Press Release Process

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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.

Once initiated, the process will be driven by a member of the Visibility Committee. 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 foundation of the url by emailing dev@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org and board@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org.

3) Review and Approval

  • Review - members of the Board and Visibility Committee will have two days to review and comment on the content of the release.
  • Legal review - because the foundation is a legal representative (on the board alias), a quick review by our legal representative will also be performed. This need will be reduced depending on the content of the release and as we ascend the learning curve.
  • If other organizations are mentioned in the release, then they will also need to be included in the review process.

The review and approval process is driven by a member of the Visibility Committee, in concert with the initiator.

4) 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:

5) Translation

The final press release will be posted on the OSGeo site for translation by volunteers for localization and distribution to local news agencies.

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