This thing we call GNUstep (Re: Kickstarter was not successful... but it did help things...)

[Doc O'Leary]

In article <mailman.9701.1387492967.10748.discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>,
 Pirmin Braun <pb@intars.de> wrote:

> Maybe we can agree on putting common effort into a thing called "the 
> non-Apple ObjectiveC toolchain and runtime"  and make it more visible, 
> documented, easier to approach, install.

I would go farther and say a complete rebranding is in order.  For the 
vast majority of people, OpenStep no longer has meaning, making the 
current naming of GNUstep a bit cumbersome to explain.  My suggestion 
for this, assuming renaming the whole project isn't possible, is to turn 
it from a noun into a verb.  Here's an attempt at a catch phrase:

Step outside the walled garden.

I think something like that can most succulently express what GNUstep 
can accomplish.  You wouldn't even have to change the logo, which can be 
said to evoke the idea of going up over a wall.  From that seed, yes, 
you can absolutely branch out to all the ways that GNUstep can benefit 
developers and users who want to remain independent of Apple (for 
whatever reason).

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