Hi Roberto,
I'm in full agreement with you about sending out press releases every
time a major version of Plone is released. I would also suggest sending
out press releases every time there is a major conference or symposium.
We also discussed inviting journalists to come to the conferences (why
weren't there any at this year's conference?) and making it easy for
journalists to write stories about Plone. This could mean making a
plone.org/press area with press contact persons, logos, photos and
elevator pitches / soundbites that journalists could use to construct a
story about Plone.
Very interesting to hear your comments about partner networks. I suspect
that this will be hard for the Plone Foundation to do, since these
networks are typically set up to work with a commercial vendor, not with
a non-profit foundation. I think it's more likely that individual Plone
vendors could join for example the Redhat network.
Nate
Roberto Allende wrote:
Hello
I was reading yesterday tickets and i'd like to mention two issues
IHMO are very important:
1. Press Releases
2. Partnership networks
1. Press Releases
We should have someone in charge of writing press releases. I think
it's very important the Foundation releases a press release everytime
there's a new version, an important event and so on. Ideally the press
release would be written by a journalist, so they're usually contacted
with other journalists and medias. I believe this cannot be done by
volunteer job and it would be great if the foundation can pay a
freelancer journalist. Probably we could contact other open source
foundations, such as FSF and ask if we can work together, asking them
how are they solving this issue.
2. Partnership networks
Probably this should be discussed inside Zea Partners, but i found
many cases where gov and corps choose Alfresco, just because is in the
Red Hat partnership network: http://rhx.redhat.com/rhx/catalog/index.jspa
I already contacted them, but i'm not sure about their interest of
having Plone there.. anyway, we could identify Partnetship networks
and try to get there (probably Novell has one, and so on). I'll could
keep moving this, but in some point i would need "official" suport.
I hope you believe are goods ideas.
Kind Regards
r.
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