On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 09:51 +0100, Elisa Godoy de Castro Guerra wrote:
Hi,
i was waiting for the meeting to discuss a point. I can translate into french. But reading the document i notice a problem.
Second me, all these documents are really code oriented. Who are the target of Inkscape : the artist ? Then i think we should creat some text, document marketing or example showing new feature, or pointing very good feature in Inkscape. Actually the first sentences are all oriented to the code, who is not attractiv for designer people.
Brynn, Thanks for taking the initiative on this.
I agree with Elisa that the press release must be targeted towards end-users. We developers already know the details.
I would re-order the paragraphs:
1. An introduction to Inkscape without the history.
"The Inkscape community is happy to announce the release of Inkscape 0.91. Inkscape is ...
See http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015#The_Pitch
2. New/Improved tools. Why are these important? What can the user do with the Measurement tool? What is the purpose of the Symbols dialog? It could be interesting to point out that it can read Visio symbol libraries. What is the purpose of the the Trace Pixel Art feature?
3. Newly supported file formats.
4. New extensions: highlight a few.
5. Performance improvements: Give numbers: rendering speed, memory use. You can briefly mention the Cairo library but most end-users won't know anything about Cairo and they won't care when and who did the work.
I would leave off filters. While new filters are always great, they probably are not of the same importance as the above.
The paragraph mentioning our 4 year gap can probably be excluded entirely. Let's not point out our failure to get the release done earlier.
Tav