On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 12:28 +0000, Jonathan Roberts wrote: > > I think we should use news.fp.o extensively and integrate it into the > > front page via a RSS feed. Other major announcements can go to > > fedora-announce list. Things like publican for example. We should > > probably drop mails to journalists directly which we have not been doing > > yet. > > I was wondering more about the format they should take rather than > where - though I totally agree with your comments here :) > > I'm not sure what other formats we could consider to a press release > tbh, but I just wanted to make sure we were using the best methods at > our disposal... You are asking about format, which means: * Style of writing * Tooling (file format) For the style of writing, I agree with Rahul's suggestion of a casual tone. We seem to be going down that direction quite well. For tooling, we have a very cool and very simple to use method for writing 'press releases' that can be translated. Getting global coverage is going to require translation, at a minimum. Some announcements might need to be rewritten from scratch in other languages because of idioms, etc. Anyone feel like learning to use this press release tool, then writing up how-to on the wiki? If you don't have a CVS account you can use anonymous access: export CVS_RSH=ssh export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvs/docs cvs -z3 login cvs -z3 co press-release docs-common Actually, you might not need docs-common, I disrecall. It uses it's own custom DTD, so it has a very small set of tags. It is mainly plain text that can easily be pulled in for translation. :) The point would be to follow a rough process like this: 1. Collaborate on a list of what to highlight (ongoing) 2. Collaborate via the wiki to write up draft => ready to release 3. Copy and paste into a press-release shell 4. Finish conversion into press-release and keep these in a version control system - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, Developer Community Mgr. Dev Fu : http://developer.redhatmagazine.com Fedora : http://quaid.fedorapeople.org gpg key : AD0E0C41
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