Re: [libreoffice-marketing] New QA Site - Press Release?

Le dimanche 21 avril 2013 à 09:32 -0700, Joel Madero a écrit :
> Hi All,
>
> As some of you know the QA team has started to make a new site (thanks 
> to Florian :) ). The site will be on qa.libreoffice.org (currently not 
> available to the public but we hope to go live this week).
>
> I'm not sure if someone from marketing wants to do some kind of 
> statement about this. The main goal for the page is to make a 
> professional page where content which doesn't change often can be housed 
> (ie. things outside of wiki which we use for things that change 
> frequently). We as a team felt like it would be more professional and 
> easier to navigate for new contributors if we created our own subpage on 
> the qa.libreoffice.org url. Furthermore we wanted to give "shout outs" 
> to members who have contributed a lot as a small token of our gratitude 
> for their contributions to the project. The "QA Team" site will contain 
> short bios and a photo of QA members which have demonstrated commitment 
> to the project for some length of time and will continue contributing 
> into the foreseeable future. These bios will be about the person, not 
> about the project, this is to highlight the community as a whole 
> (including our lives outside of LibreOffice).
>
> Some other content that will be on the page is a general overview of QA 
> work, how to's for things like our mailing list and #libreoffice-qa IRC 
> channel, and OS specific content such as parallel installs on different 
> OS' (required for triaging purposes), the SI-GUI for Windows (created by 
> Florian) and links to tinderbox directories.
>
> We hope to encourage new contributors to get involved and this will be 
> our attempt to make a nice "launching site" for people thinking that 
> they want to contribute to LibreOffice to get involved with QA.
>
>
> If someone wants to tackle a short press release please let us know and 
> if there are questions don't hesitate to ask.
>
>
> Thanks all!
>
>
> Joel

A PR is one option; spreading the news via social networks, blogs and
foremost, our mailing lists is going to be key to gain volunteers and
let everybody know about the new QA portal.

Best,
-- 
Charles-H. Schulz
Co-Founder & Director, The Document Foundation,
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