On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
Hi all, A while back at a mktg meeting we talked about getting in touch with the staff/editors at various Linux and computing magazines to ask how we can make their lives easier, how we can make it easier for them to find information about Fedora which can serve as the basis of a story. I think this kind of dialog could be very productive, certainly I had a good response from Joe (can't remember surname) from Linux Magazine following a conversation along these lines. I've posted a draft of a potential e-mail that could be sent out, but I want to get people's opinions and permission before I do this!
You go. This is brilliant stuff. --g
--------------- Hi there, I'm writing to you on behalf of the Fedora Project to ask how we can help make your life a little easier. Obviously as one of the leading GNU/Linux distributions, $publication has covered us a number of times in the past, and will continue to do so in the future. What we'd like to do is find out how you gather information for the stories you write, and how that process can be improved. As a starting point, we'd like to point you at our feature list. Every release this is created and maintained by our developers to provide information about the features they're working on - both technical implementation details, and also details on the potential impact for end-users can be found here. We hope that this will not only improve our internal co-ordination, but allow members of the press to get an early look at technologies that will be significant over the coming months. It can be found at the following web address: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/#/FeatureList Where # is the number of the release you're interested in. One other important piece of documentation that you might like to be aware of, and which might stand to make your life a little easier, is that with every development release (alpha, beta etc) we create a single page set of Release Notes that detail how the features detailed on the feature list are coming together at that particular point in time. This can be found at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/#/$MileStone/ReleaseNotes Where # is the number of the release you're interested in, and $MileStone is the formal title of the mile stone you're interested in, such as alpha or beta. I hope you find this information useful. If you have any suggestions on how you'd like to see these resources improved or what new resources you'd like to see created (or any other reason, for that matter), please don't hesitate to contact us and we'll see what we can do to help. Yours kindly, ----------------------------------------- Best wishes, Jon
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