[FM Discuss] almost but no cigar

[Edward Cherlin]

Can we take down the urgent pleas now?

http://en.flossmanuals.net/
http://booki.flossmanuals.net/
http://openweb.flossmanuals.net/

URGENT We need your help TODAY!
Last day for the open web awards voting is Friday night European time.

To vote go here: http://vote.booki.cc

And encourage others to vote! BEFORE FRIDAY NIGHT!


On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 19:08, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> 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
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Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
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