Draft GNUCash Press Release

[Olaf Faaland]

Good point.

On Sunday 21 May 2006 10:18 pm, Matt Townsend wrote:
> 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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