Press kits

[Clint Savage]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:26:22PM -0600, Clint Savage wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 06:12:37PM +0200, Max Spevack wrote:
>> >> What's the status of press kits for Fedora 11?
>> >>
>> >> Are they designed?
>> >>
>> >> Has the content been reviewed/approved?
>> >>
>> >> When will be sending them out?
>> >
>> > Internally at Red Hat, I've worked with Caroline Kazmierski to send
>> > out Fedora <N> Preview releases on Live USB keys to a list of
>> > journalists who use them to seed major articles to be published on
>> > release day.  Those kits and their Scribus source files are found
>> > here:
>> >
>> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_press_material#Press_Kit
>> >
>> > I worked on the F10 version last time, and expected to work on the F11
>> > version this time, running it by the Art+Design team to have them do
>> > any visual repairs necessary for the best effect.  Thankfully the
>> > template is kept very generic so it doesn't need to be tweaked a lot
>> > for each release.  However, I'll be adding a bit to the content to
>> > help the journalists make the best possible use of the keys.
>> >
>> > In other news, we are moving to 4 GB keys this time instead of 2 GB,
>> > which should greatly increase the lifetime of the keys even for
>> > complete novices.
>>
>> Well,
>>
>> It might be a good idea to talk with Moixs about this as he sent me
>> some press kits as well as some to Jack.  As I understood it, they
>> were being translated already.
>
> Who's reviewed the text and design at this point?

Pretty much me and Jack since it was physical presskits.  I think
Moixs was going to put them up on our site but I think how he created
them wasn't using free tools and he was trying to find a way to do
that.  I'm not sure though, so don't quote me on that.

Cheers,

Clint