Heya Sally, I’ll be working on this tomorrow and Wednesday, and I’ll be heavily recruiting help ;)
One flaw with our Sept 1. release plan was conveniently forgetting the 72 hour release vote. We are not in a position to vote today and I think the plan should be to do the vote on Sept 1. and release on Tuesday 6th, so we have a bit of a buffer with show-stoppers. Do you think this can work? Best Jan -- > On 29 Aug 2016, at 20:40, Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Friendly ping. NAK thus far from anyone ... > > In the event that you'd prefer not to issue a press release, that's perfectly > fine. > > Just be sure to include [email protected] when you go live and I'll be > happy to add it to the Apache Weekly News Round-up :-) > > Cheers, > Sally > > = = = = = > vox +1 617 921 8656 > gvox +1 646 598 4616 > skype sallykhudairi > > > From: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; ASF Marketing > & Publicity <[email protected]>; Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2016 12:24 PM > Subject: Preparing ASF press release to announce Apache CouchDB 2.0 > > Hello Apache CouchDB marketing team and PMC --I hope you are well. > > I was in touch with Jan Lehnardt about the upcoming v2.0 release and he asked > that I connect with you regarding getting the ball rolling on this. > > To that end, our next steps are for you to: > > 0) identify a primary point-of-contact; > > 1) help me draft the announcement (mostly filling in the "what is > CouchDB"/features+functionality bits --I'll do the headline/subhead/opening > paragraph) --I've started a draft at > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-bjRGoRC4i5PFIemJfsueXIuBTAEr5D_UH2DhhgajEM/edit?usp=sharing > > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-bjRGoRC4i5PFIemJfsueXIuBTAEr5D_UH2DhhgajEM/edit?usp=sharing> > : feel free to drop in content in the placeholders; > > 2) decide whether you'd like to include supporting testimonials from the > community* (and solicit them); and > > 3) work together that our formal press/public and internal/developer/list > timing is in synch (it's best to have everything roll out within a 24-48 hour > timeframe, rather than announce the project's news on your dev list or > [email protected], followed by a press release several weeks later) > > We also need to lock in the announcement date --Jan said that the drop date > is likely to be Thursday 1 September. We usually issue press releases on > Tuesdays, as that garners the best global media exposure/coverage, followed > by Mondays, then Wednesdays. Seeing that Monday 5 September is Labor Day > holiday in the US, I suggest that we consider announcing on Tuesday 6 > September. Should this be the plan, I'll need the final content locked in by > 6PM ET the night before. > > Thanks for your help. Feel fee to ping me if you need anything. I look > forward to working with you! > > Warmly, > Sally > > * Organizations supporting/using CouchDB are welcome to issue their own, > standalone "hurrah, Apache CouchEB!" blog posts/tweets/press release at that > time as well (we love it when multiple announcements come out to support a > project's activity!). We just need to make sure that we coordinate > messaging/timing/etc. > > > = = = = = > vox +1 617 921 8656 > gvox +1 646 598 4616 > skype sallykhudairi > > -- Professional Support for Apache CouchDB: https://neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/
