On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 03:53:49PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > That's the only reason I commented on it. The fact that the first mention of > it on debian-publicity, was also Cc'd to ZDNet seemed wrong to me. In future In fact, it would be better to send it to the press and send a copy (not a cc or bcc to avoid group replies / crosspostings) to debian-somelist. We may bear this in mind for the next time. > I think we need to give people a chance to comment on things that are going to > be sent out in the name of Debian, just to ensure that as many people as > possible get to proof read them, and so reduce the chance of us looking > foolish in public. Ideally you're right. Part of it was my fault who is swamped with a special job until tonight and can't coordinate other things well during this time. I haven't realized that the mail got only to Ian and myself. Sorry for that. > > I am hoping to slide into a press speaker role for Debian and also write > > some of the policy regarding press contacts. > > In that case, I suggest you are given an alias of something like > <spokesman@debian.org>, only to be used for sending out official press > releases. Also, I think you should have a PGP key to be used only for press > releases, tagged with the spokesman address, with which you should sign all > official press releases, so there can be no confusion about what we're all > looking at. > > Another thing that made me suspicious is that I couldn't find any reference to > you on things like the maintainer list, so before you mail any other press > releases we need to make sure that the .... Nils has submitted a request as maintainer parallel to the spokesperson thing. > [ I just noticed that I've been Non-PC above --- but ``spokesperson'' > an such an ugly word IMHO. How about <speaker@debian.org>, as in > ``The Speaker of the House'' in Parliament ] > > .... ``speaker'' is mentioned on the ``People behind Debian'' page at the very > least. > > We should probably also have a web page devoted to press releases, stating > how one can tell if something was really sent out officially, stating our > policy on issuing press releases, and recording all past press releases, > open letters etc. Hope we'll establish this. Sent press releases should be available already. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * joey@infodrom.north.de * 26129 Oldenburg / / Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ or in front of a mirror /
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