On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Martin Owens <docto...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 13:11 +0100, Laura Czajkowski wrote: >> Perhaps >> leaving the "release" announcements to Canonical as that's their >> area. Helping distribute these locally is definitely a good idea.
> > I think if Canonical can engadge with the LoCo teams and other community > people, we could legally take their announcements and publish them to > local media and other contacts we might have. > This has been done in Norway earlier. Of course you also need to have contacts in the media. Go for the local IT media outlets and start there. > At the moment, I don't know if it's possible to re-submit Canonical's > official announcements and I'm not sure if Canonical would be pleased or > helpful with community involvement. > it is. Having direct contact with the Canonical Marketing and PR teams (at own initiative) and having at hand a Press Release(s) before it is (they are) published as an incentive for media outlets to have fresh news is highly recommended. And even before I contacted Canonical for the first time in this regard in 2009, I used to send a press release loosely based on the Release Notes and also pointing journalists to Canonical's own press release for further details. This worked fine and attracted a lot of attention form Norwegian media. > Otherwise, the community does make announcements, it just doesn't submit > them to news media. Something that I think it has a right to do as > citizen journalists alone (let alone fellow developers) ;-) Honestly, I think this is up to each individual in the community. As long as you respect and behave by the CoC you should be able to speak in behalf of the community. A press release is there to be used, you do not need permission from anyone to let a journalist know about it. > > Best Regards, Martin Owens > > Best, - Rubén Romero http://pad.lv/~huayra -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
