Hi everybody, The release of Jessie is approaching. Plenty of exciting things are happening in Debian every day and and its also a great time for the publicity team to remind you how to use Debian advertisement channels. First of all, you don't need to a Debian Developer to suggest something or help out! How to help ----------- - Sending DENTS to https://identi.ca/debian If you see an interesting Debian related post or discussion on Planet Debian, the mailing lists, forums, IRC or elsewhere, please post a link to the news item in the #debian-publicity IRC channel. You can highlight the news item as a DENT, in the format of: "DENT: some text here http://urlhere/". If the suggestion is good, somebody else will then ACK, and then someone with access will post it. We also need people to ack incoming proposals in a timely manner. - Adding a item to DPN If you see an interesting Debian related post or discussion, you can add a paragraph to the next edition easily. Debian members and members of the publicity team can commit directly to SVN, others can mail the list or mention things on the IRC channel #debian-publicity. If you don't have time to prepare a paragraph, you can simply add a link and a title to our TODO file. - Submitting a post to https://bits.debian.org You can submit a blog post to bits.debian.org when you have something interesting to announce that's not so serious that it needs a press release or you want to expand in a press release with data, photos, etc, in a more informal way. You also can ask for a re-post of the announce from your personal blog. To submit a blog post, you only need to write your post using markdown. You can use the template at https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debbits/debbits.git/plain/template.md and then submit it to the mailing list or contact the editors in IRC. - Adding a item to DeveloperNews If you did or heard about something Debian packagers should hear about via debian-devel-announce email but it is too short to warrant a full mail, please add a paragraph about it to the DeveloperNews wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews If there are now 5 items, congratulations, you just volunteered to send a mail to debian-devel-announce :) - Updating the debian timeline Noteworthy Debian related happenings in various categories should be added to the Debian timeline: http://timeline.debian.net/ We could use some help keeping it up to date you can file a bug report against the "debian-timeline" or send a patch as explained at: https://lists.debian.org/1413379367.7423.13.camel@debian.org - Announcements If you want to make an Press Release and there is information that may be under embargo, please, contact the press team at press@debian.org If not, just use IRC or the debian publicity mailing list. - Other social networks While Debian doesn't have official accounts in Facebook, twitter, Google+, etc. Some members of the publicity team control popular accounts in these networks. Please, join #debian-publicity and talk with us if you want to publish something in these networks. Future project ideas -------------------- There are some cool ideas floating around that we would like to see but nobody actually has time to make them happen. If you are interested in helping with any of the ideas, please join us at #debian-publicity and let's talk about it! - Some ideas for blog posts at the Debian blog. See: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debbits/debbits.git/tree/ideas.txt - Revive ThisWeekInDebian audio interviews. - Subtitle old ThisWeekInDebian interviews. - Start a regular (once per DPN?) report on things happening in IRC. - Revive the debaday project. http://debaday.debian.net/ - Move short news (dents) to www.d.o, including historical identi.ca/debian posts. - Autosync short news (dents), blog posts, announcements, DPN etc to RSS, Debian's fedmsg bus, etc. And from there to external sites such as official Debian social networking accounts or tech websites. This should also allow anyone to send posts to unofficial social networking accounts/groups. - Gather statistics and track mention of Debian on external sites to find out about Debian related news generated by other organisations (Debian in space! for example) as well as finding out how we are doing according to the Internet. Ana, on belhalf of the publicity team
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