• Cons040408En

Overview of this Wiki

• Links to related pages
• Help blast out this PR
  • Roles
  • Keeping in Touch
  • Template for future press releases
  • Translation Problems
    • Problems in specific language versions
  • Multipliers to send the PR to
    • Doping Prices
  • Shorter Texts derived from this PR for special purposes
  • Wednesday's press conference

Links to related pages

• Cons040408WikifiedEn - wikified version of the press release

• Cons040408FrainEn - attempt of a stripped down version of the press release

• for translated versions, see the translation section

Help Blast out this PR

It has the highest potential impact of all PRs since last summer.

When sending to journalists, please also invite them to the Press Conference, for which moreover some specific work remains to be done.

Roles

• Erik (erjos, ehj) is helping to instruct helpers on irc://irc.debian.org#bxl-ffii (freenode).

• Hartmut and Holger can not help due to Brussels Conference.

• arebenti at ffii org has to submit his diploma thesis in a few days but will do some things, including cutting out chunks of this PR and rewriting german versions for specific german news channels, see Cons040408FrainDe.

• Alex Stohr has contacted some news channels, see below
• James (jheald) has alterted some interested journalists particularly in the UK
• Dieter will handle Flemish PR (and possibly Dutch as well), has produced a simplified dutch version.
• Alexander Stohr will create a template of this page for use in later PRs at WikiPRTemplateEn

Keeping in Touch

Use media-parl at ffii org and irc://irc.debian.org/#bxl-ffii together with this wiki page to aid coordination.

Template for future press releases

alexander stohr at gmx de has generalised this wiki page to a form that makes it easier to recycle in the future.

Find the template of this page for use in similar pages at WikiPRTemplateEn.

phm: please never create any kwiki pages that do not end in a language suffix, move to WikiPRTemplateEn! (original place was: WikiPRTemplate)

Translate

Translate the editable source text and send it to to mlhtimport at a2e de, see translating instructions.

Note that the original changed on 2004-04-09 at around 16:00 in some places.

Hints to Translators

• check EU institution/law terminology such as "directive", "presidency", "council", "amendment"
• phrases like "no software patents -- power to the Parliament" were chosen under shortness constraints which vary from language to language, different ways of shortening a base meaning similar to "all lawmaking power to elected legislators" may have to be found in some languages.
• names like "Call for Action" should be translated, but the original title should show up the first time it occurs in the body.
• since several people may be translating at the same time, you should usually fetch the latest txl file from the net before translating, and send only those text chunks which you really modified, leaving the others behind hash marks (treated as comments, not inserted into the database)

Status of various Language Versions

see also that version's own addenda wiki

Finnish

• Tapani has finished a Finnish version. see Cons040408Fi

German

• alexander stohr at gmx de and dh at cantamen de say they have translated to german, a lot of problems are left, see also discussion on Cons040408De

Dutch

• Discussion also in Dutch at Cons040408Nl

• Reinout van Schouwen (reinout at cs DOT vu.nl) is working on it
• Dieter Van Uytvanck as well (begin- #qjd)
• Pieter Pax09 as well, beginning on part #Wew

Portoguese

• Rui Miguel Seabra published it on http://swpat.ffii.org/news/04/cons0408/index.pt.html, still needs some revision, mostly for spelling mistakes due to fast typing.

• Discussion in Portugues at Cons040408Pt

Spanish

• Erik Josefsson got a spanish version trough IRC and now asked for a spanish translator trough traduk ML, supposed he wants to verify the text. see Cons040408Es. We need the address and uid of this spanish translator. Translation is quite imperfect, needs proofreading by Jesus or Xavier.

Other languages are going silently online, please see web page.

List of multipliers to whom people should write

Please add to this list and put your name after any address to which you have already written

English

• info at theregister.co.uk: sent by e-mail (Alexander Stohr)
• the Register: named contact (jheald)
• press.releases at theinquirer.net: sent by e-mail (Alexander Stohr), reception confirmed by "Mike Magee"
• mailroomuk at zdnet.co.uk: sent by e-mail (Alexander Stohr)
• IDG (idgnews at idg.com): sent by e-mail (Alexander Stohr)
• info at euractiv.com: sent something to a euractiv address (james)
• skynet: named contact (jheald)
• Outlaw: named contact (jheald)
• zdnet: named contact (jheald)
• LWN.net: named contact (jheald)

• slashdot.org: submitted short story & Link via web interface (Alexander Stohr), an earlier story by Bram is quite high up there already, update may have to wait.

Mailing lists at ffii.org and other ffii sites:

• news (phm)
• ffii-uk (jheald)
• ffii-ie (jheald)

Mailing lists on other servers:

• fsfe-uk (jheald)
• sklyarov (jheald)
• lugmaster (jheald)

German

• See also discussion in German on Cons040408De

• info at heise.de: contacted, somewhat outdated newsticker article on Friday 09.04.2004 11:14; seltsame Ueberschrift "Grosskampftage" (laut Forumsteilnehmer Naziterminologie) - macht es noetig andere Newsticker davon abzuhalten diese Terminologie zu uebernehmen

• info at spiegel-online.de:
• golem.de: contacted by lars_at_public_noschinski_de
• ORF Radio - Wirtschaftsredaktion: via personal contact by jensens_at_gmx_de
• Mailing lists at ffii.org and other ffii sites:

  • neues: TODO (german text not good enough yet, see criticism on Cons040408De) --- Dienstag, 13. April 2004 10:38, sent out by Hartmut Pilch

• Mailing lists on other servers:

Swedish

• Agency T.T. seems to be working during the holidays

Dutch

• todo, also at Cons040408Nl

Finnish

• todo, also at Cons040408Fi

Spanish

• todo, also at Cons040408Es

Misc

• Reuters, DPA, AFP, BBC, ...
• Europa-digital

many press agencies are listed at pressalliance.com.

Doping prices

Some agencies or individuals offer special services for blasting PRs to news agencies. We might spend about 500 eur for such services if they are worthwhile. Try to obtain offers and list them here: MediaDopingEn.

Shorter Texts derived from this PR

• Cons040408FrainDe (special press text on Nokia letter by arebenti)

• a text by dietvu in dutch

Wednesday's Press Conference

see plone page and Bxl44PressEn