On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Simon Schampijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Martin Langhoff wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> The other sad thing is that the spreading of FUD and misinformation is >>>> already rampant. This is just a pilot. But we need to rally around >>>> FOSS and Sugar and make sure that the signal emerges from the noise. >>> >>> Yes. 55K Sugar/GNU/Linux machines are being shipped every month to >>> kids. A tiny pilot is run with Windowsas the OS and... "OMG! End of >>> teh World!" cry the sensationalist journos. >>> > > Just remember that Journos are paid by the number of people who read > their stuff. My day job has me involved in the ATLAS experiment on the > LHC. All the sensationalist stuff about the LHC destroying the > Universe has probably substantially increased our profile although it > was really annoying to see obvious bad Science disseminated to people. > I think "we", that is sugar-labs, can use this to our advantage by > writing counter-point articles about the ground breaking UI we already > have as well as the 55 K/month shipments to children. > > So the point is that there is a strong counter-story about sugar-labs > and the current shipments. We need to make sure that story gets out > too. > > Cheers > > Martin > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
Just posted this: http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/562 Should show up on the planet feed shortly. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
