Fedora Marketing Press Release in English

[Thomas Chung]

RE: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressReleases

We *really* need Press Release in English.
Any volunteer?
Regards,

[Ambassadors] Fedora Marketing Press Release in English

[Karsten Wade]

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 10:56 -0700, Thomas Chung wrote:
> RE: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressReleases
>
> We *really* need Press Release in English.
> Any volunteer?

Please see separate email about:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/ReleaseAnnouncements/TalkingPoints

Also, I'm pretty sure we want to avoid writing anything called a "Press
Release".  This has a specific meaning, format, and process run by a
team at Red Hat.  It is better for us to provide our formal announcement
and various summary pages.  Last time we tried to create a "Press
Release", and it didn't work out too well.

- Karsten

[hymno]

2007/5/22, Thomas Chung :
> RE: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressReleases
>
> We *really* need Press Release in English.
> Any volunteer?
> Regards,
> --
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>
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Give me a concise list of points to be covered and I'll write sometime nice.
In real life, that's my job. :)

regards,
herman

[Thomas Chung]

On 5/22/07, Herman Meester  wrote:
> Give me a concise list of points to be covered and I'll write sometime nice.
> In real life, that's my job. :)
>
> regards,
> herman

Thank you Herman,
It seems we already have a volunteer for the translation. :)
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/LinuxTag/LinuxTag2007/PressReleas...
Regards,

[Karsten Wade]

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 17:37 -0700, Thomas Chung wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Herman Meester  wrote:
> > Give me a concise list of points to be covered and I'll write sometime nice.
> > In real life, that's my job. :)
> >
> > regards,
> > herman
>
> Thank you Herman,
> It seems we already have a volunteer for the translation. :)
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/LinuxTag/LinuxTag2007/PressReleas...

Sorry, I'm confused what we are discussing here.

There is the "Press Release", produced by Red Hat's PR department.

There is the "Release Announcement."  This is *not* translated, it is
re-written fresh in each language, using the talking points:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/ReleaseAnnouncements

There is the "Release Summary", which draws from Docs/Beats/OverView,
and is pointed to by the Press Release and Release Announcement:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F7ReleaseSummary

That's it.  So, what are you proposing we write in English and get
translated?  As there is none of the above that are supposed to be
translated ....

- Karsten

[Thomas Chung]

On 5/23/07, Karsten Wade  wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 17:37 -0700, Thomas Chung wrote:
> > On 5/22/07, Herman Meester  wrote:
> > > Give me a concise list of points to be covered and I'll write sometime nice.
> > > In real life, that's my job. :)
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > herman
> >
> > Thank you Herman,
> > It seems we already have a volunteer for the translation. :)
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/LinuxTag/LinuxTag2007/PressReleas...
>
> Sorry, I'm confused what we are discussing here.

Hi Karsten,
I was referring to the Press Release for LinuxTag[1] and the Press
Release for FUDCon Berlin[2] posted by  FabianAffolter.
Since it's only available in German at the time of posting, I was
requesting a volunteer who can translate into English.
Sorry for the confusion.
Regards,

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/LinuxTag/LinuxTag2007/PressReleas...
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressReleases

[Karsten Wade]

On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 12:42 -0700, Thomas Chung wrote:
> I was referring to the Press Release for LinuxTag[1] and the Press
> Release for FUDCon Berlin[2] posted by  FabianAffolter.
> Since it's only available in German at the time of posting, I was
> requesting a volunteer who can translate into English.

Ah!  That is very different, thanks for the clarification.

Are the Ambassadors aware of this nifty little module?

cvs.fedoraproject.org:/cvs/docs/press-release

It uses XML but a very small subset if tags, defined in its own DTD.
This makes it very easy for anyone to use.  It also lets us output the
press release into POT files for easy translation using the same tools
used in the rest of the distro.

There is an 'ambassadors' group or something similar, right?  We can get
Infrastructure to give read-write-create for that group to the
'press-release' module.  It contains both the tools for writing press
releases and an archive of press releases.

Currently, the README is full of warnings to not use the tools.  We'll
have to check with Paul and Tommy to see if the tools are ready for
(beta) usage.  Should be ...

- Karsten