Re: Website - News and Press Releases

2010-02-22 Thread Lucas Rocha
>> Hi, >> >> I've the necessary content updates to allow us to post press releases >> on the new website. They are under a 'Press/Media' folder in the >> Contact section. >> >> http://website-editors.gnome.org/contact/press/releases >> &g

Re: Website - News and Press Releases

2010-02-22 Thread Lucas Rocha
Hi Zonker, 2010/2/22 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier : > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Lucas Rocha wrote: >> I started importing the existing press releases to our CMS. So far, >> I've migrated all press releases from 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. Need >> volunteers

Re: Website - News and Press Releases

2010-02-22 Thread Darton Williams
Imported everything back to 2001; the publishing date dropdown doesn't go back any further. All new imports are still unpublished and do not have short URLs. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Lucas Rocha wrote: > Hi, > > I've the necessary content updates to allow us to post

Re: Website - News and Press Releases

2010-02-22 Thread Darton Williams
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Lucas Rocha wrote: > Hi, > > I've the necessary content updates to allow us to post press releases > on the new website. They are under a 'Press/Media' folder in the > Contact section. > > http://website-editors.gnome.org/

Re: Website - News and Press Releases

2010-02-22 Thread Darton Williams
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Lucas Rocha wrote: > Hi, > > I've the necessary content updates to allow us to post press releases > on the new website. They are under a 'Press/Media' folder in the > Contact section. > > http://website-editors.gnome.org/

Re: Website - News and Press Releases

2010-02-21 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Lucas Rocha wrote: > I started importing the existing press releases to our CMS. So far, > I've migrated all press releases from 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. Need > volunteers to finish this as there still quite many press releases to > import. An

Website - News and Press Releases

2010-02-19 Thread Lucas Rocha
Hi, I've the necessary content updates to allow us to post press releases on the new website. They are under a 'Press/Media' folder in the Contact section. http://website-editors.gnome.org/contact/press/releases I started importing the existing press releases to our CMS. So far

Re: Press releases

2006-03-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
> This is now on the wiki at: > http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirteen/PressRelease > > thanks to the excellent suggestion of jeff. I'm going to do an editing run later tonight (want to fix up some clunky wording and s/features/benefits/ in certain places), and team up with Corey online tomorro

Re: Press releases

2006-03-14 Thread Corey Burger
This is now on the wiki at: http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirteen/PressRelease thanks to the excellent suggestion of jeff. Corey -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: Press releases

2006-03-13 Thread Steve George
Hi,Reads well to me and it's got nice clear explanations of the important changes.Suggestions:- Even easier configuration+ Easier configuration, so that it's straightforward to set-up the desktop's behaviour to match a users preferences. - a new so-called Deskbar will integrate into the desktop pan

Re: Press releases

2006-03-13 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi, Corey! I think, this is very good. It's not a lightweight as your first version, and it's much better than my own draft. I really like it! You may like to consider a few additional ideas if time permits it: * A title would be nice. * I'm unsure if 'brand-new' is appropriate for Ekiga. I li

Re: Press releases

2006-03-13 Thread Corey Burger
Hello all, Ok, rip it apart once more. Most of the text is now Claus', but I have restructured as per Quim's suggestion. cheers, Corey gnome 2.14 press release Description: Binary data -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-lis

Re: Press releases

2006-03-11 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:36:23 -0800 "Corey Burger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wow. I wouldn't read either of those press releases. As printed press > releases, maybe, if forced. > You would read the first paragraph, trying to find out whether this might be so

Re: Press releases

2006-03-10 Thread Quim Gil
As a journalist, I have to say that the best press release combines Claus notes with all its lenghts with some improvements taken from Corey's notes in the first paragraphs. Press releases explaining something interesting have a default size of 1 printed page. Should be started by a ti

Re: Press releases

2006-03-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
> As for journalists wanting more information, I mentioned we have excellent > release notes. I think that's the better way to go. Better, focused resources that press release regurgitation. > I also mentioned in my first mail that I excluded the About Gnome stuff on > the mail because it doesn

Re: Press releases

2006-03-10 Thread Corey Burger
some of it for their stories. Otherwise, in this > day and age, just write couple of sentences like "GNOME version XXX > release. For more information visit Website ." Why even bother > writing two paragraphs. > > Just to get an idea on how big a press release need

Re: Press releases

2006-03-10 Thread Rajiv Vyas
uot;GNOME version XXX release. For more information visit Website ." Why even bother writing two paragraphs. Just to get an idea on how big a press release needs to be, below are links to press releases on SuSE 10 and MSFT's Windows Service Pack launch. See the second release to get an

Re: Press releases

2006-03-10 Thread Corey Burger
Claus et al, I sincerely apologize. Davyd said he had recieved something from you and he offered to forward it on to me. It didn't post it to hack anybody down. I have never written any press releases and wanted some geniune feedback. There some really great things from each press release. I

Re: Press releases

2006-03-10 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:07:54 -0800 "Corey Burger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > We currently have two press releases, from myself and Claus. I have > attached both. The key difference between the two is length. Mine is > fashioned on the 2.12 press r

Re: Press releases

2006-03-10 Thread Murray Cumming
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 10:07 -0800, Corey Burger wrote: > Hello all, > > We currently have two press releases, from myself and Claus. I have > attached both. The key difference between the two is length. Mine is > fashioned on the 2.12 press release, as well as looking at a few ot

Re: Press releases

2006-03-10 Thread David Neary
Hi, Corey Burger wrote: We currently have two press releases, from myself and Claus. I have attached both. The key difference between the two is length. Mine is fashioned on the 2.12 press release, as well as looking at a few other non-gnome ones. They tend to be short, with very few actual

Re: Press releases

2006-03-10 Thread Corey Burger
On 3/10/06, Rajiv Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/10/06, Corey Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > We currently have two press releases, from myself and Claus. I have > > attached both. The key difference between the two is le

Re: Press releases

2006-03-10 Thread Tom Chance
Ahoy, For what it's worth... On Friday 10 March 2006 18:07, Corey Burger wrote: > We currently have two press releases, from myself and Claus. I have > attached both. The key difference between the two is length. Mine is > fashioned on the 2.12 press release, as well as looking

Re: Press releases

2006-03-10 Thread Rajiv Vyas
On 3/10/06, Corey Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > We currently have two press releases, from myself and Claus. I have > attached both. The key difference between the two is length. Mine is > fashioned on the 2.12 press release, as well as looking at a few o

Press releases

2006-03-10 Thread Corey Burger
Hello all, We currently have two press releases, from myself and Claus. I have attached both. The key difference between the two is length. Mine is fashioned on the 2.12 press release, as well as looking at a few other non-gnome ones. They tend to be short, with very few actual details. Claus

Re: Publishing press releases in other languages than english

2005-06-20 Thread Leslie Proctor
Businesswire --- David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Leslie Proctor wrote: > > It took me a couple of days, but I researched the > > exact costs of doing a release in Europe. The > amounts > > are in US dollars and would need to be adjusted > > (upwards) to Euros. > > Thanks fo

Re: Publishing press releases in other languages than english

2005-06-20 Thread David Neary
Hi, Leslie Proctor wrote: It took me a couple of days, but I researched the exact costs of doing a release in Europe. The amounts are in US dollars and would need to be adjusted (upwards) to Euros. Thanks for the info. Mind me asking where you got it from (for future reference)? Cheers, Da

Re: Publishing press releases in other languages than english

2005-06-20 Thread Murray Cumming
I think we can rule this out. We've never paid for the release of any press release. However, we'd be happy for any companies to help us with this, as Novell does in the U.S. We'll make sure to ask the advisory board for help too. On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 13:15 -0700, Leslie Proctor wrote: > I forgo

Re: Publishing press releases in other languages than english

2005-06-20 Thread Leslie Proctor
I forgot to give the US costs: $595 + $155 - right in that $600-$800 range I talked about. Leslie --- Leslie Proctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I suspect it's cheaper in France. Plus, Mandrake > > have offered us a > > helping hand in t

Re: Publishing press releases in other languages than english

2005-06-20 Thread Leslie Proctor
--- David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suspect it's cheaper in France. Plus, Mandrake > have offered us a > helping hand in the past, perhaps they would be > prepared to push a > couple of locally relevant releases a year for us. > It took me a couple of days, but I researched the exa

Re: Publishing press releases in other languages than english

2005-06-14 Thread Leslie Proctor
. > > One question. This is the price to have a press > release distributed in > the PR networks. But PR networks are not just the > only way to get to > journalists, isn't it? As I said earlier - the best strategy to deal with the high cost of sending a release globally on the wire is to person

Re: Publishing press releases in other languages than english

2005-06-14 Thread Fernando San Martín Woerner
El mar, 14-06-2005 a las 08:40 +0200, Dave Neary escribió: > Hi Quim, > > Quim Gil a écrit : > > One question. This is the price to have a press release distributed in > > the PR networks. But PR networks are not just the only way to get to > > journalists, isn't it? > > That's right. I think tha

Re: Publishing press releases in other languages than english

2005-06-13 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Quim, Quim Gil a écrit : One question. This is the price to have a press release distributed in the PR networks. But PR networks are not just the only way to get to journalists, isn't it? That's right. I think that's what Leslie was saying when she mentioned collecting press contacts and

Re: Publishing press releases in other languages than english

2005-06-13 Thread Quim Gil
>> Literally - thousands of dollars for each release. > > > I suspect it's cheaper in France. One question. This is the price to have a press release distributed in the PR networks. But PR networks are not just the only way to get to journalists, isn't it? I mean,

Re: Publishing press releases in other languages than english

2005-06-13 Thread David Neary
Hi, Leslie Proctor wrote: Literally - thousands of dollars for each release. I suspect it's cheaper in France. Plus, Mandrake have offered us a helping hand in the past, perhaps they would be prepared to push a couple of locally relevant releases a year for us. The best strategy is to lo

Re: Publishing press releases in other languages than english

2005-06-13 Thread Leslie Proctor
We now have press contacts in France, the UK and > Germany at least. > Perhaps we should start gathering information on > cost & procedure for > pushing press releases to wires over this side of > the pond? Literally - thousands of dollars for each release. In the US, you

Re: Publishing press releases in other languages than english

2005-06-13 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Leslie Proctor a écrit : We have a team of people that localize the press releases into some languages. We currently have reliable people to do Portugese, Spanish and Chinese and German. We could use other languages. Volunteers? The i18n team (which have a signle point of contact) can

Re: Publishing press releases in other languages than english

2005-06-13 Thread Terance Edward Sola
man, 13,.06.2005 kl. 09.02 -0700, skrev Leslie Proctor: > We have a team of people that localize the press > releases into some languages. We currently have > reliable people to do Portugese, Spanish and Chinese > and German. We could use other languages. > Volunteers? >

Re: Publishing press releases in other languages than english

2005-06-13 Thread Leslie Proctor
We have a team of people that localize the press releases into some languages. We currently have reliable people to do Portugese, Spanish and Chinese and German. We could use other languages. Volunteers? When the release goes out over the wire, it only goes out in English - it's very expe

Re: Publishing press releases in other languages than english

2005-06-12 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:21:46 +0200 Vincent Untz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm wondering if we have a way to publish press releases in other > languages (e.g., french ;-)) so they can reach at least the "local" > newspapers (french/french-speaking newspa

Re: Publishing press releases in other languages than english

2005-06-12 Thread Murray Cumming
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 14:21 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > Hi, > > According to [1], we currently publish press releases through Novell. > However, this is only for english/international press releases. > > I'm wondering if we have a way to publish press releases in other &g

Re: Publishing press releases in other languages than english

2005-06-12 Thread Luis Villa
On 6/12/05, Vincent Untz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > According to [1], we currently publish press releases through Novell. > However, this is only for english/international press releases. > > I'm wondering if we have a way to publish press releases in ot

Publishing press releases in other languages than english

2005-06-12 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, According to [1], we currently publish press releases through Novell. However, this is only for english/international press releases. I'm wondering if we have a way to publish press releases in other languages (e.g., french ;-)) so they can reach at least the "local" new