ThePressRoomTalk

About this page

My vision (MichaelCorbett) for this page is that this page would be first port of call for a journo/blogger wishing to write a story on Foswiki. It should therefore list:

• Press contact for the project (probably just an email address for privacy reasons)
• A list of all previous stories that have been written about Foswiki
• A list of pages that are "hot" i.e. include stuff that the journo/blogger might like to write about.

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I've written an article about twiki mentioning nextwiki for an german IT magazine called iX (as foswiki was not out at that moment of time).

Do we want to capture such publications as well? And where?

-- CarloSchulz - 19 Nov 2008 - 15:43

Sorry, but I am not sure where else to put it:

I just saw a report on open source software in business environment which is apparently is published yearly. TWiki is mentioned there and some other competition, too. Depending on how the community thinks about it, I think it could be an aim to be published there next year!

Here's the link: http://www.optaros.com/news/white-papers-reports/open-source-enterprise#docasu

-- SebastianKlus - 27 Nov 2008 - 19:53

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I used this mail to contact the german press for the release

Sehr geehrter  Muehle,

sie haben bereits vor 3 Monaten von Foswiki berichtet ( http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Twiki-net-vs-NextWiki-Freie-Entwickler-gehen-eigene-Wege--/meldung/118143 ).
Heute ist Foswiki 1.0.0 stable erschienen, der erste stable-Release der Foswiki-Community.

Ich würde sich herzlich bitten, wenn möglich, darüber einen Bericht zu schreiben. Die offizielle Pressemitteilung finden Sie unter : http://foswiki.org/Community/InitialReleasePressRelease#Deutsche_Pressemeldung_Der_Nachf

Informationen zum Release selbst finden Sie unter: http://foswiki.org/Download/WebHome

Darüber hinaus gibt es hier http://foswiki.org/Community/DescriptionsOfFoswiki eine kurze und längere Projektbeschreibungen.

Wenn Sie Informationen zu dem Fork suchen, finden Sie diese unter http://foswiki.org/Home/WhyThisFork

Sollten Sie Fragen haben, können Sie sich selbstverständlich an mich wenden.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Eugen Mayer - Foswiki Entwickler Team 

-- EugenMayer - 09 Jan 2009

Draft of a similar version in English:

Dear John Doe,

In October, 2008, the Foswiki project was born, forking from the TWiki project. Foswiki stands for "Free and Open Source Wiki" and it continues the tradition of a community-led project delivering a flexible collaboration tool that supports user-created applications.

On January 9, 2009, the first official release of Foswiki was made available for download at http://foswiki.org/Download/ . Our team would greatly appreciate it if you could write about Foswiki to help spread the news about this event.

The Foswiki team has worked hard to enhance the stability of the product, reviewing the software to improve its performance, security, robustness and maintainability. Since the start of the project, nearly 1900 code submissions have been made, preparing the way for new features and capabilities to be released. Foswiki maintains full backwards compatible support with TWiki, and has released a new architecture to enable future enhancements to better support mod_perl, as well as a standalone "Foswiki-on-a-stick" (that is, running a self-contained installation from a USB memory key). An advanced query-based search method has also been added.

For more information, see the following links:

Press release announcing first official release: http://foswiki.org/Community/InitialReleasePressRelease
Brief descriptions of Foswiki: http://foswiki.org/Community/DescriptionsOfFoswiki
Background information on the fork: http://foswiki.org/Home/WhyThisFork
Release highlights and download information: http://foswiki.org/Download/
Release notes: http://foswiki.org/System/ReleaseNotes01x00
Support:
   online: http://foswiki.org/Support
   IRC: http://foswiki.org/Community/InternetRelayChat
   mailing list: http://foswiki.org/Community/MailingLists

Thanks very much for your time and consideration. We appreciate any help you can provide to publicize the Foswiki project. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Yours truly,

Jane Doe
Foswiki development team
+123 456 789
janedoe@example.com

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i don't understand the split table---why do we have two tables in ThePressRoom? ?

-- WillNorris - 21 Apr 2009

Me neither.

-- MichaelDaum - 21 Apr 2009

Please find here - for the history and maybe to improve - the German 1.0.7 text I used in mails (if I had a name I replaced the "Redaktion" ):

Sehr geehrter Redaktion!

Am 20. September 2009 ist die Foswiki-Version 1.0.7 veröffentlicht worden. Foswiki („Free and Open Source Wiki“) ist ein freies Wiki-System und eine Kollaborationsplattform für Unternehmens-Intranets und öffentliche Umgebungen.

Die vollständige Pressemitteilung findet sich hier: http://foswiki.org/Community/PressReleaseFoswiki01x00x07#Deutsche_Pressemeldung_Foswiki_U

Ein zugehöriger englischsprachiger Foswiki-Blog Eintrag kann hier eingesehen werden: http://blog.foswiki.org/2009/09/foswiki-1-0-7-is-out/

Die originale Release-Nachricht findet sich unter: http://n2.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Release-of-Foswiki-version-1-0-7-td3682089.html#a3682089

Im Namen der Foswiki-Community möchte ich mich im Voraus für die Veröffentlichung dieser Mitteilung bedanken.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Ingo Kappler

-- IngoKappler - 25 Sep 2009