Dear Shirish, Sorry for the top posting but the info you provided is splitted in different mails and I was not sure how to reply inline properly.
>From the publicity team this is what I can say about the DebConf coverage: * I expect to do publicity coverage of DebConf18, in a similar fashion that we did last year (bits.d.o, debconf website, micronews, the closing announcement, and DPN highlighting blogposts related). * I still didn't talk with SZ Lin about the options to spread the word in local media but I hope to talk soon * I have two drafts for blogposts in bits.d.o about sponsors, to be published soon (WIP, in touch with the corresponding company/org). May I ask you to please hold on your own (or It's FOSS) posts until we publish in bits? * Similar proposals than the "It's FOSS" one, that I remember we (press@) have received in the past, have been redirected to [email protected]. * There have been news items published in a coordinated way in both the Debian channels and other (local) channels (e.g. with broadband.co.za in DebConf16). This has been done pro bono for both parts (at least since I can remember (Debconf15 on) or maybe in change the media has been given a booth to spread the word during the conference. I am not aware of the 'terms' of actual media partnership of (other) past DefConfs, but in any case I guess that should be dealt by registration@ and/or sponsors@ Cheers -- Laura Arjona Reina https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona El 12/04/18 a las 15:42, shirish शिरीष escribió: > Reply in-line :- > > On 11/04/2018, Gunnar Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Shirish, >> > > Hi Gunnar, > >> shirish शिरीष dijo [Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 03:34:20AM +0530]: > > <snipped> > >> >> Ok, having been explicitly pointed to, I guess I must answer ;-) >> >> I don't have much of a clue of what being a "media partner" really >> entails. I guess it depends on the type of coverage itsfoss.com >> wants. I guess a good way to find out what would this mean for you is >> to talk with other people who have been -officially or not, both from >> the media outlet in question and from Debian- in a similar position; >> Antoine Beaupré is one of them, as he covered DC17 for LWN. >> > > I know Antione, we have talked before on various topics. I will follow it up > with him as well. > > I have followed some of his articles on lwn.net but lwn.net doesn't really > make it easy to follow articles from a particular author > > https://itsfoss.com/author/shirish/ something like this from lwn.net would > have been nice but it hasn't happened yet and don't think it will happen > soon. I have asked them (i.e. lwn.net) earlier as I do like articles > of few specific > authors and often miss some of them but that's something they need to work at. > >> I believe we will all be happy if DebConf is covered in more >> media. What does itsfoss want from you besides a couple of articles? >> What are they giving you or Debian? What are they expecting to get >> back? Do they need to be advertised in any way in connection to us? >> > > I have made and shared an initial article with them. I do get a bit of > honorarium per article, nothing much but works for me as a referral for work. > > For Debian it would be more audience . For quite long people have this > fear of Debian being only for geeks, so with more exposure we hope to > reduce that myth by sharing more news, views etc. Also we do have a > fantastic artist (although I may be biased here) who has done some > nice doodles about Debian in the past. I don't think we can ever > have enough doodles of Debian or any of the sub-projects in > the Debian universe/umbrella. > > Now quoting abhishek directly - > > As the media partner, we will write at least two articles. One > announcing the event so that more people are aware of the event and > the event can get more registration and exposure. The second article > will be published after the event is concluded. A summary of event, > talks and highlights. This way, again, more people would know about > the event. > > These articles will be shared several times with our readers, email > subscribers and social media followers (around 300K in total). If we > attend the event, we'll also share the events and its happenings live > on social media channels. If there are enterprises participating in > the event, we can also interview/cover a few if they fit our reader > base. This way those enterprises will get more exposure and more value > by participating in the event. > > Basically, we'll do everything in our capacity to make more people > aware of the event and thus contributing to the success of the event. > If the organizers expect something else from us, they can pitch in > their suggestions and we will follow if it's feasible. > > What we need in return is not much. They should mention us as their > media partners on their website, event presentations (if possible) and > email communications about the event. If they want to send swags and > other merchandise, it's totally up to the organizers but not mandatory > from our side. > > /quote > > I hope this gives a bit of an idea of what we want to do. >
