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Upcoming Announcement Planning

Release Announcements (Informal)

Press Releases (Formal)

Guides to writing Press releases:

Places to Announce

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

Open Source Community (Receive Informal PR)

gnome-office-list@gnome.org [0.45 sent]
svg-developers@yahoo.com - must join the list to send (rejon is on)
SVG.org: antoine@graougraou.com [0.45 sent]
svgfaq.org - maxdunn@siliconpublishing.com
svgfoundation.org - michael (at) svgfoundation.org
cairo list - cairo@cairographics.org [0.45 sent]
gnome-list - gnome-announce-list@gnome.org [0.45 sent]
Scribus List (mrdocs) - scribus@nashi.altmuehlnet.de [0.45 sent]
osnews.com - http://osnews.com/submit.php [0.45 sent]
LWN Submission Guide
W3C SVG Implementations [0.45 sent]
newstips@heise.de [0.45 sent]
news@golem.de [0.45 sent]
http://slashdot.org/submit.pl [0.45 sent]
mozilla svg project
submit if you have an account: http://svg.org/submitstory/Diary
http://www.desktoplinux.com/ - http://www.desktoplinux.com/cgi-bin/news_post.cgi
http://www.svg-cafe.com/ - join and post to news section
Freshmeat
gnome footnotes
scale-a-vector - kukofka@scale-a-vector.de
http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/Inkscape

Art sites
- clipart-list - clipart@freedesktop.org
- DeviantART

kde sites

PR: theobroma@revelinux.com

Social Sites

Formal PR Contacts

prleap - another free pr service
prbuzz - another free pr service
openpr - another free pr service
SBWire offers free press release services to open source projects with the SBWire for Non-Profits program
nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
arts sites? <-- continue looking these up!!!
news site
need more magazines
need more press outlets

Magazines (Get formal PR)

I've requested where to send PR and how to get our software reviewed from these magazines.

http://linuxformat.co.uk/ - webmaster@linuxformat.co.uk
- PR: login and submit news via top of page link
http://linux-magazine.com/ - info@linux-magazine.com edit@linux-magazine.com
- PR: pr@linux-magazine.com
- Product Reviews: coming soon
http://linuxjournal.com/ - ljeditor@ssc.com
- PR: newproducts@ssc.com
- Product Reviews: Heather Mead, heather@ssc.com, http://www.linuxjournal.com/xstatic/advertising/prodreviews
http://linuxmagazine.com/ - editors@linux-mag.com
- PR: ???
- Product Reviews:
http://linuxuser.co.uk - http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
- PR: terry@linuxuser.co.uk
- Product Reviews: martin@linuxuser.co.uk
http://www.tuxmagazine.com/ - editor@tuxmagazine.com
- PR: ???
- Product Reviews: http://www.tuxmagazine.com/xstatic/advertising/prodreviews
http://www.linuxworld.com/ - mrhinkle@linuxworld.com tim@linuxworld.com

http://cmykmag.com/
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
- http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
- PR & Product Reviews: dom.hall@futurenet.co.uk
- Gallery and Exposure: richard.llewellyn@futurenet.co.uk
http://www.layersmagazine.com/

Other Updates

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape Update the 'Features', 'Interface and usability', & 'Versions', also check the other languages and maybe ask for an update on the respective talk page

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