Hey, marketing peeps - I finally subscribed to this list :) I'm trying to get some noise generated around Graphics Test Week this week. See my blog post here: http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/04/11/graphics-test-week-coming-up-april-13th-to-15th/ I posted an announcement using much the same text on the forums: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1350002 I've written up a different announcement text and sent it to several general news sites. I've sent it to osnews, linuxtoday, lwn, lxer, tuxmachines and slashdot. Any help you can give in spreading the word further - via other news sites you know, community sites, IRC, your blogs etc would be great. I'm including the announcement text below for you to use. Feel free to trim it down a bit for sites that appreciate shorter texts. Thanks, everyone! ------------------ Fedora presents...Graphics Test Week this week The Fedora project announces that this week is Graphics Test Week. This is the highlight of the Fedora 13 Test Day cycle, with Test Days for NVIDIA, ATI/AMD and Intel graphics all falling this week. Tuesday April 13th is <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-13_Nouveau";>NVIDIA Test Day</a>, Wednesday April 14th is <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-14_Radeon";>ATI/AMD Test Day</a>, and Thursday April 15th is <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-15_Intel";>Intel graphics Test Day</a>. Although these are Fedora events, the results will ultimately benefit almost all distributons: Fedora tends to use the latest versions of graphics-related components and sends all its changes upstream, so the fixes that result from these events will end up in all major distributions. Even if you're not a Fedora user, you can help Linux as a whole by contributing your test results. The testing can be done using a live image, so there's no need to install Fedora onto your system to contribute to the testing: just download a live image, write it to a CD or USB stick, boot it, and run through the tests. Comprehensive test instructions are available on the Wiki pages, and you enter your results into a table on the Wiki page; there's no need to have a Fedora wiki account to do this. QA team members and developers will be available on the IRC channels throughout each event to help with testing and triage, and to work on some of the problems immediately. The more results we get and the more bugs we expose, the better it is for everyone, so if you have time, please check out the Wiki pages and join the IRC channel - #fedora-test-day on the Freenode network - to help out! You can use <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fedora-test-day";>WebIRC</a> if you're not a regular IRC user - just click that link and you're in the chat. ------------------- -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
