El 05/10/15 a las 23:12, Raoul Snyman escribió: > Hi folks, though mostly larjona, > > I have contact with MyBroadband.co.za, one of South Africa's biggest > technology news sites, and they're happy to give DebConf16 some > coverage. I'm not sure who or where or what to do from here, hence why > I'm mailing the list, but I wanted to put it out there so that folks > know about it. > > Let me know. > Thanks Raoul.
I have data only from past DebConf15. What has been done/can be done: 1.- When we publish announcements (CfP, for example), blog posts, news in the website, we send the URLs to the media so they mirror or write about them (this, I'm not sure how it was done last year (Did somebody sent the links to Heise.de (the German Slashdot)?). 2.- We can prepare specific material to be published in their sites, in coordination with some journalist (last year it was made with FSFE, as far as I know. I think RichiH handled that). 3.- We can offer/negotiate some kind of sponsorship for them to attend DebConf so they make a coverage themselves, first hand (last year it was made with Linux Weekly News. I think Tincho or Sponsors-team handled that). I can help in 1 and 2 for writing stuff, sending the corresponding mails as soon as the info is prepared/published... but I think the other ones (talk with them to know or prepare together the details of their coverage, think about the possibilities of attending DebConf and if they would need some sponsorship...) is better to be dealt by somebody with more experience than me, together with the person that already know the contact-journalists. (If nobody objects, it's ok for me to be CC'ed in the conversations, etc, so next year I feel more confident to cover this task in a more useful way.) Maybe we can set an agenda topic about publicity for a team meeting (I would prepare the info and decisions needed (e.g. this "local media coverage" management, in which Debian/Debconf medium we publish each news-item, who can handle @debconf microblogging, etc). I think there is no hurry for that, though; maybe talking about this before December (or the Call for talks publication) is enough. Or maybe we can just discuss/decide in the mailing list. I like both systems. Regards -- Laura Arjona https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
