<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:10 PM, 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;"> Looks good. Yes, needs more bullet points, a reference to call for participation ending May 1 and also, the title should say Libre Graphics Meeting 2010. </blockquote><div>OK. I'll do that, then add it to the wiki . </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Nate, you want to put yourself down as press contact? i can be that as well...all my data is below... </blockquote><div>Sure. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Ok, so, lokoing good...i'm ready to launch it out whenever :) If those changes can get in, and a stable version is put up on the wiki, then we can send out to the fabricatorz press list... </blockquote><div>Do you want to add that to the Create wiki as well; we may be able to collect contacts from some other folks on the list as well.... </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Florica, this is the press announcement for final call for libregraphicsmeeting...once the post is finalized, I'd like to push this asap. Nate, is it realistic to launch it today, or better to launch in the morning? </blockquote><div> I think we're good to go for today. It'll hit "morning" in Europe anyway, waiting until tomorrow/US would push that back.... Nate </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Jon <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Nathan Willis <<a href="mailto:nwillis@glyphography.com">nwillis@glyphography.com</a>> wrote: > 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 > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Jon Phillips <<a href="mailto:jon@rejon.org">jon@rejon.org</a>> wrote: >> >> 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 >> >> So how much total do we have now? >> >> >> 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. >> >> Totally, we need a super well communicated deadline. Saturday, May 1. >> Done. No more. >> >> >> 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. >> >> 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 >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> 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) > > > > -- > nathan.p.willis > <a href="mailto:nwillis@glyphography.com">nwillis@glyphography.com</a> > aim/ym/gtalk:n8willis > <a href="http://identi.ca/n8" target="_self">identi.ca/n8</a> > </div></div>-- <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>