[6232] in Release_7.7_team
Re: publicity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Thu Feb 26 18:46:19 2009
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
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I'll send out revised publicity tomorrow, note that I am also out of
the office tomorrow.
Are we calling it "Athena 10" or not? And what URL should I put on
the publicity? athena10.mit.edu? debathena.mit.edu/beta/? (I prefer
the latter).
Wednesday morning would be ideal for installs, I think. I realize
it's two additional days, but:
- we will have met at release-team the day before and sanity-checked
everything
- OLC meets on Wednesday afternoons for training, meaning the
consultants will only have a few hours of deployment before training,
vs two days if we install on Monday.
- We have more time to settle on the URL
- Rather than scramble to deal on Monday morning, I think we should
take two extra days and ensure that we do this right.
Whatever we do, installing on Friday afternoon is definitely not a
good idea.
-Jon
On Feb 26, 2009, at 5:02 PM, William Cattey wrote:
> Inasmuch as we closed the last Early Blocker moments ago, this is
> now the next task on the critical path to installing some early
> systems. (PXE is back up.)
>
> I agree with tabbott that we should add "Beta" for expectation
> setting.
>
> How about changing the first sign to say,
>
> "This cluster contains workstations running a Beta test of the new
> Athena 10 release"
>
> and changing second sign to read:
>
> Athena 10
> Beta Test
> Workstation
>
> Inasmuch as other publicity also points people at athena10.mit.edu,
> leaving that URL as-is is fine.
>
> Jon,
>
> Can you cook up an update, and then maybe you and I can go install
> some systems? Ordinarily I'd jump on it and say Friday, but maybe
> we want to do it Monday afternoon so that we can make site visits
> during business hours if they break.
>
> -Bill
>
>
>
> On Feb 25, 2009, at 10:05 AM, 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> <athena10-cluster-door.pdf>
>>
>>
>> <athena10-workstation.pdf>
>
