Marketing/GeneralReleaseMeeting

General Release Meeting
This page is dedicated to the organization of meetings that should take place before a major release. The aim of this meeting is to make sure that nothing is left in the corner and to allow all projects to have a better communication flow.

Where
The dedicated marketing channel on irc will be used for these meetings.
 * Check your IRC access, general information concerning this technology you can get here:
 * If you've never used IRC chat, please follow this information for help; also these instructionts might ease your approach.
 * Join the #libreoffice-mkt channel on the freenode server.
 * Join the #libreoffice-mkt channel on the freenode server.

When
January 14 2015 15:00 UTC - the meeting will last 1 hour.


 * Easy-to-use link for various timezone offsets:

Agenda of the meeting

 * Marketing
 * IDEAL DATE OF RELEASE: January 28
 * Prepare the general messaging for this release
 * Prepare the press release and the infographics
 * first draft on January 16
 * Prepare a short and a long video, based on a slide deck, to be also used at FOSDEM
 * First version on January 23
 * Collect press release translation in Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brasil + Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
 * Set up media pre-briefings the week before the announcement for January 26/27, with embargo on January 28
 * Pick the 5 top functions
 * Check what's needed for release notes page
 * QA
 * Check the different tasks (site, security bulletin, BZ, etc)
 * Readme update
 * MAB
 * MAB