[ubuntu-marketing] Press releases .....
Hi there A few days ago, Laura Czajkowski made the suggestion that Ubuntu Advertising and/or Ubuntu Marketing might look at preparing and sending press releases to appropriate media. Since then, I've been looking at what happens at present. All I can find are spasmodic releases from Canonical which sometimes reflect the state of play with the latest Ubuntu release. Do any of you know of anything more than this? If not, could I suggest a sub group committed to circulating a regular media news letter (two or three times a year). I'll be happy to receive contributions, collate them and write it up, then circulate it. It would need to target computer magazines, press generally, radio and TV. Are there any opinions? And any volunteers to feed news items into this? Kind regards, Barry. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Press releases .....
On 02/08/11 12:14, Barry Drake wrote: Hi there A few days ago, Laura Czajkowski made the suggestion that Ubuntu Advertising and/or Ubuntu Marketing might look at preparing and sending press releases to appropriate media. Since then, I've been looking at what happens at present. All I can find are spasmodic releases from Canonical which sometimes reflect the state of play with the latest Ubuntu release. What I suggested doing was doing something other than waiting for stuff to be paid for, you can write on anything perhaps how Ubuntu is being used in other places, and get journalists to pick up on items. Perhaps leaving the release announcements to Canonical as that's their area. Laura -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/czajkowski http://www.lczajkowski.com Skype: lauraczajkowski -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Press releases .....
On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 12:14 +0100, Barry Drake wrote: Hi there A few days ago, Laura Czajkowski made the suggestion that Ubuntu Advertising and/or Ubuntu Marketing might look at preparing and sending press releases to appropriate media. Since then, I've been looking at what happens at present. All I can find are spasmodic releases from Canonical which sometimes reflect the state of play with the latest Ubuntu release. Do any of you know of anything more than this? If not, could I suggest a sub group committed to circulating a regular media news letter (two or three times a year). I'll be happy to receive contributions, collate them and write it up, then circulate it. It would need to target computer magazines, press generally, radio and TV. Are there any opinions? And any volunteers to feed news items into this? Hi Barry, I'm happy to sign up for review if it would help. In terms of content, there are the release notes that are coming out with the milestone announcements that probably have useful fodder to be culled for this sort of thing. And we do have 2 major development releases a year as well as 2 LTS point releases ;) The Release Overview section and some of the highlevel overview information, in particular. See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/ReleaseNotes Also, we're in process of putting together A3 release, but the A1 and A2 milestone release notes from Oneiric, can be reviewed. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/TechnicalOverview/Alpha1 [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/TechnicalOverview/Alpha2 We try to highlight whats making a first appearance for developers, but it might be interesting to the wider audience as well? On a related topic, if there is a contact or two interested in participating in proofreading the announces before they go out, I'd very much appreciate a set of editorial eyes on them a day before each milestone release. Please let me know if there are volunteers? Thanks, Kate (Ubuntu Release Manager) -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Press releases .....
On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 13:11 +0100, Laura Czajkowski wrote: Perhaps leaving the release announcements to Canonical as that's their area. I think if Canonical can engadge with the LoCo teams and other community people, we could legally take their announcements and publish them to local media and other contacts we might have. At the moment, I don't know if it's possible to re-submit Canonical's official announcements and I'm not sure if Canonical would be pleased or helpful with community involvement. Otherwise, the community does make announcements, it just doesn't submit them to news media. Something that I think it has a right to do as citizen journalists alone (let alone fellow developers) ;-) Best Regards, Martin Owens -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
