On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 12:14 +0100, Barry Drake wrote: > Hi there .... A few days ago, Laura Czajkowski made the suggestion that > Ubuntu Advertising and/or Ubuntu Marketing might look at preparing and > sending press releases to appropriate media. Since then, I've been > looking at what happens at present. All I can find are spasmodic > releases from Canonical which sometimes reflect the state of play with > the latest Ubuntu release. > > Do any of you know of anything more than this? > > If not, could I suggest a sub group committed to circulating a regular > media news letter (two or three times a year). I'll be happy to receive > contributions, collate them and write it up, then circulate it. It > would need to target computer magazines, press generally, radio and TV. > > Are there any opinions? And any volunteers to feed news items into > this?
Hi Barry, I'm happy to sign up for review if it would help. In terms of content, there are the release notes that are coming out with the milestone announcements that probably have useful fodder to be culled for this sort of thing. And we do have 2 major development releases a year as well as 2 LTS point releases ;) The Release Overview section and some of the highlevel overview information, in particular. See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/ReleaseNotes Also, we're in process of putting together A3 release, but the A1 and A2 milestone release notes from Oneiric, can be reviewed. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/TechnicalOverview/Alpha1 [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/TechnicalOverview/Alpha2 We try to highlight whats making a first appearance for developers, but it might be interesting to the wider audience as well? On a related topic, if there is a contact or two interested in participating in proofreading the announces before they go out, I'd very much appreciate a set of editorial eyes on them a day before each milestone release. Please let me know if there are volunteers? Thanks, Kate (Ubuntu Release Manager) -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
