(1) I recently bartered for a Lemote YeeLoong (thanks, Graziano! :-) and it strikes me that unlike say the OLPC XO its physical appearance doesn't scream "I'm different", so perhaps it could use some gnewsense-art help.
(1a) My idea is to create a pretty sticker that would take up a good bit of the real estate on the top cover of the system; however I don't really have the artistic skills to create such a sticker. (I would however be happy to pay for a first run once we have a graphic.) (1b) The sticker would point at a companion website that would explain to the layperson why the yeeloong + gnewsense is important / a first in the world. For more information, see: http://FirstFreeLaptop.com/wiki?name=planning (Current text also included below at [1] - but the site also has pictures of the current suboptimal sticker I made etc.) If you are at all interested in working on this, send me a private, preferably GnuPG-encrypted email with your preferred username and password an I'll give you access to the above site. (2) It also might be good to create a gNewSense-specific sticker, for more generic use on any laptop; I looked at the existing graphics but I don't think there are any that would lead someone looking at it to say to themselves "Gee, I should go check out http://gNewSense.org !" - since "gNewSense.org" is less self-explanatory than "FirstFreeLaptop.com", perhaps there should also be text like "Free as in Freedom" or something like that. Note that these are both my personal ideas as a member of the gNewSense community, not things I am doing on behalf of my employer, the FSF; however I think there would be a good chance my employer would be interested in selling / giving away at events any stickers the gNewSense community would come up with, and the website might be synergistic with future campaigns. Happy New Year and Happy Hacking, -- Daniel JB Clark | Sys Admin, Free Software Foundation pobox.com/~dclark | http://www.fsf.org/about/staff#danny [1] FirstFreeLaptop.com: planning http://FirstFreeLaptop.com/wiki?name=planning Idea is to have an easy-to-remember website aimed at people who are interested in the yeeloong in general but for whom existing sites may be lacking / too full of information they don't need at first. Nice-looking "brochureware" site that clearly gets across 4 points in the simplest possible way, with nice graphics: 1. The yeeloong hardware supports being used by free as in freedom software, and why this is good and a first in the world (mention some things that were almost there, like the OLPC XO). 2. You can purchase a yeeloong now from anywhere in the world - nicer form of [http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/Lemote#toc81|gNewSense: Lemote: Availability & commercialization] 3. Why you should run gNewSense metad GNU/Linux on your yeeloong. 4. You can get involved in the FaiF Yeeloong community (links to everything). Should also put some of the standard FSF website widgets on site (eg become a member, member drive). Marketing: 1. Make nice, <b>vinyl</b> stickers people can put on their yeeloongs, prominently featuring in large type visible from far away "http://FirstFreeLaptop.com";. (Examples: <a href="doc/tip/www/images/djbclark/1-top.jpg">top</a>, <a href="doc/tip/www/images/djbclark/2-bottom.jpg ">bottom</a>, <a href="doc/tip/www/images/djbclark/3-case-front.jpg">case-front</a>, <a href="doc/tip/www/images/djbclark/4-case-back.jpg">case-back</a>, <a href="doc/tip/www/images/djbclark/5-open-front.jpg">open-front</a>, <a href="doc/tip/www/images/djbclark/6-open-back.jpg">open-back</a>). Should feature gNewSense and maybe Lemote logos (the second maybe as Lemote is already on the front cover, but perhaps people will put these stickers other places as well.) Use [http://websticker.com/|WebSticker] as vendor. 2. Encourage people to take pictures of themselves with their yeeloongs and their stickers / submit somehow, and to partake in the FSF's video testimonial program with their yeeloongs / stickers visable. 3. Possibly offer free dynamic dns service for the yeeloongs of the first X people to do one of the above things (yourcomputer.firstfreelaptop.com). Technical details: This should all just be HTML and CSS, stored in Fossil SCM version control. (Note that file named "index.html" checked into a "www" directory in fossil would be available as [http://FirstFreeLaptop.com/doc/tip/www/index.html]) Besides keeping it simple, this will also allow people to easily grab the entire website for viewing / showing to other people when offline, which is often the case with laptops. (For an example of this, see [http://www.fsf.org/membercard])
