Ubuntu-ie Digest, Vol 18, Issue 12

Bob Jolliffe bobjolliffe at gmail.com
Thu Mar 19 15:48:24 GMT 2009


Chucking my oar in late ....

I think it sounds like a pretty good idea to have a "press team" in
the sense of a group of people who are interested in:

(1) developing good press contacts with friendly journalists - when we
have a good story do we know who to pitch it to?
(2) researching and practising techniques of dealing with the press.
There's a lot to learn here.

Dealing with the press (and getting the maximum benefit and exposure
from it) is a sufficiently involved process that having a team
dedicate some effort to it can only be a good thing.  I don't think
this necessarily implies fragmentation of effort.  If that is a
genuine fear one can also think of such a team as a temporary thing -
more of a project than an institutional arrangement perhaps.

Regards
Bob

2009/3/19 Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan at yahoo.ie>:
> Well the point of mailing the mailing list was to get dialogue going and
> in that regard it this was a good exercise. It would be good to get some
> media attention in Ireland about Ubuntu but I do agree with the points
> that have been made. We will all contribute to media exposure in
> whatever way we can but not actually have a team for instance events
> like release parties or the barcamp.
>
> On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 12:00 +0000, ubuntu-ie-request at lists.ubuntu.com
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>>    1. press team (Sean McCann)
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>> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:20:40 +0000
>> From: Sean McCann <sean.mccann at gmail.com>
>> Subject: press team
>> To: ubuntu-ie at lists.ubuntu.com
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>> Everyone
>>
>> Its a good discussion. I agree with Rory about not stopping people who
>> are passionate from writing about stuff they love.
>>
>> Paul is also correct in saying that it makes sense to leverage the
>> already existing resources available. There is probably not enough
>> people to form a press release team, but like most things once someone
>> gets the ball rolling others will join in. It might be more of an ad hoc
>> thing.
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>> Sean
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>> >    1. Re: Formation of a press release team (Rory McCann)
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>> > Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:41:08 +0000
>> > From: Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org>
>> > Subject: Re: Formation of a press release team
>> > To: Maciej Danielski <mdanielski at ubuntu.com>
>> > Cc: Ubuntu Irish Team <ubuntu-ie at lists.ubuntu.com>
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>> > Although I don't think we *need* an explicit Press Release team, I don't
>> > really think it's my place (or anyone's) to stop people following their
>> > interests.
>> >
>> > If you're interested in doing press stuff, and writing up all that, then
>> > do it!
>> >
>> > Paul has some very good practical advise aswell. Feel free to thown some
>> > thoughts into a wiki / pastebin and start asking people for advise.
>> >
>> >
>> > Rory
>> >
>> >
>> > On 17/03/09 08:59, Maciej Danielski wrote:
>> > > It might be correct what you're both saying, but I think it doesn't
>> > > change the fact that we should be more pro-active with ubuntu advocacy
>> > > and FOSS in general.
>> > >
>> > > This is also a great resource: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoMediaCoverage
>> > >
>> > > "Make our case appeal to reporters. Tie the issue to other topics of
>> > > interest. What are the financial issues? Is taxpayers? money being
>> > > wasted? Are jobs being lost? Are the alternatives to proprietary
>> > > software better for the economy? Make it interesting to someone who
>> > > doesn?t give damn."
>> > >
>> > > The question remains: What are we going to do?
>> > >
>> > > Kind regards,
>> > > Maciej Danielski aka Mean-Machine
>> > >
>> > > http://www.ubuntu-ie.org/
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Laura Czajkowski <laura at lczajkowski.com
>> > > <mailto:laura at lczajkowski.com>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >     I've to agree with paul here also. No point in spreading ourselves thin.
>> > >     Concentrate on doing things in a small group. We can link to large
>> > >     groups such as the links Paul suggested.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >     You don't need to create sub groups to promote ubuntu here, we have the
>> > >     mailing list, irc and wiki, maybe more face to face meets ups are in
>> > >     order instead of creating these kinda things.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >     just my 2 cents on the job.
>> > >
>> > >     Laura
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >     Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix - wrote:
>> > >
>> > >     > Shane Fagan wrote:
>> > >     >
>> > >     >> Hi all,
>> > >     >>
>> > >     >> >From talk on #ubuntu-ie on IRC we have decided to make a press
>> > >     team for
>> > >     >> ubuntu-ie. Getting Ubuntu known around Ireland is the main idea
>> > >     behind
>> > >     >> the team. If anyone is interested in volunteer either reply to this
>> > >     >> email or ask on the IRC channel all ideas and imput welcome.
>> > >     >>
>> > >     >
>> > >     > this seems slightly identical to the function of ubuntu-ie
>> > >     >
>> > >     > there are not enough people to justify a separate grouping as far as I
>> > >     > can see
>> > >     >
>> > >     >
>> > >     https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActivismGuide?action=show&redirect=ActivismHowTo
>> > >     <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActivismGuide?action=show&redirect=ActivismHowTo>
>> > >     >
>> > >     > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam
>> > >     >
>> > >     > just linking into a bigger group who are doing more might benefit more
>> > >     >
>> > >     > note the meetup date on the "activisim loco" there should be a change
>> > >     > soon enough
>> > >     >
>> > >     >
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