On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 3:08 PM Julian Foad <julianf...@apache.org> wrote: > > Nathan Hartman wrote: > > Would someone who has a LinkedIn account be kind enough to post a very > > polite request for testimonials there? > > > > Also, would it be appropriate and acceptable to post this request to our > > own users@ list? > > I say yes. > > It was said recently (as well as long ago), on the Svn PMC's [1] private > mailing list, that a press release (PR) should be organized in private > so it makes a "splash" (a surprise) to maximize impact in the press. I > understand the intent behind that, from the marketing point of view, but > in this open community I place higher value on publicly involving > community members who are not members of the PMC. If that results in > lower "splash" value, that's fine: community over PR. > > Still, while publicly soliciting testimonials (and any other ideas), we > can minimize the dilution effect by collecting them and drafting the > text in private: the press shouldn't be finding the whole thing is > previously published. Let's be open that that's what we're doing, and > endeavour to include any non-PMC-members who wish to be included. (If > someone wants to be included in that part, e.g. seeing the draft, please > say and we'll work to find a satisfactory way to include you.) > > To that end, let's ask that contacts send their actual quotes to > private@ in the first place. Nathan is co-ordinating the drafting and > any privately solicited quotes there anyway, aren't you? > > - Julian > > > [1] PMC: the project management committee, roughly equals "committers", > https://www.apache.org/foundation/governance/pmcs >
Hello, We at VisualSVN want to contribute to the press release, and I will try to collect testimonials from our users. I will follow up on the results in a week or so. -- With best regards, Pavel Lyalyakin VisualSVN Team
