PR planning

Overview

This page serves as a central location for GnuCash's PR planning. It is currently setup for the 2.2.0 release. See also gnucash-devel thread http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2007-May/020595.html

Here's the point: When 2.2.0 is released it will be a big deal. With this release we break into the mass market: Windows.

Milestones

1. Prepare release announcements (multiple languages: English, German. Any other? Brazil Portugese?)
2. Create tarballs
3. Build Windows installer
4. Website announcement -- all done as of 2007-07-16.
5. Distribute announcement to press

Release Announcements

English

See Announcement 2.2.0

German

See Announcement 2.2.0/de

Announcement Distribution

Please list all places we should provide announcements to. Also you should check http://www.google.de/search?q=gnucash+windows occasionally to see how many sites already picked up these news, even without any further press work from our side.

tech/IT sites

• lwn.net - http://lwn.net/Articles/241944/
• digg
• slashdot

German tech/IT sites

• heise.de - done --Cstim 04:37, 16 July 2007 (EDT) http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/92738
• golem.de - done --Cstim 04:37, 16 July 2007 (EDT) http://www.golem.de/0707/53511.html
• pro-linux.de - done --Cstim 04:37, 16 July 2007 (EDT) http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2007/11450.html

accounting/financial

•  ?

Magazines (German)

(indicate that they are free to include Gnucash on a cd)

• PC-Magazin <http://www.pc-magazin.de/> - done --Cstim 04:50, 16 July 2007 (EDT) http://www.pc-magazin.de/common/nws/einemeldung.php?id=53265 (albeit probably provided through golem.de above)
• PC-WELT <http://www.pcwelt.de/> - done --Cstim 04:50, 16 July 2007 (EDT)
• PC PR@XIS <http://www.pcintern.de/>, weiterleitend auf http://www.open-source-magazin.de/ - done --Cstim 04:50, 16 July 2007 (EDT)
• PC Professional <http://www.pc-professionell.de/>
• PCgo <http://www.pcgo.de/>
• com! Das Computer-Magazin <http://www.com-online.de/>
• Chip <http://www.chip.de/> - done --Cstim 07:25, 16 July 2007 (EDT)
• ComputerBILD <http://www.computerbild.de/> - done --Cstim 07:25, 16 July 2007 (EDT)

Also check for more:

• http://www.utils.ex.ac.uk/german/media/computer.html
• http://www.utils.ex.ac.uk/german/media/compdeu.html
• http://www.metagrid.de/Magazine/Computer_&_Internet/Computermagazine/

Press coverage, even without announcement sent:

• http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2960783

General News

• Reuters
• AP
• cbc.ca

German general news

• spiegel.de