:D Keep rocking, Nick! You're my man!
This looks awesome, keep us up to date! -Tag On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Nicholas Lawson <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought I would let you in on something that could be kind of special > happening at Media Bridges ... I shall keep you posted. > > > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: FW: Synopsis of P&G's Purpose for Nov. 8th Meeting > Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 16:30:15 -0400 > > Mr. Corbet, > > I have discussed your presence with Emily from P&G and she has sent me the > following information. I wanted to share this information with you because I > thought it may help you better understand why a researcher from Proctor and > Gamble would be at Media Bridges in the first place. I have spoken with my > supervisor and it is apparent that we at Media Bridges could be in a > position to provide our assets to the Open Source community in as much as it > would be possible to enrich the Open Source community by having real time > programming geared towards a specific demographic ... i.e. Open Source > Developers. I know that Emily finds the prospect of entering into the FOSS > community as a distinct possibility as the retail organization that she has > worked with from my understanding has fallen drastically short of solving > their problem statement. >From what I understand the below information is > the problem statement that her division is interested in solving. > > I am envisioning a situation where on a regular basis we have lead > developers on this project here at Media Bridges turning Media Bridges for a > time into a live broadcast version of an IRC Chatroom. It would make sense > to me to present a real world problem to the Open Source community here in > Cincinnati and begin to delve into the details of how to solve the problem > either live on television or with pre recorded information that would enable > for a more expedient solution to the problem that has been presented to me. > > I have never seen programming on Time Warner cable that was geared > specifically to a highly developed computer literate culture. I believe that > thousands of people would be interested to hear what high level programming > conversation sounds like when solving a high level problem. This is a place > where such conversations can take place and would in my opinion shed light > on a topic that people are interested in but lacking the resources / > keywords / memes with which to enter into the community. If you do not know > the phrase "Open Source" how then can you search for it to learn of its > existence in an engine. I believe that a number of solutions could be solved > through the utilization of Media Bridges as a conduit to all things Open > Source. If we are fully transitioning over to an Open Source Solution then I > imagine we could at the very least attempt to with our resources raise the > level of awareness of the Open Source world through community created media > whose purpose could be to bring more into the folds of the Open Source > environment. > > What would you do at the convergence point of broadcast television and the > open source community? We can provide that opportunity here at Media > Bridges? Imagine professional Open Source programmers developing media > addressing their problems concerns and aspirations as programmers for the > entirety of Cincinnati to have insight into. I have seen Ubuntu media > content on YouTube ... I would like to see it on Media Bridges programming > channels. We have four of them. > > You would be able to call Emily at the number below and if you so chose > discuss with her in person her problem and see if there is a chemistry > between yourself and herself that could be geared towards solving her > problem. That I imagine is up to you, however, it could be helpful for the > entire function if there was some preliminary discussion so that we could > bypass the niceties and direct our time to the presentation I will be > providing and the discussion that I will be facilitating in the aftermath. > > I look forward to hearing from you and hope that this email can be helpful > to you in shaping your understanding of what Media Bridges is interested in > and why Proctor and Gamble would be interested in attending a function at > our facilities. > > from boys to men, > > Nicholas Lawson > > ________________________________ > > To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 13:33:09 -0400 > Subject: Synopsis of P&G's Purpose for Nov. 8th Meeting > > Nicholas- > > > > I am excited to see your presentation on Monday and would like to thank you > (and everyone involved) for being able to move the meeting up on such short > notice. As you requested, I have written a short paragraph outlining the > problem that we have at P&G and what we perceive to be help. Please let me > know if you are looking for more/less information. > > > > Thanks > > > > · Currently, P&G uses human intervention to transfer formulation > data from a Macro-enabled Excel sheet to our corporate documentation > system. This causes delays in the launch of our initiatives due to the time > required for a person to input all the necessary information. This can also > cause issues with data being transferred correctly due to human error. We > are looking for an electronic solution that would be able to map the > information from the Excel sheet to our corporate system quickly and > accurately. > > > > Emily Fairall > > Procter & Gamble - Sr. Functional Specialist > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
