I dont have specific contacts, but I think that it would be a good thing
to get the attention of the following for this release, especially due
to that they may have written Gnucash off (possibly);
a) distro's - I know we have the RedHat and Debian guy's paying
attention to us already but it'd be good to get the word out to make
sure GnuCash is once again included by default in as many distro's as
possible
b) online/offline computing magazines - would be great to get an updated
reviews of the release in Linux Journal or some other sites such as
OSNews (as many as possible)
c) General public - not quite sure how to reach out to people here, but
perhaps we could do that through sites like gnomedesktop.org and
freshmeat and possibly slashdot?
Anyway the goal in my mind should be getting out the word as widely as
possible that we are now gnome2/gtk2 and have made some advances in user
functionality in getting there too.
Chris
Matt Townsend wrote:
I don't think there's anything wrong with having both a standard announcement
and a press release--depending on where you send things. I'm not sure the
press release, especially something with quotes, would make much sense posted
on the site's main page. However, if you want to send something off to the
people at Redhat, SuSE, and the various linux and computing magazines/sites,
this would be better.
Do you already have contacts at any of these places?
Are you aiming to get articles published about 2.0.0? Do you want to get the
attention of the main distros? Or are you trying to announce the release to
the general public, e.g. site visitors? The answers to these questions help
determine just what kind of press release you need.
MT
On Sunday 21 May 2006 8:34 pm, Chris Lyttle wrote:
Way to go, this is just the kind of press release GnuCash needs. I'm all
for making this the default announcement, the stuff I put together for
the releases really doesn't do much more than announce bugfixes.
Chris
Christian Stimming wrote:
Am Sonntag, 21. Mai 2006 20:59 schrieb Matt Townsend:
I uploaded a draft onto the wiki.
Great! This is way cool! Now we "only" need to fill in the actual
content! Thanks a lot for this suggestion, and I guess we will add
suggestions for the missing parts quite soon.
@Developers: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Announcement_2.0.0 is worth a
good laugh in its current state :-) but Matt obviously made it very clear
what kind of details we need to add.
Any suggestions for new features that are newsworthy should be added to
the list at the wiki page.
Christian
On Sunday 21 May 2006 8:35 am, you wrote:
Hi Matt,
yes, that would be absolutely great! For the developers, it is a quite
"weak side" for all of them to write up something really interesting.
I would suggest to collect any notes and ideas in the wiki page,
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Announcement_2.0.0
I hope we can provide the technical details quite soon, so that an
interesting text can be compiled in time.
Regards,
Christian
Am Sonntag, 21. Mai 2006 09:14 schrieben Sie:
Christian,
I saw your posting about a press release for 2.0.0. I have a
journalism degree, and I'd be happy to help draft something "newsy" in
English about the milestone version--once technical details about the
version were provided (e.g. changelog, major feature additions, et
cetera).
Regards,
Matt Townsend
Central Florida, U.S.
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