Difference between revisions of "Press Release Process"

Revision as of 14:36, 2 May 2006

Press Release Process - Draft

The goal is to have a simple and understandable process for creating, reviewing and issuing press releases. Feel free to contribute your thoughts and experience.

There are five basic steps:

1) Conception

Something newsworthy happens - a new software release, for example. The owner of said event wishes to publish this development to a wider audience.

2) Creation

The owner of the newsworthy event or their proxy writes the release to the wiki using a standard template (to come), and notifies the Visibility Committee of the url by emailing dev@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org

3) Review

Legal review - because the foundation is a legal entity, a quick review by our legal representative is required.

If other organizations are mentioned in the release, then they will also need to be included in the review process.

Open question: is the review process driven by VisCom or the creator?

4) Approval

By VisCom or board?

5) Distribution

The press release gets published to the osgeo-news-publisher alias. This alias will be seeded with journalists and others known to be interested in OSGeo activities, to include:

submit.news@consortiuminfo.org (see: http://www.consortiuminfo.org/bulletins/ ).
DirectionsMag online
Slashgeo online
GeoPlace.com online

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 == Press Release Process - Draft ==
-The goal is to have a simple and understandable for creating, reviewing and issuing press releases. Feel free to contribute your thoughts and experience.
+The goal is to have a simple and understandable process for creating, reviewing and issuing press releases. Feel free to contribute your thoughts and experience.
 There are five basic steps: