<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Team,</div><div><br></div><div>I've started a draft of the release announcement that is to go on the website at the link below.</div><div><a href="https://xubuntu.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=4804&action=edit">https://xubuntu.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=4804&action=edit</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Yousuf<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 7:30 PM Yousuf Philips <<a href="mailto:ypharis@gmail.com">ypharis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Team,</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to bring to everyone's attention that if we can to publish release notes at the time of betas, like other flavors did (e.g. <a href="https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-focal-fossa-release-notes/" target="_blank">ubuntu mate</a>), that this will help improve the marketing of the release.</div><div><br></div><div>In <a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/04/ubuntu-20-04-flavours-whats-new" target="_blank">OMG Ubuntu's post</a> about the release, Joe said "<i>I can’t find any releases notes for Xubuntu 20.04 beta and as I’m not familiar with the release on a day-to-day basis, I don’t feel confident at guessing what’s new beyond the inclusion of a new dark theme.</i>"</div><div><br></div><div>In the <a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/04/ubuntu-20-04-flavours-whats-new#comment-4861843966" target="_blank">comments of the same post</a>, Joe said "<i>... Should any other flavours be reading this: I am not the only blogger who relies on what you put out*, so subtle plea: please include a couple of high quality "this is what the desktop looks like by default" screenshots in your release notes/blog posts/tweets. We will use them!</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>*The more pointed your release notes are, the more likely you are to get coverage.</i>" <a href="https://imgur.com/HXNK6qZ.png" target="_blank">https://imgur.com/HXNK6qZ.png</a></div><div><br></div><div>This discussion also landed on twitter, where <a href="https://twitter.com/killyourfm/status/1247043105632792576" target="_blank">Jason Evangelho mentioned</a>, "<i>A recent post at @omgubuntu got some flak because a couple Ubuntu flavors didn't have screenshots included. Yet again this is where I preach the value of marketing, even simple things like having good assets for press. Yes, it matters. The easier you make it to show off your Linux distro or software, the easier it will be for press to cover it.</i>"</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Yousuf<br></div></div>
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