Difference between revisions of "Where to Release Software"

These are general sites, lists and emails to send release announcements and press out to.

Places to Announce

In general, for linux community receives a general informal announcement. However, for formal press channels we use the more formal 3rd-person press release.

Open Source Community (Receive Informal PR)

• lwn@lwn.net
• newstips@heise.de
• PR: theobroma@revelinux.com
• http://www.newsforge.com/submit.pl
• http://slashdot.org/submit.pl
• http://www.desktoplinux.com/ - http://www.desktoplinux.com/cgi-bin/news_post.cgi
• Freshmeat
• gnome footnotes
• GnomeFiles for software which supports Gnome

Social Sites

• http://digg.com/
• http://del.icio.us/
• http://technorati.com/wtf
• BLOG IT!!!!

Formal PR Contacts

• prleap - another free pr service
• prbuzz - another free pr service
• SBWire offers free press release services to open source projects with the SBWire for Non-Profits program
• nettime-ann - http://www.nettime.org/
• See Kansas City infoZine: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/5080/
• arts sites? <-- continue looking these up!!!
• news site
• need more magazines
• need more press outlets

Magazines (Get formal PR)

• I've requested where to send PR and how to get our software reviewed from these magazines.

• http://linuxformat.co.uk/ - webmaster@linuxformat.co.uk
  • PR: login and submit news via top of page link
• http://linux-magazine.com/ - info@linux-magazine.com edit@linux-magazine.com
  • PR: pr@linux-magazine.com
  • Product Reviews: coming soon
• http://linuxjournal.com/ - ljeditor@ssc.com
  • PR: newproducts@ssc.com
  • Product Reviews: Heather Mead, heather@ssc.com, http://www.linuxjournal.com/xstatic/advertising/prodreviews
• http://linuxmagazine.com/ - editors@linux-mag.com
  • PR: ???
  • Product Reviews:
• http://linuxuser.co.uk - http://linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=40
  • PR: terry@linuxuser.co.uk
  • Product Reviews: martin@linuxuser.co.uk
• http://www.tuxmagazine.com/ - editor@tuxmagazine.com
  • PR: ???
  • Product Reviews: http://www.tuxmagazine.com/xstatic/advertising/prodreviews
• http://www.linuxworld.com/ - mrhinkle@linuxworld.com tim@linuxworld.com

Other Updates

• ...wikipedia yet?