Planning the PR for the 0.46 release is done here...
Tasks
Task
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Performer
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Date of completion
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Status
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Informal PR text
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none?
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unknown
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0%
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Formal PR text
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none?
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unknown
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0%
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Interview
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Prokoudine
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started
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0%
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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.
One Paragraph
One Page
Formal
One Sentence
One Paragraph
One Page
Announcement Process
- Create new news posts on all the relevant social bookmarking sites: digg, slashdot etc.
- 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.
- Post the official announcement to the Inkscape News
- Send out the informal announcement to all recipents on the list. (include a link to the page with the formal announcement on it)
- 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
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Who will contact / post
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Notes...
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Digg
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ryanlerch
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digg.com someone needs to post a short excerpt anouncing the release, and link it to inkscape.org.
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slashdot.org
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ryanlerch
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submit a new news item.
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newsvine.com/
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ryanlerch
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submit a new news item.
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Receive Informal PR
Contact Name
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Who will contact / post
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Notes...
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gnome office list
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gnome-office-list at gnome dot org
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svg developers yahoo group
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svg-developers at yahoo dot com must join the list to send (rejon is on)
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SVG.org
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ryanlerch
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antoine at graougraou dot com, svg at steltenpower dot com
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svgfaq.org
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ryanlerch
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maxdunn at siliconpublishing dot com
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svgfoundation.org
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ryanlerch
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michael (at) svgfoundation.org
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cairo list
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ryanlerch
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cairo at cairographics dot org
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gnome-list
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ryanlerch
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gnome-announce-list at gnome dot org
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Scribus List (mrdocs)
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ryanlerch
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scribus at nashi dot altmuehlnet dot de
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osnews.com
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ryanlerch
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http://osnews.com/submit.php
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desktoplinux.com
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ryanlerch
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http://desktoplinux.com/contactus.html
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SVG Cafe.com
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ryanlerch
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http://www.svg-cafe.com/ join and post to news section
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Freshmeat.net
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a new release has to be added to inkscape's freshmeat profile
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gnome footnotes
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http://gnomedesktop.org/node/add/story
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scale-a-vector
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ryanlerch
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kukofka at scale-a-vector dot de http://www.scale-a-vector.de/cont.htm
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http://dot.kde.org
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ryanlerch
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http://dot.kde.org/addPostingForm
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revelinux.com
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ryanlerch
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theobroma at revelinux dot com
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Receive Formal PR
Magazines
Other