EOL announcements

[Corey Burger]

On 10/31/06, Matthew Copple <mcopple at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 02:10, Corey Burger wrote:
>
> > This leads me to believe the following: If LWN did not pick it up, it
> > is a fair bet it didn't get widely circulated enough. With that in
> > mind, can we resend the EOL announcement to -announce and make it part
> > of policy that EOL announcements go to both?
>
> Does Ubuntu have a PR team? If you want something covered in the press, it is
> generally a good idea to send it to them -- with so many outlets for
> information, it would be easy to miss an announcement on a random
> announcement mailing list.

Umm, given I do a great deal in the existing Marketing team, I think I
can safely say that there is no current PR team as such. However, that
is kind of besides the point. These sorts of announcements, because
they are from Canonical to the world, need to come from Canonical
people. Which excludes me.

Corey