(please cc publicity@d.o.)
Dearest Fellows,
The Publicity team is revitalizing the Debian Project News (DPN)[1]. I
was
thinking to do a DPN at this year's end or at the start of the next year as an
archive issue that gives retrospective highlights to the many things that the
project has accomplished in 2024.
We heavily rely on DDs, teams, and groups that approach us with reports,
announcements, and other news worth sharing, which is something that works well
in conjunction with our own process of scouring the project mailing lists for
items to share.
In reality with that approach the publicity team promotes just a fraction of
what is going on in Debian, we do so mainly via our Micronews[2] and Bits
blog[3] services, though truthfully we do miss a few things here and a few
things there.
One of our team goals in the next year is to promote ourselves a bit
more so
that those same aforementioned agencies know that our services are always
available.
So now we think, why not address all of those concerns with a spectacular year
end review/archive edition? The proposed issue for the next publication would
highlight many of the prior news links and articles, using a 'Here is what you
may have missed' theme, but why not invite the teams and groups themselves to
tell the rest of the world and the community of the awesome that you have done
this year alone?
Could I ask each team represented here to send a blurb/paragraph of your
activities for the 2024 year? We would love to add it to the issue and if there
is enough internally driven content we can make this happen. Calls for help for
your team along with a blurb would be just as satisfactory for some outreach and
maybe new volunteers.
>From what we have seen so far readers/followers would be very receptive to a
project summary especially as we have taken care in expanding our social media
reach, updating the Debian website (webmasters team), and the fine tuning of our
own publication methods which are allowing for greater feedback directly from
users and organizations.
[1] https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/
[2] https://micronews.debian.org/
[3] https://bits.debian.org/
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Donald Norwood
Debian Press and Publicity
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