<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@tomeuvizoso.net">tomeu@tomeuvizoso.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div>On 5/2/08, Bernie Innocenti <<a href="mailto:bernie@codewiz.org">bernie@codewiz.org</a>> wrote: </div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div class="Wj3C7c"> > At this point<br>
> we need to do more communication, or the press will keep repeating<br>
> that a bunch of Linux fundamentalists are trying to sabotage<br>
> Negroponte's educational project.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>I don't think that's the general thrust of the press. Making a focused effort on negative comunication of any sort, no matter how righteous, is just fodder for a press that doesn't much care for getting details straight. <br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div class="Wj3C7c">> Without knowing how much time we have I've tentatively set objectives<br>
> as follows:<br>
><br>
> - Really short introduction of One Laptop Per Child, Sugar, and<br>
> Constructionism<br>
><br>
> - The subtle distinction between OLPC and olpc<br>
><br>
> - The OLPC mission, the 5 principles<br>
><br>
> - Summary of what Negroponte announced publicly, with a<br>
> few quoted excerpts<br>
><br>
> - Why this plan alienated employees, volunteers and grassroots<br>
> from the uppercase OLPC<br>
><br>
> - A few quotes from GregDeK, RMS, Walter Bender, etc.<br>
><br>
> - Who we are and what we are up to<br>
><br>
> - Call for help from the Python and FLOSS community<br>
><br>
> How does it sounds?<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>That sounds a bit confrontational. The FSF statement about OLPC struck me as rather good and well-tempered.<br><br>Tomeu writes:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
What about a less confrontational message in the spirit of<br>
<a href="http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-April/005292.html" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-April/005292.html</a> ?<br>
<br>
Instead of directly menacing with a fork or walk away, firmly<br>
remembering that Sugar is too big to be perverted as a laptop-selling<br>
tool may work better for the upcoming negotiations with OLPC.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>+1<br><br><br> SJ<br></div></div>