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Re: publicity

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Thu Feb 26 11:11:02 2009

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:10:19 -0500 (EST)
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I would consider putting the word "beta" prominently on the flyers, since 
I think that sets people's expectations correctly.

	-Tim Abbott

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Jonathan Reed wrote:

> Here's a first draft at publicity.  athena10-workstation.pdf is designed to be
> taped to the table next to the workstation.   athena10-cluster.pdf has two
> things - the top half will be taped to the cluster door, the bottom half will
> be taped on top of every athena 10 workstation display, probably folded
> somehow and printed on cardstock (I'm not concerned with those logistics at
> the moment)
> 
> Please review the docs and let me know what you think.  Yes, I know some of
> them say "Debathena" and others say "Athena 10".  I think we probably do want
> to standardize on "Debathena", however the problem is I don't yet have a URL
> to print on them, since my changes to the Debathena pages aren't yet ready,
> and I don't want cluster installs to block on that.  athena10.mit.edu was a
> fine URL to print on there, since we can point it wherever.  But perhaps we
> don't want to do that if we're going to merge the two sites, and we don't want
> the URL to say "Athena10" when everything else says Debathena.
> 
> I've thought too much about this already, so I'm going to pass the buck to
> someone else to make the final decision.   As a last resort, we could create
> web.mit.edu/newathena/ as a temporary redirect and point it wherever.
> 
> 
> 

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