Re: [K12OSN] K12LTSP Getting Any Publicity?

Richard K. Ingalls (awm002@mail.connect.more.net)
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 07:59:26 -0500


Eric Harrison wrote:

>On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Richard K. Ingalls wrote:
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>>I'm trying to get local TV news and newspapers to cover the story about 
>>my school's K12LTSP lab.  I think that in this time of budget crunching 
>>for most states, OpenSource software would be a hot topic!  Apparently, 
>>I'm not selling this concept very well to the media, since no one has 
>>taken me up on the offer to come to my school and visit the lab.  Does 
>>anyone have any ideas about getting some media coverage? 
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>Dare I be so bold as to recommend having a large proprietary software
>company threaten you with an audit as a mechanism to draw the press's
>attention? ;-)
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>-Eric
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Well Eric, they say negative publicity is still better than NO publicity 
at all!   :-D

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