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* The publicity team moderate news and announcements in all the Debian official resources: * mailing lists of general interest, such as debian-announce and debian-news (but not the the localized -news-$lang mailing lists) |
''From [[https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/09/msg00007.html|Updating delegation - Press/Publicity/Bits]], by the DPL, September 2015'': * The publicity team moderate news and announcements in all the Debian official resources: * mailing lists of general interest, such as debian-announce and debian-news (but not the the localized -news-$lang mailing lists) |
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* The team is also responsible for the maintenance of the News part of the English version of the Debian website (i.e. the content currently located under webwml/english/News/). * The team is in charge of deciding the most suitable publication venue or venues for announcements and when they are published. * Team members must word articles in a way that reflects the Debian project's stance on issues rather than their own personal opinion. |
* The team is also responsible for the maintenance of the News part of the English version of the Debian website (i.e. the content currently located under webwml/english/News/). * The team is in charge of deciding the most suitable publication venue or venues for announcements and when they are published. * Team members must word articles in a way that reflects the Debian project's stance on issues rather than their own personal opinion. |
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* Finally, the Publicity Team is the official Debian contact point for press inquiries and media people outside Debian. When acting in such capacity, members of the team act as a spokesperson of the Debian Project. * Reference: [[https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/09/msg00007.html|Updating the Press Team delegation]], by the DPL, September 2015 |
* Finally, the Publicity Team is the official Debian contact point for press inquiries and media people outside Debian. When acting in such capacity, members of the team act as a spokesperson of the Debian Project. |
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= Policies/guidelines = == Current == * Neutrality: "Team members must word articles in a way that reflects the Debian project's stance on issues rather than their own personal opinion." * Reference: [[https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/09/msg00007.html|Updating delegation - Press/Publicity/Bits]], by the DPL, September 2015 == Under discussion == * [[https://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2011/08/msg00014.html|Reviewing guideline]]. Proposed by chealer |
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Debian Publicity Team
Contents
Task description
From Updating delegation - Press/Publicity/Bits, by the DPL, September 2015:
- The publicity team moderate news and announcements in all the Debian official resources:
- mailing lists of general interest, such as debian-announce and debian-news (but not the the localized -news-$lang mailing lists)
- the official blog of the Debian project, "Bits from Debian"
- any official social media of the project
- and any other channels where Debian gets an official online presence.
- The team is also responsible for the maintenance of the News part of the English version of the Debian website (i.e. the content currently located under webwml/english/News/).
- The team is in charge of deciding the most suitable publication venue or venues for announcements and when they are published.
- Team members must word articles in a way that reflects the Debian project's stance on issues rather than their own personal opinion.
- Finally, the Publicity Team is the official Debian contact point for press inquiries and media people outside Debian. When acting in such capacity, members of the team act as a spokesperson of the Debian Project.
Services handled by the team
Latest News (maintenance of the "News" part of the English version of the Debian website (i.e. the content currently located under webwml/english/News/)).
Moderation of announcement mailing lists of general interest, such as debian-announce and debian-news (but not the the localized -news-$lang mailing lists).
Debian Project News (DPN)
Debian News wiki page.
Handle the mail received at press@debian.org
Infrastructure
Alioth Project: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/publicity
Unix group: publicity (needed to trigger a partial rebuild on wolkenstein.debian.org, after having committed new announcements)
Interacting with the team
Contact points
Email: debian-publicity@lists.debian.org (public list, for general stuff)
Email: press@debian.org (private mail, contact for journalists and media, and announcements that need to be kept in private until released)
IRC: #debian-publicity on irc.debian.org (OFTC)
How to use publicity "services"
Developer information explains how to use press/publicity facilities.
Get involved
Help with the promotion of the Releases
Contribute to Debian Project News
Find a topic for a DPN entry.
Redact a DPN entry.
Detailed info about how to contribute to Debian Project News
Translate announcements and press releases
Translate draft communications (press releases, DPN editions).
Detailed info about how to translate announcements and press releases
Announcement workflow - Please note that if the announcement to be sent is to be kept private until the release, it should be handled via mail to press@debian.org .
Promote Debian
Tracking press coverage
Look for news from the press and update press coverage pages. You can use these links to gather news about Debian and potential success stories:
Other tasks
Review draft communications. Verify exactitude, relevance and proper form (language, etc).
Submit events to the Debian timeline.
Other projects (may require more involvement)
Contact people, interview and propose drafts of success stories to be published.
Follow other groups, and ensure those with newsworthy activity are properly covered. Make sure they communicate and do so optimally (going through the publicity group when appropriate).
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?)
Meetings
See the Meetings page.
Historical communications about publicity
Updating delegation - Press/Publicity/Bits, by the DPL, September 2015
Bits from the Publicity Team, November 2014
Updating the Press Team delegation, by the DPL, January 2014
Bits from Publicity Team (aka: We are alive!), September 2010
Let's resurrect Debian Weekly News (act the second), April 2010
Let's resurrect Debian Weekly News, April 2008
Policies/guidelines
Current
- Neutrality: "Team members must word articles in a way that reflects the Debian project's stance on issues rather than their own personal opinion."
Reference: Updating delegation - Press/Publicity/Bits, by the DPL, September 2015
Under discussion
Reviewing guideline. Proposed by chealer
Usual roles
The listing below includes regular contributors also.
DPL-Delegated members
Ana Guerrero Lopez <ana>
Cédric Boutillier <boutil>
Donald Norwood (<cnote> in IRC)
Laura Arjona Reina <larjona>
Reference: Updating delegation - Press/Publicity/Bits, by the DPL, September 2015
Persons with access to Debian's identi.ca account
- buxy
- Martin 'Joey' Schulze
Neil McGovern
- Cédric Boutillier
- Ana Beatriz Guerrero López
- Donald Norwood
Current members
- Moray Allan (IRC nick moray) Editor of Debian Project News
Laura Arjona (IRC nick larjona)
- Cédric Boutillier (IRC nick boutil) Editor of Debian Project News
Valessio S Brito (IRC nick valessio) Helps with Artwork and Marketing Strategy
Raphaël Hertzog handles identi.ca Debian account
- Filipus Klutiero (IRC nick chealer) - reviewer
- Donald Norwood (IRC nick cnote)
- Justin B Rye Main reviewer of Debian Project News and announcements
- Paul Wise (IRC nick pabs)
Stefano Zacchiroli (IRC nick zack)
- Martin Zobel-Helas (IRC nick zobel)
- Thomas Vincent (IRC nick tvincent)
- Kai Wasserbäch
Emeritus Publicity Team members
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl (IRC nick Tolimar)
- Meike Riechle (IRC nick alphascorpii)
- Andreas Barth
- Joey Schulze
- Michael Banck
- Lucas Nussbaum
- Graham Cobb - proof-reading
- Martin F. Krafft
- Don Armstrong
- Jeff Richards
- Jon Evans
- Marc Brockschmidt
- Jens Seidel
- Joey Hess
AndreFelipeMachado - Debian Times contributing editor and press coverage pages maintainer contributor
- Jeremiah C. Foster
Emeritus Press Team members
- Martin Schulze (IRC nick joey)
Neil McGovern (IRC nick Maulkin)
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl (IRC nick Tolimar)
- Meike Riechle (IRC nick alphascorpii)
Francesca Ciceri (IRC nick ?MadameZou)
Other
Press team (old, now redirects here)
?This Week on IRC
Spam Clean: coordinating the cleaning of spam from the debian-publicity mailing list