Public Relations, regular updates and news (was: Peru and Microsoft announcement)

[Ixo X oxI]

And to add 2 cents further,. . . about public announcements and reports of
current events...

. . . about 6 months ago.... a handful of us "cheerful support-gang
volunteer types"  started to put together a 'public friendly' newsletter of
the various happenings....  we got one issue out, and then no one carried
the flag forward.

  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Weekly_zine/0

A great piece of work, I must say myself... :) but 'weekly' was just too
quick between issues.

We got a bit ambitious on what we wanted to do, and there weren't quite
enough hands to keep it going. ;-/   The issue took about 2 weeks to pull
together, with help from about a dozen people.

There's been a recent influx of new 'Support Gang' members, so maybe there's
enough new blood to help carry it forward ?

*hint*  *hint*   *poke*  *grin*
-Ixo



On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 18:00, Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org> wrote:

> Hi Pia,
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Pia Waugh <greebo at pipka.org> 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
>
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