Draft GNUCash Press Release

[Matt Townsend]

That's a solid technical point, but I think a review of a milestone release 
seems much more likely than say, 2.1.  Round numbers interest people.

"Version 2.1" seems significantly less newsworthy than "version 2.0."  You 
could risk bad reviews on a 2.0, but I suspect you'd risk no reviews for a 
2.1.

On Monday 22 May 2006 12:39 am, Olaf Faaland wrote:
> 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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