Someone has generously offered some models. I think we are pretty set with the first one that Brian has offered but some of the other iterations may help for the future.
I have made some changes to the current whiteboard press release and will reply to your other post about them. They are minor but I do have one question. Biella -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Debian-NYC] Press Release Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:06:22 -0400 From: Pamela Lynn Howell <pamelahow...@gmail.com> To: Gabriella Coleman <bie...@nyu.edu> CC: Brian Gupta <brian.gu...@brandorr.com> All- Sorry for the delays. I was working on another project and didn't see your response til now. In the interest of giving you what I've got, pronto...I'm just copying and pasting them in chronological order, inside this message. I am relatively certain, given the cooperative nature of our conference process, that my organizer pals at LOPSANJ wouldn't mind me giving you access, but the way our archive is structured at the moment, I'd have to get you lopsanj.org <http://lopsanj.org> logins to have the link to our googledocs share. So...unfortunately, here's a VERY long message. The more professionally created and group-reviewed releases are towards the bottom. I like #5 the best, myself. Good luck with your conference! Not sure if I will make it...but I just might. 8-) And hey, if another set of eyes is helpful during your process, feel free to forward - I should be online most all day+eve Monday. ---pam 908.432.5854 p.s. I had a lot of fun putting my press release up on the free 'myprgenie.com <http://myprgenie.com>'...you can check the release i liked out here: http://www.myprgenie.com/publication/view_publication/new-jersey-it-conference-will-save-business-a---million-dollars-in-training-costs-and-save-300000-lbs-of-co2?caller=Publication ***Release #1*** Press Release LOPSA-NJ Launches Professional IT Community Conference for IT Administrators Convention scheduled for May 7th and 8th at the Hyatt Regency New Brunswick / Princeton, NJ/, January 25, 2010 – Despite the down economy, things are heating up for New Jersey's fledgling IT community. Professional computer and network system administrators from startups, century-old corporations and the public sector are gathering for a 2-day conference of training and community. The New Jersey chapter of the League of Professional System Administrators, an organization dedicated to facilitating information exchange pertaining to the field of system administration, announced today that it is launching the Professional IT Community Conference, or PICC, for IT administrators. The conference will be held Friday, May 7th through Saturday, May 8th at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick. The Professional IT Community Conference is a gathering of people from the diverse IT community in New Jersey to learn, share ideas, and network. The conference will include invited speakers and keynotes, top-notch training sessions that are relevant, useful, and recession-friendly, as well as an “unconference” track where attendees propose and host their own topics. LOPSA-NJ organizer and PICC Chairman William Bilancio said, “This conference will be the area's premier community-organized system administration event, and we're looking forward to hosting IT administrators, regardless of their operating systems or infrastructure complexity.” New Jersey-local and internationally recognized author and speaker Thomas A. Limoncelli remarked, “I've benefited greatly from other regional and national conferences like this. People come for the excellent technical training but the benefits of networking last forever. I'm excited about seeing the New Jersey technical IT community coming together. This conference has particular benefits for people that will be connecting to the technical community for the first time.” "Non-profit, community driven conferences are your best IT training value", said Pamela Howell, conference organizer and CEO of New Jersey-based Esoteric Resources. "There's nothing quite like the networking opportunities at an in-person conference. The sense of community one has, of being in a place where you're among your peers, people who understand you - your work issues and how they can affect your everyday life - it's irreplaceable. That's why we wanted to bring a more affordable conference experience to the local level, so that everyone can participate." LOPSA-NJ and the Professional IT Community Conference are dedicated to fostering our local expert community and strengthening tomorrow's computing infrastructure. For Media Inquiries: ****Release #2**** Press Release LOPSA-NJ Announces Speakers and Opens Registration for Professional IT Community Conference Internationally recognized speakers headline New Jersey-based event New Brunswick, NJ, February 21, 2010 – The Professional IT Community Conference is a regional event, but that isn't stopping internationally known speakers from appearing and presenting their vision of System Administration. The headliners of this event have varied backgrounds and experiences, but all are looking forward to sharing their thoughts on an array of topics. Scheduled for May 7^th and 8^th , the two day event will feature three keynote addresses. Renown speakers and sysadmins David Blank-Edelman and New Jersey-native Thomas A. Limoncelli join IBM research staffer Eben Haber in presenting keynotes to conference attendees. Opening the conference on Friday will be David Blank-Edelman. Blank-Edelman is the author of “Automating System Administration with Perl”, and has spent the past 25 years as a system/network administrator in large multi-platform environments including Brandeis University, Cambridge Technology Group, and the MIT Media Laboratory. He is currently the Director of Technology for Northeastern University CCIS. His keynote will focus on how system administrators are portrayed in popular culture. Thomas A. Limoncelli is scheduled for the Saturday morning keynote, and will be using material from an unpublished, unannounced fifth book to describe the top techniques for building a smooth operation in terms of infrastructure designs that “route around” problems, as well as building a community of peers for support. Limoncelli is the author of several books on the topic of system administration, and lives in New Jersey while commuting to his employer, Google, in New York City. The closing keynote address is a special treat! Eben M. Haber, a staff member at the IBM Research laboratory in Almaden, California, 55 miles southeast of San Francisco. Since 2002, Eben has been part of a group of researching working to learn more about system administration tools and practices. Drawing inspiration from luminaries such as Margaret Mead and Diane Fossey, they observe system administrators in their natural habitat, record their actions using video cameras, and conduct face to face interviews. Haber will be discussing the world of system administration from an outsider's perspective, and highlighting the findings his team discovered. It is sure to be both entertaining and enlightening! Registration for the conference is now open to the public, with two options available. A full conference and training pass is $474, although an “Early Bird” discount price of $399 is available until March 15^th , while a conference-only pass (sans access to the special training track) is $249. In addition, user-group and corporate discounts for groups of 4 or more people receive an additional 10% discount. Considerable discounts are also available for current students in limited quantities. To register for the 2010 Professional IT Community Conference, go to http://picconf.org <http://picconf.org/> and click on Register. ****Release #3**** Press Release LOPSA-NJ Extends Early Bird Pricing by One Week Discounted fee schedule ends Sunday, March 21st /New Brunswick, NJ/, Today 42, 2010 – The Professional IT Community Conference early bird registration prices have been extended for one week, in order to assist area administrators who have been hit with the economic downturn. This short term rate reduction ends Sunday, March 21st. Until that time, the price for the two-day conference is $249, or $399 for the conference and training. Special low prices are available for students, as well, with conference and training only $99. The New Jersey chapter of the League of Professional System Administrators, an organization dedicated to facilitating information exchange pertaining to the field of system administration, extended the reduced rate "early bird" registration, citing their desire to ensure that all area system administrators had a chance to take part in the conference. The significantly reduced pricing schedule has been designed to appeal to administrators from infrastructures of all sizes. The conference will be held Friday, May 7th through Saturday, May 8th at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick. The Professional IT Community Conference is a gathering of people from the diverse IT community in New Jersey to learn, share ideas, and network. The conference will include invited speakers and keynotes, top-notch training sessions that are relevant, useful, and recession-friendly, as well as an “unconference” track where attendees propose and host their own topics. LOPSA-NJ and the Professional IT Community Conference are dedicated to fostering our local expert community and strengthening tomorrow's computing infrastructure. For Media Inquiries: ****Release #4**** Press Release LOPSA-NJ Woos Windows Admins with Key Classes and Giveaways /New Brunswick, NJ, March 30, 2010/ – The Professional IT Community Conference schedule (available online at http://www.picconf.org) serves as the latest proof that the League of Professional System Administrators is working hard to build a coalition of IT administrators from infrastructures of all types. Microsoft Windows admins have been signing up in droves for the conference, which features classes and talks for everyone, including topics such as Powershell. The conference will be held Friday, May 7th through Saturday, May 8th at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick. Registration packages start at $249. The conference brings to the area speakers and presentations usually only seen at national and international conferences. Travel is the biggest expense of attending such conferences. By bringing the speakers to New Brunswick, area IT workers can save thousands. http://tinyurl.com/comparepicc The New Jersey chapter of the League of Professional System Administrators, an organization dedicated to facilitating information exchange pertaining to the field of system administration, announced today that every person in attendance will receive a free, no strings attached, license of Admin Arsenal, a nearly one thousand dollar value. (Other perks include a conference bags, a 2G USB thumb drive, and maybe some surprises). The Professional IT Community Conference is a gathering of people from the diverse IT community in New Jersey to learn, share ideas, and network. The conference will include invited speakers and keynotes, top-notch training sessions that are relevant, useful, and recession-friendly, as well as an “unconference” track where attendees propose and host their own topics. Conference chair, William Bilancio, had this to say, regarding the conference, "I'm very excited to be helping to organize a conference that has such a great potential to help sysadmins no matter their specialty." Mr. Bilancio has been a volunteer and member of LOPSA for several years. "Of all thing things administrators can do to increase their skill sets, taking an active role in the community and attending events like PICC are among the most important. Non-profit, regional community conferences are your best training value." LOPSA-NJ and the Professional IT Community Conference are dedicated to fostering our local expert community and strengthening tomorrow's computing infrastructure. For Media Inquiries: ****Release #5**** New Jersey IT Conference Will Save Business a Half Million Dollars in Training Costs and Save 300,000 lbs of CO2 Local System Administrators bring national quality speakers to Metro Area New Brunswick -- April 12, 2010 / (http://www.myprgenie.com) -- PICC, the Professional IT Community Conference, is the NY & NJ Metro areas' first IT conference committed to local and sustainable goals. PICC 2010 is on May 7-8th in New Brunswick, NJ and is produced by The League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA, a nonprofit corporation), with many community partners: LUG/IP, BBLISA and NYLUG.org, as well as a number of commercial sponsors including small and large businesses including Symantec(TM) and NetApp(TM). Details at http://picconf.org. Local is Sustainable. Society has learned that local can be better. PICC is the first local IT conference with nationally-known speakers and session leaders. Conferences in California or Hawaii can be really exciting but they can cost a lot of money, harm the environment, separate families and waste several days in travel time. Staying close to home can be more rewarding and sustainable by keeping work productivity up while providing great opportunities to learn and network without separating families. Local conferences have less impact on the businesses that are sending their staff, businesses can send more members of their IT team, and the team members who attend do not have their home lives disrupted. Local conferences also keep local business dollars locally helping to sustain the metro area economy. A strong local IT community will also help keep IT jobs from going overseas. Local is Affordable - 2 day Conference for only $249 -- Food Included. In the case of PICC, local especially means local pricing. Typical attendees of PICC will save $3,415.00 while also helping to save the planet and help the local IT community develop and sustain itself through networking, professional training and education. $1/2 Million in Savings Driving 200 miles in your new Prius or taking NJ Transit PIC on May 7 & 8th would produce less than 100 lbs CO2, yet a national conference trip from JFK to San Francisco or Hawaii could produce 1,611 to 3,600 lbs CO2; A typical conference with 150 attendees could save more than .5 million dollars and 300,000 lbs of C02 (depending on location). Compare then decide: http://lopsanj.org/events/picc10/save-money-now PICC 2010 Details May 7 and May 8, 2010 Hyatt Regency New Brunswick Two Albany Street (Entrance is near corner of "Neilson St & Church St") New Brunswick, New Jersey USA 08901 Links For Conference content: http://lopsanj.org/events/picc10/overview For Conference registration: http://lopsanj.org/events/picc10/registration ****Release #6**** Press Release Online Registration to New Jersey SysAdmin Conference Ends Soon /New Brunswick, NJ, April 19, 2010/ – The New Jersey chapter of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) wants to remind everyone that online registrations for the Professional IT Community Conference (PICC - http://www.picconf.org) will be considered "last minute registrations" after May 1st, 2010. At that point, registrations will still be accepted, although for a higher fee to cover additional administrative costs. The conference will be held Friday, May 7th through Saturday, May 8th at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick. Registration packages start at $249. The conference brings to the area speakers and presentations usually only seen at national and international conferences. Travel is the biggest expense of attending such conferences. By bringing the speakers to New Brunswick, area IT workers can save thousands. http://tinyurl.com/comparepicc The Professional IT Community Conference is a gathering of people from the diverse IT community in New Jersey to learn, share ideas, and network. The conference will include invited speakers and keynotes, top-notch training sessions that are relevant, useful, and recession-friendly, as well as an “unconference” track where attendees propose and host their own topics. Conference chair, William Bilancio, urged interested parties to register online, saying, "Due to the additional costs of last-minute additions to meals and other logistics, 'last minute' and 'at the door' registrations are necessarily higher in price to account for this increase in expenses. Registering on the website, on time, is the best way to attend this conference". In addition to the higher price, late arrivals are not guaranteed to receive conference gifts, including the thumb drives containing presentation materials and conference bags. Register online and on time by visiting http://www.picconf.org on the web. LOPSA-NJ and the Professional IT Community Conference are dedicated to fostering our local expert community and strengthening tomorrow's computing infrastructure. For Media Inquiries: ****Release #7**** Reduced Conference Rate for the Unemployed LOPSA-NJ has announced a significant discount to all unemployed system administrators wishing to attend the Professional IT Community Conference. /New Brunswick, NJ/, April 30, 2010 – The New Jersey chapter of the League of Professional System Administrators, an organization dedicated to facilitating information exchange pertaining to the field of system administration, announced today that, effective immediately, unemployed system administrators will receive a special conference registration priced at $99. Conference chair William Billancio had this to say: "PICC is about building community, a support network, and helping each other out. The best way that we can think of to do that is to lend a hand to those of us who are going through tough times. We want to make sure that everyone who is interested in attending is able to." Conference organizers have decided to lend a hand to any unemployed IT workers who wish to come to the conference, but can't pay for the full price, by lowering registration fees to $99. No proof of unemployment will be required of attendees, and no further questions will be asked. The conference will be held Friday, May 7th through Saturday, May 8th at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick. The Professional IT Community Conference is a gathering of people from the diverse IT community in New Jersey to learn, share ideas, and network. The conference will include invited speakers and keynotes, top-notch training sessions that are relevant, useful, and recession-friendly, as well as an “unconference” track where attendees propose and host their own topics. LOPSA-NJ and the Professional IT Community Conference are dedicated to fostering our local expert community and strengthening tomorrow's computing infrastructure. For Media Inquiries: ...thinking about what comes next... On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Gabriella Coleman <bie...@nyu.edu <mailto:bie...@nyu.edu>> wrote: Pamela, I would love to see it. I am not sure if we have time to contact the PR guy as I want to have it done by tomorrow but that is a very generous offer. Thanks and looking forward to meeting (you are coming to Debconf, I take it?) All best, Biella On 07/25/2010 05:51 PM, Pamela Lynn Howell wrote: > Biela- > > We have a few we used for the LOPSA group's first PICC conference this > year...if it'd help, I'd be happy to send them over to you. We also used > a currently-underworking-PR guy, who gave us some time for free, to > write some stuff. I'd be happy to send him your message, see if he'd be > willing to help, or at least give you some pointers. > > ---pam 908.432.5854 > > ...thinking about what comes next... > > > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Gabriella Coleman <bie...@nyu.edu <mailto:bie...@nyu.edu> > <mailto:bie...@nyu.edu <mailto:bie...@nyu.edu>>> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am supposed to write a press release based on this but I am wondering > if anyone has the original press release as that would help a lot. In > fact, I have never written one and am not sure what I should include so > any model would help greatly. > > http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/DebConf10-Debian-Conference-Set-for-August-in-NYC-146412/ > > If not, I will base it on this and what is on our website. > > Biella > > - > > **************************************************** > Gabriella Coleman, Assistant Professor > Department of Media, Culture, & Communication > New York University > 239 Greene St, 7th floor > NY NY 10003 > 212-992-7696 > http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Gabriella_Coleman > _______________________________________________ > DebianNYC mailing list > debian...@vireo.org <mailto:debian...@vireo.org> <mailto:debian...@vireo.org <mailto:debian...@vireo.org>> > http://lists.vireo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debiannyc > > -- **************************************************** Gabriella Coleman, Assistant Professor Department of Media, Culture, & Communication New York University 239 Greene St, 7th floor NY NY 10003 212-992-7696 http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Gabriella_Coleman _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
