[UbuntuWomen] publicizing a conference

Wed Nov 1 16:25:24 UTC 2006

Catherine,

This may be somethin Tina Gasperson would cover.  Submit your info to her
directly at http://gasperson.com.  Maybe you've heard of her, she writes a
lot for OSTG publications.

Hope this helps.  :)

Michelle

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> From: "Catherine Devlin" <catherine.devlin at gmail.com>
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> Hello, ladies!
>
> Well, I've volunteered to be "publicity coordinator" for PyCon 2007.  The
> fact that I know absolutely nothing about publicity wasn't about to stop
> me!  I thought I might ask for advice or resources here... have any of you
> worked on publicizing open-source events before?  Your experiences would
> probably be very relevant to PyCon - the parameters of the problem are the
> same (low budget, but lots of enthusiasm and creativity).
>
> So far, the plan is to create press releases for a variety of print
> journals
> and websites that serve the community of interest... but I've never
> written
> a press release before, and I've certainly never gotten one into the
> hands/inbox of the right people.  We're not necessarily planning any more
> elaborate publicity - in previous years it's been just word-of-mouth,
> blogs,
> and mailing lists - but I'd be happy to change that if we get any really
> good ideas.
>
> It would be especially nice to draw in a good crop of students from
> campuses
> local to the conference area.  We offer cheap student rates, but it's been
> hard to get students in the past - you know, they're all too busy working
> on
> their assigned class projects (usually on Microsoft-"donated" software,
> bleah.)  Ideas for catching their attention would be especially nice.
>
> Thanks so much for your suggestions and thoughts!
>
> (Oh, and I'm not neglecting Ubuntu itself while I'm at this.  My current
> ambition is to start pushing updated packages to the Universe where it's
> fallen behind.  For instance, I think that the Mercurial project is on
> version 0.7.1 whereas the Universe is at 0.3.  So I'm studying the Masters
> of the Universe section of the Wiki.)
>
> - Catherine
> http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/
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> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:41:17 -0300
> From: "Marcelle Soares-Santos" <marcellesantos at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [UbuntuWomen] publicizing a conference
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> catherine,
>
> I think the first lesson you should lean is:
> give people information about whatever you want to publicize!
>
> What is PyCon 2007 ???
>
> well, the only think I can conclude from the lack of this information
> is that a person like me, who has no idea of what is that event about
> (or where is it going to take place, etc.), is not supposed to be part
> of your "target public" (I'm not sure if this expression exists in
> English, but I'm sure you've got the meaning). Or even worst: that
> they do not even deserve to be properly informed about it. Sounds
> like: "if you don't know, you are not one of us, so, I do not care
> about you."
>
> when talking to a diverse and mainly unknown public, you should not
> suppose that everyone is one of your coleagues or neighbours or
> something. I believe there are people from many different countries in
> this list! and that few of them are not so deeply involved with...
> whatever is the subject of your conference/event/workshop...
>
> sorry if I sound agressive, but I only intend to make my disappointment
> clear.
> marcelle.
>
> On 10/31/06, Catherine Devlin <catherine.devlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello, ladies!
> >
> > Well, I've volunteered to be "publicity coordinator" for PyCon
> 2007.  The
> > fact that I know absolutely nothing about publicity wasn't about to stop
> me!
> >  I thought I might ask for advice or resources here... have any of you
> > worked on publicizing open-source events before?  Your experiences would
> > probably be very relevant to PyCon - the parameters of the problem are
> the
> > same (low budget, but lots of enthusiasm and creativity).
> >
> > So far, the plan is to create press releases for a variety of print
> journals
> > and websites that serve the community of interest... but I've never
> written
> > a press release before, and I've certainly never gotten one into the
> > hands/inbox of the right people.  We're not necessarily planning any
> more
> > elaborate publicity - in previous years it's been just word-of-mouth,
> blogs,
> > and mailing lists - but I'd be happy to change that if we get any really
> > good ideas.
> >
> > It would be especially nice to draw in a good crop of students from
> campuses
> > local to the conference area.  We offer cheap student rates, but it's
> been
> > hard to get students in the past - you know, they're all too busy
> working on
> > their assigned class projects (usually on Microsoft-"donated" software,
> > bleah.)  Ideas for catching their attention would be especially nice.
> >
> > Thanks so much for your suggestions and thoughts!
> >
> > (Oh, and I'm not neglecting Ubuntu itself while I'm at this.  My current
> > ambition is to start pushing updated packages to the Universe where it's
> > fallen behind.  For instance, I think that the Mercurial project is on
> > version 0.7.1 whereas the Universe is at 0.3.  So I'm studying the
> Masters
> > of the Universe section of the Wiki.)
> >
> > - Catherine
> > http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/
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> >
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