Re: [Randa] Text for registration page launch this week

Cornelius Schumacher <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.events
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday 17 March 2011 13:28:56 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
> 
> As Cornelius said, it's a bit unusual to pre-announce a sprint on the Dot.
> However, I think the new sprint manager application is newsworthy, so you
> (or someone else) could write a story along these lines:
> 
> - KDE has a new sprint manager app and this is cool because...
> - The first test/use of the app is the Randa sprint, which is about
> - Nepomuk is cool and there will be a set of articles coming about it
> 
> Then the headline is something like:
> 
> "New Sprint Manager App Gains first Use for Randa Sprint"
> 
> Sound ok?

Frankly, I would rather focus PR around sprints in general, and also the Randa 
sprints specifically, on showing results of the sprints. This is what is 
really interesting to the community, to the people who support us, and to the 
outside world.

Sprints are community driven, so attention for the sprints should rather go 
through the specific channels of the teams doing the sprints. That's way more 
effective.

The sprint manager app might be cool, but this is an administration tool for 
us. At this state I would find it premature to write news stories about it. 
Maybe when it has proven to enhance our productivity, it would be great to 
report about it, but now this isn't something which is very interesting to the 
world in general.

And for the set of articles about Nepomuk, I would love to read the articles 
itself, and not an announcement that they are coming.

Randa is a sprint, or rather a set of sprints, and the purpose of sprints is 
to get stuff done, to be productive, to build community. Early publicity 
doesn't really help with that, it might even be counter-productive. So I think 
we don't need to spend much time on writing dot stories right now, and rather 
should use the time for the actual preparation of the sprints.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <[email protected]>
 
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