Debian Press Team

Infrastructure

• Alioth Project: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/publicity

Unix group: press (needed to trigger a partial rebuild on wolkenstein.debian.org, after having committed new announcements)

• Services handled by the team:

  • Debian News and press coverage services

Interacting with the team

• Email contact: press@debian.org

Usual roles

DPL-Delegated members

• Francesca Ciceri (IRC nick MadameZou)

• Martin Schulze (IRC nick joey)

• Neil McGovern (IRC nick Maulkin)

2012-03-21: Delegation for the Press Team, by the DPL

Assistants

• Paul Wise (IRC nick pabs)

• Moray Allan (IRC nick moray)
• Kai Wasserbäch

Emeritus members

• Alexander Reichle-Schmehl (IRC nick Tolimar)

• Meike Riechle (IRC nick alphascorpii)

Task description

The Press Team is the main contact point for press and media people outside Debian: members of the team speak for the project and in the best interest of the project.

In addition, members of the team moderate mails send to th debian-announce@lists.debian.org and debian-news@lists.debian.org mailing lists (but not the localized -news-$lang mailing lists).

The Press team also control everything under webwml/english/News: there's no strict access control but per agreement new files are added only by members of Press Team (and sometimes members of the Publicity Team).

Please note that if the announcement to be sent is not to be kept private until the release, we prefer to draft and work on it via Publicity Team.

Other stuff

TODO

• Difference between debian-announce and debian-news (see this thread for info: http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2012/02/msg00055.html)

• Improve communication with press people (list of journalists?)

Misc

• For announcement workflow and best practices, please see the announcement howto