Announcing Releases

Release Announcements (Informal)

• ReleaseAnnounce046
• ReleaseAnnounce045
• ReleaseAnnounce044
• ReleaseAnnounce043
• ReleaseAnnounce042
• ReleaseAnnounce041
• ReleaseAnnounce040
• ReleaseAnnounce039
• ReleaseAnnounce038

Press Releases (Formal)

• PressRelease046
• PressRelease045
• PressRelease044
• PressRelease043
• PressRelease042
• PressRelease041
• ArticleIntroducingInkscape0_40

• guide to writing successful pr

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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
  • http://dot.kde.org
  • http://kde-look.org
  • http://kde-artists.org

PR: theobroma@revelinux.com

Social Sites

• http://digg.com/
• http://del.icio.us/
• http://technorati.com/wtf
• BLOG IT!!!!

Formal PR Contacts

• prleap - another free pr service
• prbuzz - another free pr service
• openpr - another free pr service
• 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/

• http://graphicdesign.about.com
• http://graphicssoft.about.com
• http://desktoppublishing.about.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