Joe wrote ...
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014, at 01:16 PM, Rich Bowen wrote:
> > * Getting individual speakers to blog about the presentations they will
> > be giving, and mentioning these blog posts on the relevant mailing
lists.
>
> I think one of our avenues for "big" coverage pre-ApacheCon would be our
> non-ASF keynotes: Douglas Carswell and Hugh Howey.
>
> Do we know if they have any interest in doing interviews or appearances
> on podcasts, etc.?
I think that I can probably persuade them. Douglas does radio interviews
practically every week, so I expect he'll be easy to work with. I don't
know Hugh as well, but he seems pretty stoked about this talk.
>
> Pretty sure I could line up interviews / podcasts for Carswell and
> Howey, if they can make time to do them. I expect Carswell to have a
> tighter schedule, but we might be able to wrangle a few good pieces of
> coverage if he will make the time.
>
> Note that both Carswell and Howey also have twitter followings near 20K,
> so it'd be helpful even if they do no more than tweet a few times
> they'll be at ApacheCon. (Though, of course, I hope they'll do more than
> that!)
Douglas has tweeted about ApacheCon, and it was then retweeted quite a
bit. He's a Twitter aficionado, and so we can probably get a lot of
tweets out of him. Hugh less so.
>
> Rich, or whomever is our contact with Carswell and Howey, can you make
> an intro?
Will do promptly.
--Rich
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