Draft GNUCash Press Release

[Olaf Faaland]

Since so many modules/etc have been touched, do you really want to try to get 
reviews in magazines, or save that for 2.1?  Presumably 2.0 will have many 
bugs that will be fixed in 2.1, and presumably 2.1 will not be too far off in 
the future.

This is of course separate from notifying distros that GnuCash is now gtk2.

On Sunday 21 May 2006 09:20 pm, Chris Lyttle wrote:
> I dont have specific contacts, but I think that it would be a good thing
> to get the attention of the following for this release, especially due
> to that they may have written Gnucash off (possibly);
> a) distro's - I know we have the RedHat and Debian guy's paying
> attention to us already but it'd be good to get the word out to make
> sure GnuCash is once again included by default in as many distro's as
> possible
> b) online/offline computing magazines - would be great to get an updated
> reviews of the release in Linux Journal or some other sites such as
> OSNews (as many as possible)
> c) General public - not quite sure how to reach out to people here, but
> perhaps we could do that through sites like gnomedesktop.org and
> freshmeat and possibly slashdot?
>
> Anyway the goal in my mind should be getting out the word as widely as
> possible that we are now gnome2/gtk2 and have made some advances in user
> functionality in getting there too.
>
> Chris
>
> Matt Townsend wrote:
> > 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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