Hi all, Sri and I are wondering whether we should not do a dedicated press release for the upcoming 3.18 release [1], and wanted to get some opinions.
There are a couple of reasons we're thinking of not doing a dedicated press release: 1. The main body of the press release repeats information that's in the announcement news post [eg. 3, 4] and release notes. We do a lot of rewriting the same information! 2. We can't remember any journalist ever actually making use of the third party quotations that we include (please let us know if you can think of examples!) I'm wondering if it's overkill for an event that happens every six months... My personal feeling is that we should frame this discussion around the question: what do we want to provide journalists with? We can then fit our various posts around the content. Currently we provide: * Written summary of the main features * Release video * Release notes * Screenshots pack * Quotes from project members * Quotes from third party individuals Is it reasonable to drop the last item? Is there anything else that should be on the list? Thanks, Allan [1] Some background: for every release of a new version, we do a press release. The purpose is to provide journalists with materials to write articles. It includes some blurb and factual details about the release, quotations from a couple of people inside the project, and a couple of quotations from prominent individuals or partner organisations (you can see a list of who we have quoted in the past here [2]). It also has a link to the screenshot pack we usually put together. [2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/PressReleases/PressReleaseQuotes [3] https://www.gnome.org/news/2015/03/gnome-3-16-released-2/ [4] https://www.gnome.org/news/2014/09/gnome-3-14-released/ _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
