give fedorapeople.org and other parts of fedora some press

Marc Wiriadisastra marc at mwiriadi.id.au
Tue Nov 6 07:56:58 UTC 2007


+1
Cheers,

Marc
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 22:57 -0800, John Poelstra wrote:
> The ReleaseSummary page is great!  The screenshots really add a lot and 
> make the page interesting.
> 
> How about bragging about the new fedorapoeple infrastructure and how 
> this distinguishes Fedora from other projects at 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/ReleaseSummary ?  Also talk 
> about other improvements to our processes and infrastructure project wide?
> 
> What about expanding the Release Summary to talk about changes across 
> the Fedora project... not just what is new with the bits?  There are a 
> lot other things project wide we could trumpet as well--the art process, 
> docs improvements, infrastructure, release engineering, etc.  It could 
> even be a short summary from each group of what they accomplished during 
> the F8 cycle.
> 
> If we are going to get press attention on release day on this page... 
> why give the press more things to write about and more insight into all 
> the great things Fedora is doing in one central page?
> 
> And... I realize some in particular are likely to suggest that I do it 
> all myself because "that is how all this works, etc., etc., etc." :)  I 
> am not able to do it at this time.  So if what I am suggesting is is not 
> possible I understand.
> 
> If we planned some of this in advance we could create a serious drum 
> beat with the press and news outlets for F9--Red Hat Communication said 
> they would help, but need lead time.  This makes me think it would be a 
> good thing to put on a schedule to remind ourselves to do in advance ;-) 
>   I am able to help with that.
> 
> John
> 




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