[FM Discuss] almost but no cigar

[Vito Smolej]

Why not add a bashful "contribute" - via PayPal for instance - icon to the site? Now that the project got attention, it could work... It would make sense in any case

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> Datum: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 04:42:27 +0100
> Von: adam <adam at xs4all.nl>
> An: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> Betreff: Re: [FM Discuss] almost but no cigar

> nono...i mean they were very very good at getting votes through their
> network. we could see it - if we came close they woke up their networks
> and put on 100 votes in a few hours...it happened 2 or 3 times like
> this. my feeling is that if we had reached 500, 600, 1200 votes they
> would have always had about 80 more within a very short time. The fact
> we came so close was pretty good.
> 
> there was nothing dodgy they just had an extremely effective and
> enormous network to draw on for drumming up votes
> 
> 
> 
> 
> adam
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 20:58 -0500, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 20:28, helen varley jamieson
> > <helen at creative-catalyst.com> wrote:
> > > darn - that is a bit crap if a voting machine would be able to skew
> > > something like that! surely there should be some way to stop that kind
> of
> > > thing happening?
> > 
> > I happen to be a founding member of the Open Voting Consortium, which
> > is creating Free/Libre/Open Source Software for just such uses. I'm
> > going to bother them about writing a book here.
> > 
> > > however as you say there are lots of good things & certainly the
> amount of
> > > publicity & word of mouth spreading of booki has been great. good to
> hear
> > > also about the positive reception at transmediale.
> > >
> > > the real prize here is booki :)
> > >
> > > h : )
> > >
> > > On 6/02/11 1:08 AM, adam hyde wrote:
> > >>
> > >> hey all,
> > >>
> > >> We didn't get the votes. Almost but not quite. We were up against a
> > >> voting machine it seems so its pretty amazing we even got so far.
> > >>
> > >> I am a bit disappointed but it will pass shortly. However there have
> > >> been three really good things that came out of it:
> > >> * while Aco and I sold the idea of booki at Transmediale we met an
> awful
> > >> amount of people that were amazed by it. Actually, everyone we
> > >> demonstrated booki to was blown away. I'm really not exaggerating - I
> > >> dont think I presented it to anyone (and I must have talked to about
> 150
> > >> people) that wasnt totally into it once they understood it. That is
> > >> AMAZING and extremely encouraging.
> > >>
> > >> * The PR from the award will be good for us, and I think Drumbeat
> will
> > >> illuminate Booki and FM on their website when they push the
> announcement
> > >> of the award on their to-be-released new website.
> > >>
> > >> * It was astonishing how much support came back when I did the calls
> out
> > >> for help. Pretty amazing. The comments in the Drumbeat project pages
> > >> about booki were fantastic and I received a lot of email and messages
> > >> from a wide spectrum of people that love FM and booki. It might sound
> > >> gushy, but that has been pretty humbling.
> > >>
> > >> so, while we didnt get the award we did come out with more than what
> we
> > >> came with. Thats pretty cool I rekin.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> adam
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > ____________________________________________________________
> > >
> > > helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst
> > > helen at creative-catalyst.com
> > > http://www.creative-catalyst.com
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> > > http://www.upstage.org.nz
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