Re: Draft #6: Semi-Final

Josh - just as an aside, and by no means am I saying that you should only
cater to US press, but Sept. 1 is a holiday in the US. Typically most people
are on vacation and your release will get lost while people are out. Also
keep in mind weekly tech trade deadlines are usually Wednesdays so you need
to have the release out by Tuesday AM.

So I'd suggest releasing either on Sept. 2, 8, or 9.

Just my $.02.

-Heather

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Josh Berkus
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 11:27 AM
To: Postgresql Advocacy
Subject: [pgsql-advocacy] Draft #6: Semi-Final


Folks,

Attached is Draft #6 of the press release.  This will either be the last or
the next-to-last draft.

Here's what we still need:

1) Rod -- I still need PR contact information for your company.

2) Given that I haven't seen anything from Marc or Geoff, I'll assume that
PGSQL Inc. is *not* doing a seperate replication announcement.   If they do,
the Replication paragraph will get cut.

3) Who should be our contact(s)?   For e-mail, press@postgresql.org is fine.
For non-english versions, the translator will be the contact.  But we need
people willing to take phone calls about PostgreSQL.   I can do it in the
US;
we should also have one person in Australia and one in Europe.   Volunteers?

4) Speaking of which, who's lead for the Japanese PostgreSQL community?

5) Revisions to the release:  we are NOT going to add anything at this
point.
Suggestions on stuff to CUT, however, are welcome, the release is too bloddy
long.  Also spelling and grammatical corrections.

6) IMPORTANT: Heather is absolutely right, we need a "Press introduction"
page
to send people to from the press release.  This should include:
    - The release (again)
    - links to the advocacy site
    - links to download locations
    - links to a few articles which laud PostgreSQL.
Is anyone available to do this?

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco