Press Release Templates

Introduction

This page contains a few templates to be used by the Advertising team, a sub-team of the PR team, when putting together press releases. The text of the actual release will be tailored to the specific requirements of each press release.

Alpha/Beta Release

Subject: PCGen X.XX.X (<Alpha/Beta>) Released!

PCGen is pleased to announce the release of PCGen X.XX.X (<Alpha/Beta>).

<Comment on significant achievements for this release, including new data-sets and features added.>

For the full detail on all changes made in this release, check out the release notes here:

<link to release note>

As you can see, the work for <X.XX, the next stable release.> is progressing well! So for the brave and the bold, please do try out this <alpha/beta> and give us your feedback.

PCGen is a RPG character generator and maintenance program (d20 systems). All datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users for their own campaigns. Please join us http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/ or visit our site http://pcgen.org.

Public Relations Team PCGen Project

Production Release

Subject: PCGen X.XX Released!

PCGen is pleased to announce the release of the X.XX.X Production Release of PCGen.

<Comment on significant achievements for this release, including new data-sets and features added.>

For the full detail on all changes made in this release, check out the release notes here:

<link to release note>

PCGen is a RPG character generator and maintenance program (d20 systems). All datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users for their own campaigns. Please join us at <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/">PCGen@Yahoo!</a> or visit our website <a href="http://pcgen.org">here</a>.

Public Relations Team PCGen Project

Data Set Release

Subject: PCGen Releases <product name> Data Sets!

PCGen is pleased to announce the release of data sets for <publisher> <product line/title>!

<list data sets included in the release>

These data sets are compatible with the latest stable version of PCGen, <bersion #>, and are available for immediate download from PCGen's download page here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25576

For more information about this release, check out the release notes here:

<url for the release notes>

PCGen is an Open-Source RPG character generator and maintenance program (d20 systems). All datafiles are ASCII text files so they can be modified by users for their own campaigns. For more information about PCGen, join us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/ or visit our website at http://pcgen.org and wiki at http://wiki.pcgen.org/.

PCGen Team

Example

Subect: PCGen Releases 8 New Pathfinder Data Sets!

PCGen is pleased to announce the release of data sets for Paizo Publishing's Rise of the Runelords and Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Paths!

Data Sets in this release include Rise of the Runelords chapters 2 through 6, "The Skinsaw Murders", "The Hook Mountain Massacre", "Fortress of the Stone Giants", "Sins of the Saviors", and "Spires of Xin-Shalast", and Curse of the Crimson Throne Players Guide and chapters 1 and 2, "Edge of Anarchy" and "Seven Days to the Grave".

These data sets are compatible with the latest stable version of PCGen, v5.14.1, and are available for immediate download from PCGen's download page here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25576

You will find the release notes here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=25576&release_id=618495

PCGen is an Open-Source RPG character generator and maintenance program (d20 systems). All datafiles are ASCII text files so they can be modified by users for their own campaigns. For more information about PCGen, join us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/ or visit our website at http://pcgen.sourceforge.net and wiki at http://wiki.pcgen.org.

PCGen Team

Gen Con booth letter

[1] We just received an email from the GenCon staff about booking for next year and I thought now is a good time to start talking about next year. A 50% deposit is due by Jan 23rd, 2013

This year (2012) things just weren't able to work out for us to have a booth, neither scheduling nor financially

The costs involved are as follows Booth: $1400USD Electric: $50USD Flyers: $150+USD

These are the minimum that I as PR guy think would be beneficial. Other costs could be added, like the following.

Free CD's with PCGen ($700USD+) this cost "could" be split with other projects we could put on the CD. Additional t-shirts?

I "can" run the booth the entire time myself, but after Friday it isn't as fun. Two years ago Todd & Doug were able to help me out which greatly helped. Hopefully they'd be able to help out again. :)

So we'd need $1600USD as a minimum. There are additional things that we could do that I think would be beneficial.

I would REALLY like to be able to have an actual code monkey attend because every year there's some people that stop by with code questions or interested in the project because of the three colleges in Indy with good computer science courses.

Another thing that I would like to see is to have a "PCGen & how do I use it" seminar. For that we'd need at least a couple more experienced LST monkeys and preferably a Code monkey to help. In this I'd like to be able to give a quick over view of the prog, it's file structure, and the very basics of starting their homebrew sets.

We currently have a couple of hundred in the PCGen fund from last year, some of which goes towards the web hosting. The BoD has also tossed around using Kickstarter or IndieGogo to use as a way to keep all the funding transparent as possible. But other than some t-shirts (which we had made a few years back) I'm not sure what else we could offer as rewards since PCGen is free (and will always be).

So what are everyone's thoughts on next year?

Paul Grosse PR Silverback