See www.laptop.org.... - Jim
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 16:50 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > This is the first time I have heard that G1G1 will start up again on > Nov 17. As far as I can tell, nobody in the outside world has picked > up on this yet. > > Is this a leak? Is it true? Has there been any outside announcement? > Since it doesn't show up in Internet news searches, I am certain that > there was no press release. Should I Slashdot this? > > This is a Hell of a way to run a global non-profit. We have one of the > world's biggest brands, and we do nothing with it. We could be The > Must-Have Gift for this Holiday season without any advertising > expense, if we would just let the media have the story. Even with the > manufacturing delays that we can predict. That's one of the draws for > the Must-Have Gift of the year. Cabbage Patch died the moment you > could get one off the shelf. > > There is a great deal more I could say about this and other management > issues, but this is not the place for it. If you want to hear any of > it, you know where to find me. > > But!! I have a better idea. Who wants to fork the PR program, and help > write an Open Source press release? We'll have to reverse engineer > most of the content, but I have confidence in our community's > abilities. > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Community News > > A weekly update of One Laptop per Child September 29, 2008 > > > Our appearance outside the Marriott attracted a lot of people to out > > tables; some of them were as far as from Finland; many of them knew > > about "those laptops for children" and were asking about the ways to > > acquire the laptops (we even got questions: are you selling the > > machines?). So, in addition to conducting our scheduled testing, we also > > served as "unofficial" OLPC marketing representatives, steering people > > > to the Nov 17 opening of the G1G1 event through amazon.com. The time we > > > were outside wasn't even the peak lunch time for people to fill that > > square; just imagine the level of attention, if we were there at the > > lunch time! > -- Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep