1234116 - Publish information concerning new SeaMonkey release outside Mozilla universe

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Project Organization, defect)

Description

[Rainer Bielefeld]

_Because_ SeaMonkey has become rather unknown, we should try to get some more interest by publishing information concerning a new SeaMonkey release at places many users read. 
Please add possible publishing places and may be you cna start  a suggestion for a newspaper article at the mopad?

Comment 1

[Rainer Bielefeld]

May be Marketing is already busy?

Comment 2

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

I do not think I can change the user story or I am too dumb for it :)

How about 
http://www.computerbase.de

presse at computerbase.de

Usually more up to date than heise lately. 

FRG

Comment 3

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to Frank-Rainer Grahl from comment #2)
> I do not think I can change the user story or I am too dumb for it :)

I don't know which Bugzilla skin you're using. I'm using the Classing skin with JS enabled, and there I see an (edit) link immediately after the "User story" title. If you have editbugs privileges (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=permissions) you should see it too.

Comment 4

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

s/Classing/Classic/

Comment 5

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Seems I have no permissions so that explains it:)

>> You have the following permission bits set on your account:
>> everyone 	Everyone with a Bugzilla account

Comment 6

[Rainer Bielefeld]

(In reply to Frank-Rainer Grahl from comment #5)
Did you already ask for permissions upgrade to "editbugs" due to <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=get_permissions.html>?

Comment 7

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Attachment: Text Suggestion

Draft for announcements e-mail texts

Comment 8

[Philip Chee]

Step 1. Create a list of contacts for various tech-news sites and publications. And save it somewhere useful
Step 2. Write press releases. Apparently there is a standard format or template that can e used. To start off we could borrow what mozilla marketing uses.

Comment 9

[Rainer Bielefeld]

A draft with selected contact information:
<https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/rGtxLjP88y>
Please feel free to add more e-mail addresses.

MoPad is very cumbersome, I will find a better solution tomorrow

Comment 10

[Philip Chee]

(In reply to Rainer Bielefeld from comment #9)
> A draft with selected contact information:
> <https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/rGtxLjP88y>
> Please feel free to add more e-mail addresses.
> 
> MoPad is very cumbersome, I will find a better solution tomorrow
Try Mozilla pastebin or Mozilla wiki

Comment 11

[kmike]

news.softpedia.com has a frequently updated Linux/FOSS section:
http://news.softpedia.com/cat/Linux/
Story submission is here: http://www.softpedia.com/user/contact.php

However I think Seamonkey needs at least some kind of release notes to make a meaningful news story.

Comment 12

[Tristan Miller]

LWN https://lwn.net/ and Slashdot https://slashdot.org/ often run stories about new Firefox and Thunderbird releases. These could be added to the list of places to publicize new releases. For LWN, stories can be submitted by e-mail at [e-mail]. For Slashdot, stories can be submitted on the Web at https://slashdot.org/submission.