[Incubator] Re: [Web Comm] MapBuilder 1.0 Release

[Cameron Shorter]

Frank,
Could you give me a list of email addresses that we should notify and 
I'll get Matt, our release engineer to incorporate it into the 
Mapbuilder release process.

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Cameron Shorter wrote:
> 
>> Frank, I'll forward our announcement through to Daniel.  (Our 1.0 
>> release went out yesturday).
>>
>> For future, I will subscribe webcom to the mapbuilder announce email 
>> list (which we currently only use for release announcements).  I 
>> suggest someone does the same for other projects.
>>
>> Daniel, who is "visibility"?
> 
> 
> Cameron,
> 
> Daniel is referring to the Promotion and Visibility committee.  Amoung 
> other
> things they are responsible for handling formal press releases.
> 
>   https://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org/
>   http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Promotion_and_Visibility_Committee
> 
> I think we would only try and put out a formal press release for really 
> major
> releases but I certainly think that version 1.0 of MapBuilder qualifies.
> This is something you would need to work with them to prepare.
> 
> I think we can have a "lower bar" for news items on the osgeo main page.
> 
> By the way, I think we might want to put up news items on the osgeo.org
> web page for projects we consider "friends of the foundation".  This might
> include stuff like GeoServer, or PostGIS.  Projects we consider to be
> "part of the stack" even if they aren't formal OSGeo projects.  Generally
> speaking these would be projects we would like to recruit some day.
> 
> Best regards,


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Cameron Shorter
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