Press Release Process

Press Release Process - Under Development

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

There are four basic steps:

• Conception:

Something newsworthy happens. A new software release or event, for example.

• Creation:

Someone associated with the newsworthy event writes the release to the wiki, and notifies the Visibility Committee by emailing dev@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org

• Review:

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

Approval - by VisCom or board?

• Distribution:

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.