[Gambas-user] Gambas 1.0 press release?

[Rob]

So, with Slashdot not picking up the Gambas 1.0 release story 
even though they accepted the announcement of the RC series, I 
am wondering if we (the project) should put out a press release.  
I see two ways we can go: prweb, which is free and is really 
aimed at small organizations like ours, or prnewswire (or an 
equivalent service) which would probably cost us about US$1,000 
but we could have a drive to raise that kind of money (and I'd 
be willing to put up about a quarter of that.)

I think prnewswire's search engine and newspaper coverage is far 
greater than prweb's, but prweb would at least get us into 
google news if anyone was searching for linux basic or anything 
like that.  It may be that the traffic we got from a prnewswire 
type of release would be more than we could handle at this stage 
of our existence, anyway.  Maybe a paid press release would be 
more of a goal for 2.0 than 1.0.

Anyone else have any thoughts?

Rob