This talk will give an overview of
what the Debian publicity team does
and how they work and how you can
support them.
Please give a warm round of applause to
Cédric Boutillier and his talk
"Debian, a giant with a tiny voice"
[Applause]
I'm sorry, I have a kind of technical
problem.
I don't remember the shortcut to bring
full screen in okular.
Ctrl-Shift-P… ok, thank you.
This is my first DebConf, so I would like
to take this opportunity to present myself
I'm Cédric Boutillier, I'm known as boutil
on IRC and I'm a Debian member
since 2012 and a couple of years before
that, I started contributing to Debian
as a member of the ruby team.
I also joined the french localization team
and I started to translate
some announcements and that's how I became
part of the publicity team.
What I will talk about today is
the structure of the publicity team,
the various services we are handling in
the team and how you can in fact
get involved in the team and promote
Debian through the publicity team.
So, what is the structure of the team.
It's a bit complicated because in fact the
publicity in Debian is for the moment
two teams: the Press team and the
Publicity team.
The members of the Press team are
delegated by the DPL and
they can speak in the name of the project
when it's needed
to contact for example journalists.
They have a private mail alias
press@debian.org and they serve as a
contact point for journalists and the
outside world.
And there is the Debian Publicity team,
which is much larger, but…
not much larger, larger but not as well
structured as the Press team.
We have a public mailing list,
debian-publicity@lists.debian.org
and an IRC channel, #debian-publicity.
And we should also include in this team
all the people doing reviews,
essentially translating our broken english
into proper english − Hello Justin −
and all the translators doing the work to
translate
various announcements in various
languages.
We have also in this Publicity team the
maintainers of the Debian blog,
more on that later, that are also
delegated by the DPL.
And in fact, we should also include the
whole project, because publicity is
the duty of the whole project and
everyone should be concerned by this.
I will now review the various tools we can
have in the team.
First, there are the press announcements.
They are published on the website in the
News/ subsection.
They inform journalists and users of
important changes and they are prepared
by the Press team and the Publicity team
and also with various involved teams when
there are specific changes.
It includes the news for the new releases
and some times also
news that are published in coordination
with other companies or
other projects.
These announcements are very a very
official way to communicate
about the project
and on the wiki, at the moment there is
some information about
how you could approach the team to propose
such an announcement.
There is another tool which is used
to publish communication about the project
in a less formal way.
It's the Debian blog, AKA bits.debian.org