Peru and Microsoft announcement

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:27 AM, Pia Waugh <greebo at pipka.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> <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.
>
> I just want to support what Edward is saying and say that OLPC could avoid a
> lot of misinformation and drama by pre-emptively releasing news about what
> is going on, which means OLPC wouldn't constantly be on the back foot of
> having to respond to misinformation.
>
> 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!
>

There's a community newsletter brought out weekly:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/community-news/
Ideally http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Current_events should be kept in
sync with it. The news section of the main laptop.org website also
points to this wki page.
Thanks,
Sayamindu



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