AnnouncePlanning046

Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...

Tasks

Task	Performer	Date of completion	Status
Informal PR text	none?	unknown	0%
Formal PR text	none?	unknown	0%
Interview	Prokoudine	started	0%

Draft Press Releases

Informal

One Sentence

The Inkscape 0.46 release provides vector artists with: a new array of exciting tools, extended functionality on existing tools & features, significant speed and interactivity improvements and many user interface enhancements that increase productivity.

Announcement Process

1. Create new news posts on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
2. Create a new Page on the Inkscape website that has the Formal Announcement on it (for linking purposes) have links back to the socal bookmarking stories for the release.
3. Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News
4. Send out the informal announcement to all recipents on the list. (include a link to the page with the formal announcement on it)
5. Send out the formal announcement. (include a link to the page with the formal announcement on it)

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.

Receive mini-blurb

Contact Name	Who will contact / post	Notes...
Digg	ryanlerch	digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
slashdot.org	ryanlerch	submit a new news item.
newsvine.com/	ryanlerch	submit a new news item.

Receive Informal PR

Open Source Community

Contact Name	Who will contact / post	Notes...
gnome office list		gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
svg developers yahoo group		svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
SVG.org	ryanlerch	antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
svgfaq.org	ryanlerch	maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
svgfoundation.org	ryanlerch	michael (at) svgfoundation.org
cairo list	ryanlerch	cairo at cairographics dot org
gnome-list	ryanlerch	gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
Scribus List (mrdocs)	ryanlerch	scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
osnews.com	ryanlerch	http://osnews.com/submit.php
desktoplinux.com	ryanlerch	http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
SVG Cafe.com	ryanlerch	http://www.svg-cafe.com/ join and post to news section
Freshmeat.net		a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
gnome footnotes		http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
scale-a-vector	ryanlerch	kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
http://dot.kde.org	ryanlerch	http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
revelinux.com	ryanlerch	theobroma at revelinux dot com

Broader Inkscape & Art Community

Contact Name	Who will contact / post?	Notes...
Inkscape deviantart group	ScislaC	http://inkscape.deviantart.com/
the inkscape forum	ryanlerch	http://www.inkscapeforum.com/ run by microUgly
inkscape tutorials blog	ryanlerch	http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
open clip art library list	ryanlerch	clipart@freedesktop.org
open clip art library news	ryanlerch
artdc.org forum	johncoswell	http://www.artdc.org/
bittbox.com - vector art blog	ryanlerch	contact(at)bittbox.com
The Daily Ubuntu - Daily Ubuntu Applications	ryanlerch	http://www.contactify.com/35b54

Receive Formal PR

Magazines

Contact Name	Who will contact / post?	Notes...
http://linuxformat.co.uk/		login and submit news via top of page link
http://linux-magazine.com/		pr(at)linux - magazine (dot) com
http://linuxjournal.com/		newproducts (at) ssc (dot) com
http://linuxmagazine.com/		jbrockmeier at linux hyphen mag DOT com.
http://linuxuser.co.uk		terry at linuxuser dot co dot uk http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
http://www.tuxmagazine.com/		editor at tuxmagazine dot com
http://www.linuxworld.com/		mrhinkle at linuxworld dot com tim at linuxworld dot com
http://cmykmag.com/
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/		dom dot hall at futurenet dot co dot uk http://www.computerarts.co.uk/contacts
http://www.layersmagazine.com/

Other

• openpr - http://openpr.com/news/submit.html
• nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
• See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
• http://graphicdesign.about.com
• http://graphicssoft.about.com
• http://desktoppublishing.about.com