[odf-discuss] Draft Press Release on OpenDocument Viewer

[Lars D. Noodén]

Jean, I've made some changes, hopefully improvements.

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> ... http://opendocumentfellowship.org/node/294 ... If anyone can improve 
> on this draft, please do! We want to send it out on Monday 8 January.

Given the amount of FUD that is starting to spew out of Redmond in prep 
for the Jan. release of MSO, having a press release for the beta and 
another for the production version is a good idea.

The recent changes to Google News also seem to make it harder for pro-ODF 
articles to get into the news index, and those that do seem to stay for a 
shorter time.  So pulishing more should be a priority for a few months.

  "ODF is about the future," Sutor writes. "Open XML is about the past."
  http://www.wired.com/news/technology/software/0,72403-0.html?tw=wn_technology_4

-Lars
Lars Noodén
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On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:

> Lars D. Noodén wrote:
>> 
>> Any reason for Jan 8th ?  If we time the press release with the actual 
>> release of the viewer, there will be more time to polish it.
>
> I has two reasons. (1) To try to get people to pay attention to the draft. 
> I've found that if I don't put a fairly-soon date on a draft, then everyone 
> seems to put it in the "I'll look at it later" pile and then never gets back 
> to it. :-)
>
> (2) I was under the impression (which I now realise was wrong) that we were 
> going to publicise the beta release, not wait until the "version 1" release.
>
> So let's polish the draft.
>
> And perhaps even more importantly, let's compile a list of who to send the 
> press release to, when the time comes. I have very few media contacts, I do 
> not want to get stuck with the job of developing a list of contacts, I do not 
> have a clue how to get a press release into the "system", and to be perfectly 
> honest I have very little interest in learning (even to help ODF).
>
> IMO, the Fellowship desperately needs a "press officer" to deal with stuff 
> like this, but I am not that person.
>
> Lars, the above rant is not aimed at you personally. Your note just gave me 
> the excuse to say it. :-)
>
> --Jean
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