[Media] Welcome

[Kathy Reid]

Hiya Brianna,

Huge thanks to yourself and the others interested in getting the Media 
and Communications Subcommittee up and running.

I've had a go at putting together a few paragraphs for a first 
newsletter if people would like to build on it?

http://wiki.linux.org.au/MediaTeam:Newsletter/2013April

Re: the outline of stuff in a newsletter, this was part of the Face to 
Face minutes, just copying and pasting to add more info;

The draft charter for the Media SubCommittee was reviewed.

http://wiki.linux.org.au/Roles_and_things


Council discussed the role of Media SubCommittee


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    Newsletter

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    Press releases

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    Maintaining a list of journalists

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    Maintaining a list of mailing lists

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    Maintaining a list of Calls for Papers

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    Sourcing feedback from the community

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    Assisting with Social Media - Twitter, Facebook.


Council discussed some of the the things that could be in the Newsletter


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    Calls for Papers

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    Upcoming events

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    Highlights of blogs and social media posts

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    LUG of the month

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    Podcast of the month

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    Links to the minutes

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    Links to videos of confs

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    Highlight community member / interview

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    NO CLIPART!


Kind regards,
Kathy


On 27/03/13 18:47, Brianna Laugher wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Welcome to the mailing list for the media subctte. Just want to
> quickly get things started before too much more time passes.
>
> A few weeks ago I went to the ctte F2F (face to face) meeting where
> they had a media trainer and we discussed what the role of the media
> subctte would be. One thing the council is quite keen on is the idea
> of a regular newsletter, which I also think is a great idea. LA does
> lots of cool stuff but you often don't hear about it. For a media
> subctte it is also a good task as it has us regularly writing things
> and making connections between people and so on, which is helpful for
> when genuine press release-worthy events spring up.
>
> Kathy had an outline of what might be included in a newsletter which I
> don't think has been published anywhere yet, but I put a few pieces
> together at
> http://wiki.linux.org.au/MediaTeam:Newsletter (see the Template for
> what I have so far). What I think could work is if we use the wiki to
> develop the newsletter together each month, then officially 'publish'
> it via the Drupal website.
>
> You should be able to log in to the wiki with your memberdb details,
> but you will need to ask Clinton (CCed) to add you to the media team
> to see/edit those pages, I believe.
>
> How does this sound to people? Do you have some cool ideas for
> features in the newsletter?
>
> cheers,
> Brianna
>
> PS. The archives for this list are public. :)
>


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Kathy Reid
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