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Re: publicity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Thu Feb 26 19:05:02 2009
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:04:17 -0500
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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I like debathena.mit.edu/beta/ - I know it was created to preview what a
merged website looks like, but calling this "Debathena Beta" seems more
or less appropriate.
- Evan
Jonathan Reed wrote:
> 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>
>>
>
