On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:47:50PM -0700, Ryan Rix wrote: > On Tue 27 April 2010 1:46:31 pm Paul W. Frields wrote: > > Rahul helpfully reminded us that we did *not* do a 'whimsical' release > > announcement last release. I agree we shouldn't restart that, either, > > and any contrary advice I gave at the last meeting was wrong, wrong, > > wrong! :-) > > > > Ryan, it would be better to work with Rahul on the following wiki > > page, which we'll use as the canonical release announcement text for > > everywhere, including our mailing lists. > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_announcement > > Sorry for the delay in catching this, quite the deluge today; That sounds > like a good plan, and I'm with ya on it! I've never really got the whimsical > edge when it comes to writing long things. I can be witty in short bursts, > but that is about it :) Great. Anyone can help you and Rahul with this, Ryan. The announcement should be simple and not overloaded with a lot of general information about Fedora. Making the text TL;DR won't help us much on the marketing front IMHO. So for instance, this is not a place to write about the core values of the Fedora Project. The announcement is similar to a press release and simply covers the actual release of Fedora 13 and a selection of major changes since the previous release. The announcement goes out in a couple forms: * our official announcement mailing lists in plaintext form, where it's picked up by a lot of community press outlets * linked from the Red Hat press blog In service of the first bullet, I rearranged the text toward the end to resemble a press release, with press contact info at the tail. That should be where reporters generally look for that information, since it's customary for formal press releases. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
