One thing that would be handy in these situations would be a "review" that accomanied the release notes. You highlight the product, the way you wish a journalist would, and send it out. If you answer the recurring mistakes (e.g. they evaluate it as a production distro, they assume mulimedia issues are shallower than they are, etc). You write the spotlights from with the position you want Fedora to maintain (i.e. from and for the point of view of the appopriate user.) We can tell people why DVD and MP3 support is gone, point out alternative technologies, or anit-patent petitions, and even link to sites that have workaround instructions. Even safer, we can advise they "Google it". It's not fair to say all journalists are lazy, but enough of them are lazy and/or sloppy (or have editors/fact checkers less familiar with the material than they are) to make this worthwhile, since they will cut paste and paraphrase this into a "story" the way they do with press releases on slow news days. For those that don't, it's very easy for us to post a link to this "release review" and the tertiary, release notes and FAQs in the comments of any article that takes the wrong approach. --jeremy -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
