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