I'd be willing to go on the record wearing my official Pivotal hat if you guys feel it would help.
Thanks, Roman. On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]> wrote: > Sally runs the PR for ASF, and I asked her how we should go about > announcing to the world, see my question and her answer below. > > It is a relatively low effort to make an announcement, which I think also > goes out as a Press Release. We should leverage this resource as much as we > can to draw in fresh blood... > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, May 4, 2015 at 5:14 PM > Subject: Re: New TLP > To: Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]> > > > Hey Niclas --thanks so much for your note. It's great to hear from you, as > always. > > Of course, I'm happy to help. > > We often solicit quotes/testimonials from the Apache community to > demonstrate the project's robustness and breadth of deployment. > > TLP announcements have ranged from having single quotes (VP of the project) > to several perspectives from the PMC to multiple endorsements from the > community. http://s.apache.org/L0H is an example that you may find useful > in terms of format. > > Organizations supporting/using Zest are welcome to issue their own, > standalone "hurrah, Apache Zest!" press release at that time as well (we > love it when multiple announcements come out to support a podling's > graduation!). We just need to make sure that we coordinate > messaging/timing/etc. > > So our next steps here are for you (and the PMC) to: > > 1) help me draft the announcement (mostly filling in the "what is > Zest"/features+functionality bits --I'll take care of the headline, etc.); > 2) decide whether you'd like to include supporting testimonials from the > community (and solicit them); and > 3) work together that our formal press/public and internal/developer/list > timing is in synch (it's best to have everything roll out within the next > week, rather than announce the project's graduation on your dev list or > [email protected], followed by a press release several weeks later) > > > Re: announcement date --we usually issue press releases on Tuesdays, as > that garners the best global media exposure/coverage, followed by Mondays, > then Wednesdays. So in this instance, the earliest we can issue the press > release would be Monday 11 May. > > Thanks in advance for your help. Feel fee to ping me if you need anything. > I look forward to working with you! > > Warmest regards, > Sally > > ________________________________ > From: Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]> > To: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, 3 May 2015, 20:23 > Subject: New TLP > > > > Hi, long time... I hope you are doing well again... > > > I am sure that I am supposed to use some mail alias, but not sure which > one... > > > I don't know if you noticed that Apache Zest was created without going > through the Incubator ;-) A complete project from the outside, straight > into TLP. A little bit of new territory, and I wonder if that is newsworthy > in itself. > > > > Otherwise, we intend to make a 2.1 release in June or so, and wonder if you > have pointers to "good announcements" and other docs to educate ourselves > on how to go about it. > > > > Cheers > > -- > > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer > http://zest.apache.org - New Energy for Java > > > > -- > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer > http://zest.apache.org - New Energy for Java
