[ubuntu-us] [ubuntu-marketing] News Wire Services

[Martin Owens]

On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 14:33 -0700, Grant Bowman wrote:
> I feel distributing the press releases in the US is an important step
> in reaching all US (perhaps wider) press outlets and raising Ubuntu's
> exposure.  More than Red Hat or SuSE Enterprise Linux is being used in
> the US though it's hard for average journalists to tell if only Red
> Hat, Fedora & Novell are sending press releases.  The cost to
> distribute a press release via the PR Newswire or Business Wire is a
> few hundred dollars per press release depending on exactly how it's
> distributed.  Surely the impact of this could be widely leveraged by
> all LoCos in the US and beyond.

Knowing more details about the concept and idea, I'm willing to support
it, I'm bring it up at our next meeting and see about getting together
some money.

> Are there any further thoughts on how to make this happen for Karmic?

We're going to need concrete prices and some really good press release
writers, I have one or two here who are awesome if required.

Regards, Martin Owens