[drupal-docs] Publicity materials

[Djun Kim]

Laura,

     this seems like a very good idea!

     There is a press and marketing team within the Docs effort:

http://drupal.org/node/23743

They have put together a task list:

http://drupal.org/node/24049

This might be a good place to look to start coordinating some of
these efforts.

      Best regards, Djun


Laura Scott wrote [at 3 June 2005 10:06:53 AM PDT]

> I was wondering about any efforts in this group about putting together 
> publicity materials. (I just posted a comment about this and came 
> right here.)
>
> Anyone in business knows that the best advertising is free 
> advertising, and that happens when publications write about you, talk 
> about you, refer to you. To help enable that, you create and post 
> press releases written in 3rd person, as if they were written by a 
> magazine. Press release occasions might be:
>
> New releases of core
> New releases of themes and modules
> Major endorsements and migrations to Drupal
>
> This content would be written for the press, not for users. As such, 
> most of the content can be pulled from internal announcements and 
> discussions.
>
> We would want to create a Press area, linked from the front page, that 
> aggregates the press releases. This would be different from "News and 
> Announcements" in that only people with role privileges could post the 
> press announcements. "News and Announcements" has all sorts of 
> postings not related to the Drupal.org effort (such as the request for 
> a consultant posted today).
>
> My suggestion is to make part of the documentation effort is pulling 
> together some basic publicity materials, and refresh them 
> periodically. For example, each and every update should get a press 
> release:
>
   <snip/>

> If there is nobody spearheading this, and it sounds good to the group 
> and management, I would be happy to lead this effort.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> ===
> Laura S
> pingV
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