also sprach Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> [2006.07.25.0727 +0100]: > We chatted some more about this on irc; one of the things from that > that I think is useful is looking at the press release process as: > > (1) write and edit a PR so that it says something useful I suggest for each PR, one person is in charge, who must announce the deadline well in advance and overlooks the editing process. S/he can appoint another person to take over. S/he then takes care of step 2. > (2) publish the PR somewhere other people can see it > (3) promote the PR to journalists and others as appropriate Here I suggest we establish who'll take care of what beforehand. E.g. while I can generally help with the German and Swiss markets, we should have 1-2 people responsible for Heise who take the job seriously with the long-term goal to build up a good relationship with them. The same for the other media. And I suggest we also approach the big newspapers a bit more, they occasionally have articles on Linux, so why not on Debian... > Personally, I'd really love to see (4) happen via a wiki page or > similar that keeps track of publicity Debian receives and > associates related things together, so we can see what people are > interested in and what sort of publicity mechanisms actually work > for us. Do we get www.d.o web stats for that? -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer and author: http://debiansystem.info `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system "all unser übel kommt daher, daß wir nicht allein sein können." -- schopenhauer
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