[math4] Was Press - Events. Now an Idea

[Karsten Wade]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:59:12AM -0400, Karlie Robinson wrote:
> The better you get to know me, the less you'll question how my brain 
> works... Now on with the show....
> 
> First - Reading yesterday's news I spot this article - 
> http://www.rbj.net/fullarticle.cfm?sdid=77550 "Strong Museum unveils 
> center for electronic games"
> 
> Second - While Strong is the "National Museum of Play," they are 
> primarily an American History Museum and the largest Children's Museum 
> in the US. 
> 
> Third - The XO was conceived by an American (Negroponte) and it's 
> primary function is a tool for children.
> 
> the idea - what if we donate an XO to Strong at the April Rochester OLPC 
> SIG meeting on behalf of all of us?  This gives us a stronger news hook 
> than our standard geekery. 
> 
> Points would be -
> The collection at Strong isn't complete without an XO
> The work being done in Rochester for the OLPC effort as a whole
> The ties between OLPC, SugarLabs, Fedora, RIT and the world wide 
> community and how the last two points define Rochester as an epicenter 
> for Math4 with ripples being felt world wide
> 
> Thoughts?

No brain confusion for me, makes good sense.  I'm Cc:'ing Paul
W. Frields on this one, he has a lot of experience now working with
Red Hat's press people; perhaps they can act as a leg to get the press
attention, too.

- Karsten
-- 
Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
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