[Marketing] Ars Technica article on 250, 000 XO-1s for India: old Sugar home view in photo :-(

[Sean DALY]

Hmmm a good point insofar as we are not in the gadget business...
what's interesting is that about 98% of the OLPC deployment classroom
photos I see show happy kids and the *back* of the XOs, almost never
the Sugar screens.

It would be great to have a shot over kids' shoulders doing an
Activity together...

Sean



On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> What we should strive for is some shots that give a sense of the
> learning that is happening, not just pretty pictures of laptops... how
> to do that???
>
> -walter
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Christian, in fact I have a friend who is a studio photographer and
>> when I asked last week he offered to do ad-quality studio shots on a
>> white background.
>>
>> He said he preferred adding screens in Photoshop, that it's too
>> complicated to direct light onto a computer without making the screen
>> look awful.
>>
>> I have half a dozen XO-1s, a Classmate, an EeePC and and Acer Aspire One.
>>
>> Ideally, shots with both v0.82 on an XO-1 and SoaS on the XO-1 and the
>> other machines woould be cool I think...
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Christian Marc Schmidt
>> <christianmarc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Sean, on laptop.org we used retouched images of the XO with a mockup of the
>>> interface on the screen that was later added in Photoshop:
>>> http://www.laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/index.shtml
>>>
>>> I think it would be useful to shoot Sugar 0.82 on the XO-1 and also other
>>> the classmate and other hardware isolated against a white background,
>>> similar to the way these photos were shot. Perhaps Mike can help with that?
>>> We could point him towards these images for guidance...
>>>
>>>
>>> Christian
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/04/india-embraces-olpc-buys-250000-xo-laptops.ars
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know if a similar XO-1 photo with Sugar 0.82 is available?
>>>>
>>>> Sean
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