Re: News Story Ideas

["Karen Sandler" <karen gnome org>]

On Thu, April 25, 2013 5:11 am, Allan Day wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> During the last marketing meeting I said that I'd mail the list with
> some ideas for news stories to be written over the summer. This is it.
> :)
>
>  * GTK Hackfest - we just had it; it would be great to have a summary
> for gnome.org
>  * A 3.8 retrospective - once 3.8 hits the distros it would be great
> to have another round of marketing around the new release. This could
> be a re-hash of the existing marketing materials, and it could include
> comments or interviews with people who are using 3.8 (ideally saying
> what they like about it).
>  * A "looking forward to 3.10" piece - the feature proposals are in
> and give an idea about what we'll be releasing in October. It might be
> nice to have a post about that.

I'd also love to get something up on the cross desktop summit that just
happened.
> In addition to these, we have lots of events coming up that we should
> be covering...
>
>  * Google Summer of Code and Outreach Program for Women summer
> internships (June to September) - we should have posts at the
> beginning and end of the internship period. We could also have other
> feature pieces over the summer.
>  * Marketing Hackfest (probably beginning of June)
>  * OpenHelp Documentation Hackfest (mid-June)
>  * Board of Directors elections (not sure when that will be)
>  * GUADEC (beginning of August) - we should have a whole series of
> posts leading up to and during this. Interviews with keynote speakers
> and conference organisers would be good here.
there's GNOME.Asia and the "Boston" Summit too.

karen

> I'm sure there's plenty of other things that we could have as news
> stories. Anyone got any other ideas?
>
> Allan
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