Nutch 2.0 Press Announcement

[Lewis John Mcgibbney <le...@gmail.com>]

Good Evening Sally,

First and foremost I hope you are keeping well and that the beginning
of the summer has been kind to you... all the good weather still to
come not to worry :0)

The reason I contact you is that we (the Apache Nutch community) are
nearly ready to release Nutch 2.0 which represents a pretty
significant milestone for Apache Nutch as a project. Although Nutch
2.0 is not considered as main stream development (a decision made by
the PMC some time ago) it still marks a real step forward for the
project as a whole and also pays serious merit to users, developers
and committers past and present. Due top these reasons I think it
would be excellent for the community if we could really get the
message out that the project is rocking in addition to the fact that
it is an excellent, well followed, vibrant TLP within the foundation.

I wonder if it would be possible for us to get a formal press
announcement constructed based on input from ourselves in
collaboration with your experience in this area?

I am coming into the official press releases from an almost blind
tangent so would really appreciate your guidance and input on this one
if possible.

Thanks in advance for any input you have.

Best

Lewis

N.B Please anyone from dev@ chime in on this thread. I personally feel
the better an announcement, the more our community grows. Thank you

Re: Nutch 2.0 Press Announcement

[Sally Khudairi <sk...@apache.org>]

Hello Lewis --great to hear from you, as always. Hello Nutch DevTeam!

Of course; I'm happy to help. What's your timeframe?

Traditionally, these sorts of announcements are usually something I work with the PMC on, vs. dev (no offense, folks, it's more of an issue of "public" exposure prior to the announcement being made). Whatever works best for you is fine...I'm flexible.

Having said that, what is your timeframe? In other words, has v2.0 already been releases (I hope not!). Also, if you would like to include supporting testimonial quotes from highly-visible users (organizations), we are going to have to plan to set aside at least a week for those to come in (some companies have strict vetting/clearance requirements by their legal teams).

And finally, in an ideal situation, we'll work on the announcement together (usually there's a point-person assigned to take the lead on this, and we'll run drafts by the list during the final editing stages) so I can get a better grasp of the project and be able to highlight what's new/important/sexy/*.

Thanks again. I look forward to working with y'all <g>

Chat soon,
Sally
 



>________________________________
> From: Lewis John Mcgibbney <le...@gmail.com>
>To: Sally Khudairi <sk...@apache.org> 
>Cc: dev@nutch.apache.org 
>Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2012, 16:49
>Subject: Nutch 2.0 Press Announcement
> 
>Good Evening Sally,
>
>First and foremost I hope you are keeping well and that the beginning
>of the summer has been kind to you... all the good weather still to
>come not to worry :0)
>
>The reason I contact you is that we (the Apache Nutch community) are
>nearly ready to release Nutch 2.0 which represents a pretty
>significant milestone for Apache Nutch as a project. Although Nutch
>2.0 is not considered as main stream development (a decision made by
>the PMC some time ago) it still marks a real step forward for the
>project as a whole and also pays serious merit to users, developers
>and committers past and present. Due top these reasons I think it
>would be excellent for the community if we could really get the
>message out that the project is rocking in addition to the fact that
>it is an excellent, well followed, vibrant TLP within the foundation.
>
>I wonder if it would be possible for us to get a formal press
>announcement constructed based on input from ourselves in
>collaboration with your experience in this area?
>
>I am coming into the official press releases from an almost blind
>tangent so would really appreciate your guidance and input on this one
>if possible.
>
>Thanks in advance for any input you have.
>
>Best
>
>Lewis
>
>N.B Please anyone from dev@ chime in on this thread. I personally feel
>the better an announcement, the more our community grows. Thank you
>
>
>