FYI - see below. Short version is that the Marketing team will soon get to practice its collaborative press release writing skillz with Kara for the Summer of Code announcement. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code press blog Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:54:38 -0500 From: Kara Schiltz <kschiltz at redhat.com> Reply-To: kschiltz at redhat.com Organization: Red Hat To: Mel Chua <mel at redhat.com> CC: Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com>, "Paul W. Frields" <pfrields at redhat.com> This all sounds good to me. I can start working up some questions. Thanks, Kara Mel Chua wrote: > This all sounds totally awesome to me - would it be ok to forward this > thread to > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/summer-coding to keep > other GSoC organizers/mentors in the loop of what's going on with PR > for this, and to > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing so folks > interested in press release writing can lend a hand? > > Re: collaborative writing - breaking it into a list of questions > sounds great, and then maybe we can have a gobby (collaborative text > editor) sprint to weave everything together? This does sound like a > great opportunity for us to try out more collaborative-PR stuff. > > --Mel > > On 02/25/2010 05:31 PM, Kara Schiltz wrote: >> Thanks, Karsten. This is great. I'll put a placeholder on our PR >> pipeline for a GSoC press blog. I'm thinking we should be ready to go >> with a shell for the blog and then we can just plug in Fedora as a >> mentoring organization once Google makes the announcement on March 14. >> That would allow us to maximize our time during the student application >> window 3/14-3/29. >> I'm up for suggestions on how to make this a collaborative project. >> Maybe we pose a list of questions (who, what, when, where, why, etc) and >> have folks break it up and each take a question to respond to? We can >> then take those responses and weave them together into a press blog. I'm >> open to any suggestions! >> >> Thanks, >> Kara >> >> Karsten Wade wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:53:05PM -0500, Kara Schiltz wrote: >>>> Hi Karsten, >>>> >>>> Wanted to follow up on the GSoC Activity Day at SCALE last week. What >>>> are your thoughts on doing a press blog sometime in March that's >>>> focused on Google Summer of Code and what our plans are for 2010? We >>>> could also tie in more about success and participation in prior >>>> years. Let me know if enough details were fleshed out at SCALE to >>>> create a compelling press blog on GSoC. >>> >>> Kara, >>> >>> This sounds like a good idea. We need to wait until at least 14 >>> March, after Google announces mentoring organizations. We presume >>> we're natural to be on it, once we've applied, but there is never a >>> guarantee. >>> >>> I'm including Mel on this because she is working on the GSoC project >>> for the next week or so, and can help make sure we get this on the >>> GSoC part of the Fedora Calendar. We could work it up as a next >>> iteration on collaborative press release writing. :) >>> >>> Once we are sure we're in as a mentoring organization, there is a >>> window until 29 March when student applications open. This is a prime >>> time for generating publicity to target audiences: >>> >>> * Educators who can inform their students; >>> * Students to work up quality proposals; >>> * Existing community members to consider being a student in the >>> program; >>> * Existing community sub-projects who work with mentors; >>> * Industry and other mentoring organizatiokns to notice what and how >>> we're doing things while they are still happening. >>> >>> Having the 5-year report I did end of last year[1] is also good >>> material to point at. >>> >>> By focusing on the essential audiences, I can see this being useful to >>> the Fedora and JBoss efforts, all while demonstrating trusted open >>> source leadership in action. >>> >>> - Karsten >>> >>> [1] My post and the report, which was derived from an internal report: >>> >>> http://iquaid.org/2009/11/04/summer-coding-benefits-to-fedora-project-and-jboss-org/ >>> >>> >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSoC_report_2009 >>> >> >
