Oh, and by the way, look at at www.laptop.org where it says: "give a laptop | get a laptop change the world
coming nov 17 at amazon.com/xo" ;-) Christoph Christoph Derndorfer schrieb: > Edward, > > there's this litte Web site called olpcnews.com and they (no, wait, > that was me;-) wrote something > (http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/g1g1/g1g1_v2_price_launchdate_unveiled.html) > > about this back on September 8 after laptopmag's Joanna Stern > originally posted the information that day > (http://blog.laptopmag.com/olpc-give-1-get-1-to-start-november-17-through-amazoncom) > > after apparently taking to Nicholas Negroponte. > > So I'd say it's hardly a secret... > > Also, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "forking the PR program", > it's not like the community isn't promoting OLPC and G1G1 by sitting > in airports and Starbucks around the world using their XOs. Making > some common information materials such as flyers and hand-outs that > you can give people who ask you "whether this is one of these laptops > that they've heard so much about" makes sense but I'm skeptical of > anything going beyond that. > > Anyway, just my 2 euro-cents, > Christoph > > Edward Cherlin schrieb: >> 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! >> > -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
