Draft GNUCash Press Release

[Matt Townsend]

I don't think there's anything wrong with having both a standard announcement 
and a press release--depending on where you send things.  I'm not sure the 
press release, especially something with quotes, would make much sense posted 
on the site's main page.  However, if you want to send something off to the 
people at Redhat, SuSE, and the various linux and computing magazines/sites, 
this would be better.

Do you already have contacts at any of these places?

Are you aiming to get articles published about 2.0.0?  Do you want to get the 
attention of the main distros?  Or are you trying to announce the release to 
the general public, e.g. site visitors?  The answers to these questions help 
determine just what kind of press release you need.

MT

On Sunday 21 May 2006 8:34 pm, Chris Lyttle wrote:
> Way to go, this is just the kind of press release GnuCash needs. I'm all
> for making this the default announcement, the stuff I put together for
> the releases really doesn't do much more than announce bugfixes.
>
> Chris
>
> Christian Stimming wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 21. Mai 2006 20:59 schrieb Matt Townsend:
> >> I uploaded a draft onto the wiki.
> >
> > Great! This is way cool! Now we "only" need to fill in the actual
> > content! Thanks a lot for this suggestion, and I guess we will add
> > suggestions for the missing parts quite soon.
> >
> > @Developers: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Announcement_2.0.0 is worth a
> > good laugh in its current state :-) but Matt obviously made it very clear
> > what kind of details we need to add.
> >
> > Any suggestions for new features that are newsworthy should be added to
> > the list at the wiki page.
> >
> > Christian
> >
> >> On Sunday 21 May 2006 8:35 am, you wrote:
> >>> Hi Matt,
> >>>
> >>> yes, that would be absolutely great! For the developers, it is a quite
> >>> "weak side" for all of them to write up something really interesting.
> >>>
> >>> I would suggest to collect any notes and ideas in the wiki page,
> >>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Announcement_2.0.0
> >>> I hope we can provide the technical details quite soon, so that an
> >>> interesting text can be compiled in time.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Christian
> >>>
> >>> Am Sonntag, 21. Mai 2006 09:14 schrieben Sie:
> >>>> Christian,
> >>>>
> >>>> I saw your posting about a press release for 2.0.0.  I have a
> >>>> journalism degree, and I'd be happy to help draft something "newsy" in
> >>>> English about the milestone version--once technical details about the
> >>>> version were provided (e.g. changelog, major feature additions, et
> >>>> cetera).
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Matt Townsend
> >>>> Central Florida, U.S.
> >
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