3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, As I recently noted in my email about release notes, GNOME 3.8 is due for release on March 27. That gives us about a month to get ready on the marketing side. This includes: * Release notes * Press release * Update gnome.org (change the banner on the homepage, update the screenshots on

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I can do the press release, I did part of it last time. I'll figure out how to get the quotations. We need some press contacts. I know that Vincent has volunteered to be our media guy. Vincent, can you handle media questions? We have one volunteer for videos by the way, just need to get a

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Karen Sandler
On Thu, February 28, 2013 5:20 am, Allan Day wrote: Hi all, As I recently noted in my email about release notes, GNOME 3.8 is due for release on March 27. That gives us about a month to get ready on the marketing side. This includes: * Release notes * Press release * Update gnome.org

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: I can do the press release, I did part of it last time. I'll figure out how to get the quotations. That would be great, Sri! First thing to do is to figure out who we want to approach. We need some press contacts. I know that Vincent has

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Allan Day
Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: I loved how for 3.4 we prepared advance press kits for me to send out. Me too. It would be so awesome if we could do that again, but it would involve pushing up some of the drafting deadlines. Providing screenshots and advance access to the release notes

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Karen Sandler
On Thu, February 28, 2013 1:17 pm, Allan Day wrote: Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: I can do the press release, I did part of it last time. I'll figure out how to get the quotations. That would be great, Sri! First thing to do is to figure out who we want to approach. OK!

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Flavia Weisghizzi
Please keep me in consideration, if I may help in some way I'll be very happy to offer my experience as journalist :) Flavia Il 28/02/2013 19:23, Karen Sandler ha scritto: On Thu, February 28, 2013 1:17 pm, Allan Day wrote: Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: I can do the press

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Brett Legree
Working away here at the responses to the interview questions (Hi Flavia! Expect my reply by tomorrow morning at the very latest) as well as my section for the Annual, should have that tightened up by the weekend. -Brett On Feb 28, 2013 1:30 PM, Flavia Weisghizzi fla...@weisghizzi.it wrote:

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Vincent Untz
Le jeudi 28 février 2013, à 13:23 -0500, Karen Sandler a écrit : On Thu, February 28, 2013 1:17 pm, Allan Day wrote: Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: We need some press contacts. I know that Vincent has volunteered to be our media guy. Vincent, can you handle media questions?

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread alex diavatis
Hello, If there is something specific I can help with, please let me know! - alex On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Le jeudi 28 février 2013, à 13:23 -0500, Karen Sandler a écrit : On Thu, February 28, 2013 1:17 pm, Allan Day wrote: Sriram Ramkrishna

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Le jeudi 28 février 2013, à 13:23 -0500, Karen Sandler a écrit : On Thu, February 28, 2013 1:17 pm, Allan Day wrote: Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: We need some press contacts. I know that Vincent has

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Sure, Alex that would be great. You actually have a pretty good grasp of what's going on as well. I'm somewhat amazed at how well you monitor all the bits. Perhaps we could do some interviews or something at your site? You're doing a good job focusing on some of release aspects too. sri On

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread alex diavatis
Hello Sri! On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: Sure, Alex that would be great. You actually have a pretty good grasp of what's going on as well. I'm somewhat amazed at how well you monitor all the bits. Perhaps we could do some interviews or

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 02/28/2013 09:03 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org mailto:vu...@gnome.org wrote: I can certainly help and dedicate some time to this, but I think we need more people: I might not have the bandwidth to handle

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Andreas it is! I'm have never talked with the press. I should probably like take a course or something. They have that at work. On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: On 02/28/2013 09:03 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:59 AM,

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Fabiana Simões
I'm very happy to help to. Please, let me know if there's anything I can do :) ~Fabiana On 02/28/2013 04:52 PM, Brett Legree wrote: Working away here at the responses to the interview questions (Hi Flavia! Expect my reply by tomorrow morning at the very latest) as well as my section for

Re: 3.8 Release Planning

2013-02-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
So tuesday is our work session day, still interested in doing an hour of marketing work at the same time? Karen and I could work on the press release and others could get together and work on the other release notes? What do people think of that? sri On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Fabiana