And to add 2 cents further,. . . about public announcements and reports of current events...
. . . about 6 months ago.... a handful of us "cheerful support-gang volunteer types" started to put together a 'public friendly' newsletter of the various happenings.... we got one issue out, and then no one carried the flag forward. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Weekly_zine/0 A great piece of work, I must say myself... :) but 'weekly' was just too quick between issues. We got a bit ambitious on what we wanted to do, and there weren't quite enough hands to keep it going. ;-/ The issue took about 2 weeks to pull together, with help from about a dozen people. There's been a recent influx of new 'Support Gang' members, so maybe there's enough new blood to help carry it forward ? *hint* *hint* *poke* *grin* -Ixo On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 18:00, Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Pia, > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Pia Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > <quote who="Edward Cherlin"> > >> This would be even more useful as the basis for an article or > >> editorial in one or more of the computer magazines or Web sites, or a > >> fact-filled press release. All of the media people I have talked with > >> say they would like to hear from OLPC. > >> > >> We don't have to frame it as us vs. them. We can just announce the > >> state of current deployments, and discuss plans for future deployments > >> and G1G1, including whatever can be said in public about the Microsoft > >> trials. Everybody wants to know what's up with the Amazon deal, too. > > We could have a formulaic "please check out our latest public > announcements" email, and a list that media orgs can sign up to to > receive regular pointers to longer announcements. Something between > the sporadic Press Release and the detailed weekly community-news > blurbs. > > > > I believe there is an internal newsletter, why doesn't OLPC have a > monthly > > public news feed that is on the main website that talks about stuff > > happening which would give the world (and community trying to support > OLPC) > > the information we all need :) The amount of times I've had people both > from > > the FOSS community and the general community ask me what is going on is > > crazy, and damaging. And I'm not even on the inside, I'm just involved > with > > some regional projects! > > As mentioned elsewhere, we have a community-news list > (http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/community-news), but it only goes > out to some 2000 people. It might be valuable to have a list for > shorter, more specific announcements that includes a regular link to > the community-news archive, and any major essays or press pieces, > which we can broadcast to a much larger audience. > > > If it is any help, Im sure there are many people in the community who > would > > be happy to help (including me) with something like this, with keeping > the > > general public and community informed in a more public fashion. There is > > generally a lot of good will towards the project around the world but > real > > and positive public information is key to maintaining that good will. > > This is a good point. For instance, it would be useful to post and > wikify the community-news archives on the wiki (this would both give > them much higher google rank and help highlight red-links for a number > of efforts, deployments, or concepts that deserve public descriptions > but don't have their own page yet on our wiki). > > SJ >
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