Tangential thoughts here: When it comes to press outreach, we definitely do not want to (a) limit ourselves to "print" (or web-print...) news outlets. Podcasts, videocasts (e.g., Meet the GIMP) and the like are just as important and have strangely divergent audiences. ... or to (b) limit ourselves only to "FLOSS" press. I recommend spreading the word to blogs, newsy sites, and discussion forums that cater to graphic design as a subject. In particular to invite artists -- assuming we will have things for them to do, workshopwise or meet-with-developerswise -- but also to help find the basement-hacker-doing-something-really-wild who is not plugged in to a formal project. On a related note, it is best to separate out our news releases to have specific purposes. At this stage, we should still be highlighting the CFP, because we want to get the word out to potential speakers and participants. That might not mean as many of the web discussion forums -- which tend to revolve around user discussions -- but it could. Certainly the recent deviantArt presentation, for example, was excellent and eye-opening. When the proposals have started coming in (in droves!), then we should make a harder effort to get the word out to potential attendees and perhaps Pledgie/donation fans from the public. I can also think of some specific potential presenters it would be worth reaching out to that are not likely to pick up the CFP invitation by osmosis.... - EditShare: they're still talking about open source; it has been a long time coming, but it might do worlds of good to reach out to them in a friendly way and invite them to LGM, rather than just ask where the source code is - Robofab: I genuinely did not know this was an open source project until one week ago; they periodically cross paths with the open source community on the type forums, but inviting them would potentially start a much better conversation - Belén Barros & Michael Wood: they were at GUADEC, and have built a free software "portable usability testing lab" that I think a lot of projects would find value in, even though it is not graphics-related itself. I'm sure there are more, but I skipped lunch today so I don't remember any others.... Thanks, Nate -- nathan.p.willis <a href="mailto:nwillis@glyphography.com">nwillis@glyphography.com</a> aim/ym/gtalk:n8willis <a href="http://identi.ca/n8">identi.ca/n8</a>