Rahul helpfully reminded us that we did *not* do a 'whimsical' release announcement last release. I agree we shouldn't restart that, either, and any contrary advice I gave at the last meeting was wrong, wrong, wrong! :-)
Ryan, it would be better to work with Rahul on the following wiki page, which we'll use as the canonical release announcement text for everywhere, including our mailing lists.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_announcement
Paul,
I would like to work for this as well if there are no objections from the people.
I would like also to know if we can speculate about the audience who will be reading this and if it should be aimed for those segments.
In addition in which format and support are we going to use it? Using any support media?
nelson
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 16:46 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Rahul helpfully reminded us that we did *not* do a 'whimsical' release announcement last release. I agree we shouldn't restart that, either, and any contrary advice I gave at the last meeting was wrong, wrong, wrong! :-)
Ryan, it would be better to work with Rahul on the following wiki page, which we'll use as the canonical release announcement text for everywhere, including our mailing lists.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_announcement
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On Tue 27 April 2010 1:46:31 pm Paul W. Frields wrote:
Rahul helpfully reminded us that we did *not* do a 'whimsical' release announcement last release. I agree we shouldn't restart that, either, and any contrary advice I gave at the last meeting was wrong, wrong, wrong! :-)
Ryan, it would be better to work with Rahul on the following wiki page, which we'll use as the canonical release announcement text for everywhere, including our mailing lists.
Sorry for the delay in catching this, quite the deluge today; That sounds like a good plan, and I'm with ya on it! I've never really got the whimsical edge when it comes to writing long things. I can be witty in short bursts, but that is about it :)
Ryan
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:47:50PM -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
On Tue 27 April 2010 1:46:31 pm Paul W. Frields wrote:
Rahul helpfully reminded us that we did *not* do a 'whimsical' release announcement last release. I agree we shouldn't restart that, either, and any contrary advice I gave at the last meeting was wrong, wrong, wrong! :-)
Ryan, it would be better to work with Rahul on the following wiki page, which we'll use as the canonical release announcement text for everywhere, including our mailing lists.
Sorry for the delay in catching this, quite the deluge today; That sounds like a good plan, and I'm with ya on it! I've never really got the whimsical edge when it comes to writing long things. I can be witty in short bursts, but that is about it :)
Great. Anyone can help you and Rahul with this, Ryan.
The announcement should be simple and not overloaded with a lot of general information about Fedora. Making the text TL;DR won't help us much on the marketing front IMHO. So for instance, this is not a place to write about the core values of the Fedora Project. The announcement is similar to a press release and simply covers the actual release of Fedora 13 and a selection of major changes since the previous release.
The announcement goes out in a couple forms:
* our official announcement mailing lists in plaintext form, where it's picked up by a lot of community press outlets
* linked from the Red Hat press blog
In service of the first bullet, I rearranged the text toward the end to resemble a press release, with press contact info at the tail. That should be where reporters generally look for that information, since it's customary for formal press releases.
marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org
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