Re: Contribute to debian publicity

[Silvia Frank <silvia.c.frank@web.de>]

Hi Paul,

thanks for your reply!

On 11.06.2014 05:57, Paul Wise wrote:
> [CCing you, not sure if you are subscribed yet, apologies for the
> duplicate if so]
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:52 AM, Silvia Frank <silvia.c.frank@web.de> wrote:
>
> > I have heard, that you are looking for people for the pr and press work.
> Debian is always looking for new people :)
>
> > I am a Debian user since 2002 (my first version was "woody" ;-)) and in my
> > "professional life" I am working at a Linux software company in Germany,
> > where I work on the press releases/communication, website and various
> > marketing topics. And because I am a passionate Debian-user , I would like
> > to contribute a bit.
> Excellent, thanks for your interest and welcome to the team! Please
> subscribe to the list and join our IRC channel. Some more information
> about how we do things is on and linked from our wiki page:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity
>
> > I've gotten in touch with Francesca and she told me to introduce myself at
> > this mailing list and to get an account in alioth (done).
> Please login to alioth and click the request to join on this page,
> I'll approve the request.
>
> https://alioth.debian.org/projects/publicity
Done.
> > To get started and to get familiar with your tools, maybe I could help
> > writing news for the website and/ or newsletter?
> That would be great, here is some information about how DPN and the
> Debian blog work:
>
> http://bits.debian.org/pages/about.html
> https://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute
>
> > Another idea is to write short articles on Debian deployments/Debian users,
> > which we could put on the Debian website (e. g. as pdf). It could be very
> > nice for people working in Debian as well as for "outsiders to get some
> > infos about such exciting use cases of Debian like e.g. the ISS or Spotify
> > ;-). If you think, that a good idea, I could start with first drafts. Or if
> > you have other interesting Debian deployments in mind - just let me know!
> We have a collection of testimonials from organisations using Debian
> here, there are definitely some high-profile organisations using
> Debian that aren't represented there though.
>
> http://www.debian.org/users/

Oh great, I never notice this page on the Debian website until now. 
Maybe we could make a link from the frontpage to the "user site"? Is it 
possible to highlight the freshest or outstanding deployments, e.g. in a 
box at the right side beside the list? The list of deployments is very 
long and some of the entries seem very old, and I think visitors are 
more motivated to click, if they can see, which are the latest.

I think I will start writing a brief article on the debian deployment 
running at Spotify. I will send a first draft when ready.

Cheers,
Silvia
> I think articles about Debian deployments could be interesting to
> Debian contributors/users as long as they are written with the
> audience in mind and well researched.