Archive:Marketing F11 schedule

This page is based on the Marketing schedule template which should be copied over at every new release. This schedule depends on Fedora General release schedule. We are now in the Fedora 11 cycle.

Tasks not tied to the release cycle

A list of general tasks which are not directly related to a Fedora release cycle can be found on Marketing tasks.

The 6 weeks leading up to Alpha (2008-12-15 - 2009-02-05)

Task Name	Owner	Target Date	Status/Notes
Update the Talking Points	Jack	2009-01-30	Complete
Renew the news distribution network people list to always have motivated people	moixs	2009-03-03	Complete
Cleanup the wiki from the obsolete marketing cycles	moixs	2009-02-28	Complete
Cycle the wiki pages to the new release	moixs	2009-02-28	Complete

Between Alpha and Beta (2009-02-06 - 2009-03-31)

Task Name	Owner	Target Date	Status/Notes
List the features that we want to focus on	MaxSpevack	2009-03-10	Complete
Contact beats people about topics/features we cover	Jack	2009-03-10	Complete
Update the talking points	Jack	2009-03-10	Complete
(PBOOK) Clean up submissions page	MaxSpevack	2009-03-13	Complete
(PBOOK) Open for submissions w/ banner in rotation	Ian Weller	2009-03-17	Complete
Beta Readiness Meeting with other teams @ 1PM EDT	Jack	2009-03-18	Complete
(Wiki) Own, clean, revitalize UserTestimonials	Jack	2009-03-31	In progress
Write and send a beta release news to the NDN	moixs	2009-03-31	Complete
Begin working on release slogan	Jack	2009-04-28	Complete

Between Beta and Preview Release (2009-04-01 - 2009-04-28)

Task Name	Owner	Target Date	Status/Notes
Completion of the in-depth feature profiles	Jack + various	2009-04-07	In progress
Brief FAMSCo on talking points and propagate link to Ambassadors	Max	2009-04-07	Complete
Collect feature work and forward it to fedora press	Henrik Heigl	2009-04-28	In progress
Update the press kits on the Fedora press material page	moixs and Jack	2009-04-28	In progress (done in french)

Between Preview Release and Final (2009-04-29 - 2009-05-25)

Task Name	Owner	Target Date	Status/Notes
Update the screenshots page	moixs	2009-05-05	Almost done
Update the Fedora tour page	Jack	2009-05-12	A note
Advertise in-depth features to press sites	2000-05-05	Jack	In progress

Final release and subsequent 4 weeks (2009-05-26 - 2009-06-23)

Task Name	Owner	Target Date	Status/Notes
Monitor community news sites and provide corrections and additional information as needed	Owner	YYYY-MM-DD	A note
Additional outreach to independent journos and podcasters	Owner	YYYY-MM-DD	A note
Update the Marketing statistics poster 4 weeks after the release	moixs	2009-06-06	A note