Re: press release ideas

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Patrick Fey <inside nachtarbeiter net> wrote:

while it would be ideal to be notified by the various groups beforehand,
it will not always happen, because people tend to forget these things. A
more proactive approach would be for the marketing team to monitor the
schedules of the two GNOME Event Boxes. The organizers could then be
contacted beforehand.

That's a great idea! Rosanna maintains the US box. Anybody want to take on figuring out an easy way to sync event boxes with press announcements?

> In general, we really should be encouranging the various user groups to
> give advance notice of GNOME participation in events so that we can tell
> people about it, and ensure institutional support (centrally printed
> posters, merchandise for sale, Friends of GNOME sign-up brochures, etc)
> where possible & desirable.

Why not send out these brochures to Openismus and whoever maintains the
American event box right away? If Murray places the brochures inside the
box, they will be used for sure and we do not need to ping everyone in
advance. That would cover most of the bigger events automatically.

I think we (the marketing team) should put together a press packet that includes things like brochures, posters, stickers, talking points for the current release (what do we want people to know about GNOME) and answers to common questions.

Stormy

:-) Patrick
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