Roles and things

Charter

The media team acts as a liaison between the OSS community and members of the press, facilitating communication in both directions.

Roles/responsibilities
 * Produce a regular newsletter
 * Help disseminate LA & event information
 * Relay community feedback to the council
 * Engage with our community through social media

Contact points
 * media@linux.org.au mailing list
 * Wiki page of contacts
 * List of press contacts, with focus and interests. Not for distribution - the press team will use these as required.
 * List of community contacts, with focus and interests, for press looking for comment

Audiences
 * OSS community - provide assistance in spreading the message
 * User groups - help them publicise themselves, but also help them find out about interesting events
 * Press - generic press, IT-specific press, OSS-specific press

Specific projects
 * Maintain a subscription to all UG lists to make it easier to announce events etc to the groups.
 * archive of-media releases
 * Embedded journalists & podcasters @ confs

Message
 * open is good
 * transparency