Attached a shortened, TODAY-centric piece to this email -- let me know what you think. Bullet points: * SHORT * highlights developer travel * mentions small donations plusgood, not just big * skips detail on non-community fundraising numbers, lest individual donors feel less inclined to give * draws "example" content from the submitted talks -- I know that's not perfect, but it makes the content "real" for people who've never been in the past. Additions? Subtractions? I do want to keep this short-n-sweet; we can link to longer copy on the site & wiki for the interested; the idea is just to draw them in and highlight the need. Thanks, Nate <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Jon Phillips <<a href="mailto:jon@rejon.org">jon@rejon.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Femke Snelting <<a href="mailto:snelting@collectifs.net">snelting@collectifs.net</a>> wrote: >> Femke, N8 and friends, we need to put the full court press on this week! >> N8, can you lead the writing of a press release and lets target a rapid >> turnaround of WED PST to do an announcement. >> We can announce how much money we've raised, > > we've got an ok sum of public funding (our second application was confirmed last week + Francophonie) and happy to see Pledgie picking up </div>So how much total do we have now? <div class="im"> >> how much we need, the >> sponsorship packages, who is sponsoring and then of course saying we >> have a deadline of May 1 for submitting presentations. > > ok, I was working from an 1 April deadline but it explains why probably not many core teams proposed a talk yet ;-) > Happy to extend, if it helps but we'll need to fix the programme a.s.a.p. after that deadline. </div>Totally, we need a super well communicated deadline. Saturday, May 1. Done. No more. <div class="im"> >> Femke, how does this sound to you? We really need this and I think. > > sounds fine! > >> We are in #create to talk about this on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_self">irc.freenode.net</a> >> <<a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_self">http://irc.freenode.net</a>> and #lgm. Please hop in via your favorite >> client or here: <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=create" target="_self">http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=create</a> >> >> Thoughts? > > I'm starting local press this week. </div>Ok, great. Nate, could you put something together from all this data onto the wiki? :) Cheers guys, I'll keep on getting money and stuff moving fwd there...is WED of this week realistic? Jon > > best > > Femke <div><div></div><div class="h5">> -- Jon Phillips <a href="http://rejon.org/" target="_self">http://rejon.org/</a> <a href="http://fabricatorz.com/" target="_self">http://fabricatorz.com/</a> <a href="http://status.net/" target="_self">http://status.net/</a> <a href="http://rejon.status.net" target="_self">http://rejon.status.net</a> + skype: kidproto +1.415.830.3884 (sf/global) +86.134.3957.2035 (china) </div></div></blockquote></div> -- nathan.p.willis <a href="mailto:nwillis@glyphography.com">nwillis@glyphography.com</a> aim/ym/gtalk:n8willis <a href="http://identi.ca/n8">identi.ca/n8</a>