Re: [IAEP] G1G1 (was Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-09-29))
Am 06.10.2008 um 06:28 schrieb Nirav Patel: Ah, thanks. Does anyone know the name of the font used in OLPC marketing materials, such as the text on amazon.com/xo ? I'm pretty certain it's these: laptop.org: VAG Rundschrift (a.k.a. VAG Rounded) amazon.com: Arial Rounded (similar but not quite as pure) (fellow typophiles might want to read the VAG Rounded wikipedia entry) - Bert - ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] G1G1 (was Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-09-29))
Yes, I'd say VAG Rounded Light and Arial Rounded MT Bold Some differences between these similar faces: * lowercase a is looped in VAG Rounded, open in Arial Rounded * lowercase t has bottom curl in VAG Rounded * C and c are more tightly curled in Arial Rounded * lowercase r has a more horizontal curl in Arial Rounded * Numerals are more curvy in Arial Rounded, the 1 and 7 considerably more so On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 06.10.2008 um 06:28 schrieb Nirav Patel: Ah, thanks. Does anyone know the name of the font used in OLPC marketing materials, such as the text on amazon.com/xo ? I'm pretty certain it's these: laptop.org: VAG Rundschrift (a.k.a. VAG Rounded) amazon.com: Arial Rounded (similar but not quite as pure) (fellow typophiles might want to read the VAG Rounded wikipedia entry) - Bert - ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] G1G1 (was Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-09-29))
Update: Some of the computer press has picked up the story. But we could be all over the Mainstream Media, including having Nicholas, Walter, Alan and others on all the talk shows. If they are willing. Are any of you? This is the one time of year when ordering something you can't get is a positive. We should aim for something ridiculous, like a million units. (Although we shouldn't say that to the media in so many words.) And then we should provide daily tracking of order numbers and of production lead times, to encourage yet more people to order as early as possible. We should be playing up the connection with the 40th anniversary of the Dynabook idea, and of Doug Engelbart's Mother of All Demos. I have been in contact with him and his people, and I know that they are keen on that. We should be doing T-shirts, mugs, stickers, replica mice, and all the rest of the merchandising, and getting several books published. Why anybody at OLPC would want to waste the best marketing time in the year is utterly beyond me. If you don't think my opinion counts, ask Amazon. On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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! -- Don't panic.--HHGTTG, Douglas Adams fivethirtyeight.com, 3bluedudes.com Obama still moving ahead in EC! http://www.obamapedia.org/ Join us! http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai For the children -- Don't panic.--HHGTTG, Douglas Adams fivethirtyeight.com, 3bluedudes.com Obama still moving ahead in EC! http://www.obamapedia.org/ Join us! http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai For the children ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] G1G1 (was Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-09-29))
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! -- Don't panic.--HHGTTG, Douglas Adams fivethirtyeight.com, 3bluedudes.com Obama still moving ahead in EC! http://www.obamapedia.org/ Join us! http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai For the children ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] G1G1 (was Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-09-29))
FWIW, I saw a billboard in the Indianapolis airport this weekend advertising last year's G1G1 program!! -walter ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
