Best way to announce things?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Feb 21 12:41:42 UTC 2008


Jonathan Roberts wrote:
>> I think we should use news.fp.o extensively and integrate it into the
>>  front page via a RSS feed. Other major announcements can go to
>>  fedora-announce list. Things like publican for example. We should
>>  probably drop mails to journalists directly which we have not been doing
>>  yet.
> 
> I was wondering more about the format they should take rather than
> where - though I totally agree with your comments here :)
> 
> I'm not sure what other formats we could consider to a press release
> tbh, but I just wanted to make sure we were using the best methods at
> our disposal...

I don't prefer press release like announcements in community forums. We 
should be casual, highlight not only the work done but also the people 
doing the work and let Red Hat do the official press releases. No need 
to duplicate that effort.

Rahul




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