Spreading Fedora News

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= Standard operating procedure for publicising Fedora news =

The following is the list of sites which accept news blurbs, stories, reviews and press releases as marked appropriately. The open issues needs to be discussed in a meeting.

Red Hat Press
Red Hat Press information for Fedora is handled by Leigh Cantrell Day. Drop a mail to communications AT redhat.com for any Fedora related news that you need to keep in Red Hat Marketing in the loop. RahulSundaram takes care of this.

Fedora Community Contact

 * Fedora announcement list - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate
 * Fedora forum - http://fedoraforum.org
 * Fedora Weekly News Contact Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley or Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
 * Planet Fedora blogs http://planet.fedoraproject.org

Other Websites

 * http://lwn.net/op/FAQ.lwn#contact - (accepts [mailto:lwn@lwn.net news] ,[mailto:pr@lwn.net PR] and [mailto:letters@lwn.net letters] )
 * http://distrowatch.com/ -  distro@distrowatch.com
 * http://osnews.com/submit.php (accepts news, original reviews)
 * http://linuxtoday.com/contribute.php3 (accepts PR and news)
 * http://lxer.com/module/newswire/stories/ (accepts PR and news)
 * http://www.newsforge.com/submit.pl (accepts PR, original stories and reviews)
 * http://slashdot.org/ - Register and submit (news and original book reviews)

Gather information

 * Important new developments, projects and releases - Follow development, test, Java development, live cd and other mailing lists and publicise news worthy stuff. If in doubt, submit.
 * Events - Marketing list
 * Press Releases - Marketing list
 * Distribution reviews - Print, online - Potentially all news sites.
 * Books?

Open Issues

 * Covering magazine reviews
 * Understanding book reviews
 * Looking at Fedora related books and guides