Re: Rethinking our release press releases

2015-09-23 Thread Oliver Propst
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Allan Day wrote: > > Is there anything in particular that you think should be added? > A bullet list with some highlights of the release. -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.o

Re: Rethinking our release press releases

2015-09-23 Thread Allan Day
Oliver Propst wrote: > I'm right when I assume that we will not publish a separate press release > tomorrow? That's looking likely! > Will this somehow change the format of the news item? It mean that the news item will have to include a one or two extra things that were usually in the press re

Re: Rethinking our release press releases

2015-09-22 Thread Oliver Propst
I'm right when I assume that we will not publish a separate press release tomorrow? Will this somehow change the format of the news item? If we are not publishing a separate press release I guess it maybe would make sense to elaborate the news item. The 3.16 news item [1] was very brief. 1 https:

Re: Rethinking our release press releases

2015-09-12 Thread Allan Day
Liam Quin wrote: ... > Although it can make sense to focus energy like that, we should also ask, > why aren't journalists using press releases? The release notes, release video and screenshot pack all get used in the press coverage that I've seen. The screenshot pack is typically only linked to f

Re: Rethinking our release press releases

2015-09-11 Thread Liam Quin
On 2015-09-11 18:49, Nuritzi Sanchez wrote: Allan Day wrote: My personal feeling is that we should frame this discussion around the question: what do we want to provide journalists with? I think this is the singlemost important thing to consider. If journalists aren't using the press release

Re: Rethinking our release press releases

2015-09-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:49 PM Nuritzi Sanchez wrote: > Allan Day wrote: >> >> >> My personal feeling is that we should frame this discussion around the >> question: what do we want to provide journalists with? > > > I think this is the singlemost important thing to consider. If journalists > a

Re: Rethinking our release press releases

2015-09-11 Thread Nuritzi Sanchez
Allan Day wrote: > > > My personal feeling is that we should frame this discussion around the > question: what do we want to provide journalists with? I think this is the singlemost important thing to consider. If journalists aren't using the press release, then it doesn't make sense to spend ti

Rethinking our release press releases

2015-09-11 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, Sri and I are wondering whether we should not do a dedicated press release for the upcoming 3.18 release [1], and wanted to get some opinions. There are a couple of reasons we're thinking of not doing a dedicated press release: 1. The main body of the press release repeats information t