On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:59:12AM -0400, Karlie Robinson wrote: > The better you get to know me, the less you'll question how my brain > works... Now on with the show.... > > First - Reading yesterday's news I spot this article - > http://www.rbj.net/fullarticle.cfm?sdid=77550 "Strong Museum unveils > center for electronic games" > > Second - While Strong is the "National Museum of Play," they are > primarily an American History Museum and the largest Children's Museum > in the US. > > Third - The XO was conceived by an American (Negroponte) and it's > primary function is a tool for children. > > the idea - what if we donate an XO to Strong at the April Rochester OLPC > SIG meeting on behalf of all of us? This gives us a stronger news hook > than our standard geekery. > > Points would be - > The collection at Strong isn't complete without an XO > The work being done in Rochester for the OLPC effort as a whole > The ties between OLPC, SugarLabs, Fedora, RIT and the world wide > community and how the last two points define Rochester as an epicenter > for Math4 with ripples being felt world wide > > Thoughts?
No brain confusion for me, makes good sense. I'm Cc:'ing Paul W. Frields on this one, he has a lot of experience now working with Red Hat's press people; perhaps they can act as a leg to get the press attention, too. - Karsten -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41
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