From: ketil@spurv.ii.uib.no (Ketil M. Malde) Subject: Re: Who will handle publicity for Linux 1.0? Date: 29 Sep 1992 13:42:37 GMT
In article <1992Sep29.064528.27508@cc.tut.fi> jk87377@cc.tut.fi (Juhana Kouhia) writes:
Not everyone; there's no many magazines.
We should compile a list of magazines/journals appropriate for this
kind of announcing and decide who will send the press release
to target.
If everyone would send a letter to their favourite magazine, it
may happen that the magazine will not publish anything, because
they think that we are trying to just make harm to them by sending
N+1 announces to them (after three letters they will be stroking
letters to garbage box).
OK, so this is what we'll do, to get wider coverage of LINUX in
magazines:
We'll collect (electronically) names and email adresses from all the
people who DEMAND coverage of linux, and why not Gnu-stuff and other
free unix software. Then we'll present the lists to the magazines in
question, and DEMAND, DEMAND, DEMAND. Saves us (as a whole) postage,
too.
Now all we need is someone willing to organize the whole thing...
Btw, will this be the first time something like this has been done
electronically?
Also newspapers loves titles like "Real computer operating system
reaches home computers for free". At least, our newspapers have
science&nature stories weekly.
Perhaps...I wonder if this is too technical for common newspapers,
though. Also, the target group is better reached through the computer
mags.