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 _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
