Project:Public Relations

The Public Relations project Article description::improves Gentoo's visibility toward the rest of the world. We maintain a presence for Gentoo on various social web silos such as Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and various chat services. In the members list can be found persons responsible on a per-site basis.

Extending and improving a meta-distribution such as Gentoo is not possible without the continued involvement of our community. Apart from the bug reporting, enhancement requests, mailing list/IRC activity, and other important aspects of development, the motivation of the users is one of, perhaps even the most, influential facet of distribution development. Such motivation can be brought to the users by well-coordinated public relation efforts.

Public relations goes well beyond just "informing the world". It embraces research, planning, communication, and evaluation manufactured to the organization's core values. It does not stop with explaining the virtues of the organization and the decisions made, but also extends to uncovering the principles that are used to go where the organization wants to go.

Road map
Want to know what do be doing? Here is a list of things the whole team can work on.

2021

 * Create Gentoo (color) themed side template(s) for use in tech talk presentations. This will help our community focus more on the content of the presentation, but also will help get the Gentoo identity (logo, colors, etc.) into the minds of the audience.
 * Templates should be at least CC-BY-SA 4.0 (or equivalent) licensed for community reuse.

Social networking and chat silos
The following is a list of official social media accounts for Gentoo. Those involved with PR can feel free to ask for permission to help push news updates to these locations. Please give other members of the team a brief consultation in and/or on the mailing list before posting.

Social networking silos

 * Facebook -
 * Twitter -, ,
 * Mastodon -
 * Reddit -

Chat silos

 * Telegram
 * Telegram announce channel
 * Telegram chat channel (linked to above Gentoo announce channel)
 * Telegram support channel
 * Zulip
 * Zulip (open source) (Admin: )
 * gentoo@conference.riseup.net xmpp discussion channel (open source) (Admin: )

Policy
The goal of having a policy for PR is to provide uniformity across social sites so that community members can immediately recognize Gentoo's (official) presence.


 * 1) The public relations team should follow the Gentoo name and logo usage guidelines and also take into consideration the social contract.
 * 2) For any social site to be officially run by the PR project, a minimum of two active Gentoo developers should have top-most administrative access. This is a necessary redundancy in the event that a single Gentoo developer goes missing in action.
 * 3) Active is defined as not retired and not unavailable. In the eyes of the PR team, unavailable developers are those with  files on Woodpecker for longer than 2 weeks time.
 * 4) Top-level is defined differently by each site. The priory here is to provide full permissions to manage all areas of the site to a minimum of two active developers. Note that two is the minimum, ideaily all active members of the PR team can have equal access.
 * 5) When applicable, please use Gentoo's official 'Signet' logo as the 'profile' picture.

Presentations
The presentation project (once a solo-project) has now been merged with Public Relations. Presentations help keep our community informed about Gentoo development progress. The goal is to improve Gentoo's visibility by providing all appropriate information in up-to-date, well targeted presentations, and hand outs. These can then be downloaded and used by developers, users, and other interested parties. Developers are encouraged to not only view these themselves, but also to share with others in the public square through presentations, demonstrations, and direct contact with the community.

Presentation resources can be found in the following sub-articles:


 * Presentation guide
 * Available presentations

Additional materials
Some of the following links may be deprecated or non-applicable:


 * Road maps
 * Media
 * Press coverage
 * Event material