On 9/27/2011 7:12 AM, Donald Harbison wrote:
Thanks Shane.
To be clear, Apache policy on podling branding[1] states:
"*Podling has been approved for incubation, podling has launched public
mailing lists, and podling has dropped code into repository*: A podling*MUST
* now be called *Apache "Podling-Name"* (see
Naming<http://incubator.apache.org/guides/branding.html#Naming>
below).
A podling and affiliated persons can issue press releases that reference the
podling, but cannot issue press releases with the specific intent of
announcing the Podling. Podling can conduct informal pr activities, such as
media outreach, blog publicity, etc. The ASF will not issue any press
releases for any podling at this stage. However, the Public Relations
Committee *MUST* review any releases by affiliated organizations or groups
to ensure they comply with these branding guidelines."
So there is no requirement to run our blogs or media outreach efforts
through Apache press office before posting, correct?
Correct - now that infra has created a blogs.a.o for the podling, you're
free to use that directly to communicate to the larger world as the
podling sees fit. Indeed, I agree we need a committed group of
volunteers to push content to that blog more regularly, so we can better
tell our own story (instead of having others tell it).
The issue with coordinating with press@ is partly about any official
"press releases" (i.e. on newswires) and mostly any coordination or
responses with journalists or third party major technology blogs.
- Shane
The statement about press releases by affiliated organizations is clear
enough.
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/don
[1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/branding.html
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Shane Curcuru<[email protected]> wrote:
I'd recommend that folks contact the Apache press team in the future if
there are articles in the press that the project has issues with (or, things
we'd like to highlight in @TheASF or the Foundation blog):
http://www.apache.org/press/
[email protected] is a privately archived list, and has people with
experience with most of the major technology journalists and bloggers out
there who cover open source. It's usually more effective to work with
press@ on material corrections to news stories than trying to work with
journalists you don't know personally.
- Shane
