<div dir="ltr">And to add 2 cents further,. . . about public announcements and reports of current events...<br><br>. . . 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.<br>
<br> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Weekly_zine/0">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Weekly_zine/0</a><br><br>A great piece of work, I must say myself... :) but 'weekly' was just too quick between issues.<br>
<br>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.<br><br>There's been a recent influx of new 'Support Gang' members, so maybe there's enough new blood to help carry it forward ?<br>
<br>*hint* *hint* *poke* *grin*<br>-Ixo<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 18:00, Samuel Klein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sj@laptop.org">sj@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Pia,<br>
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Pia Waugh <<a href="mailto:greebo@pipka.org">greebo@pipka.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> <quote who="Edward Cherlin"><br>
>> This would be even more useful as the basis for an article or<br>
>> editorial in one or more of the computer magazines or Web sites, or a<br>
>> fact-filled press release. All of the media people I have talked with<br>
>> say they would like to hear from OLPC.<br>
>><br>
>> We don't have to frame it as us vs. them. We can just announce the<br>
>> state of current deployments, and discuss plans for future deployments<br>
>> and G1G1, including whatever can be said in public about the Microsoft<br>
>> trials. Everybody wants to know what's up with the Amazon deal, too.<br>
<br>
</div>We could have a formulaic "please check out our latest public<br>
announcements" email, and a list that media orgs can sign up to to<br>
receive regular pointers to longer announcements. Something between<br>
the sporadic Press Release and the detailed weekly community-news<br>
blurbs.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
<br>
> I believe there is an internal newsletter, why doesn't OLPC have a monthly<br>
> public news feed that is on the main website that talks about stuff<br>
> happening which would give the world (and community trying to support OLPC)<br>
> the information we all need :) The amount of times I've had people both from<br>
> the FOSS community and the general community ask me what is going on is<br>
> crazy, and damaging. And I'm not even on the inside, I'm just involved with<br>
> some regional projects!<br>
<br>
</div>As mentioned elsewhere, we have a community-news list<br>
(<a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/community-news" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/community-news</a>), but it only goes<br>
out to some 2000 people. It might be valuable to have a list for<br>
shorter, more specific announcements that includes a regular link to<br>
the community-news archive, and any major essays or press pieces,<br>
which we can broadcast to a much larger audience.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> If it is any help, Im sure there are many people in the community who would<br>
> be happy to help (including me) with something like this, with keeping the<br>
> general public and community informed in a more public fashion. There is<br>
> generally a lot of good will towards the project around the world but real<br>
> and positive public information is key to maintaining that good will.<br>
<br>
</div>This is a good point. For instance, it would be useful to post and<br>
wikify the community-news archives on the wiki (this would both give<br>
them much higher google rank and help highlight red-links for a number<br>
of efforts, deployments, or concepts that deserve public descriptions<br>
but don't have their own page yet on our wiki).<br>
<br>
SJ<br>
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