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["Nicholas Lawson" <nicholas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I thought I would let you in on something that could be kind of special
happening at Media Bridges ... I shall keep you posted.


From: erith@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: thelinuxguy@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: FW: Synopsis of P&G's Purpose for Nov. 8th Meeting
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 16:30:15 -0400

Mr. Corbet,

I have discussed your presence with Emily from P&G and she has sent me the
following information. I wanted to share this information with you because I
thought it may help you better understand why a researcher from Proctor and
Gamble would be at Media Bridges in the first place. I have spoken with my
supervisor and it is apparent that we at Media Bridges could be in a
position to provide our assets to the Open Source community in as much as it
would be possible to enrich the Open Source community by having real time
programming geared towards a specific demographic ... i.e. Open Source
Developers. I know that Emily finds the prospect of entering into the FOSS
community as a distinct possibility as the retail organization that she has
worked with from my understanding has fallen drastically short of solving
their problem statement. From what I understand the below information is the
problem statement that her division is interested in solving.

I am envisioning a situation where on a regular basis we have lead
developers on this project here at Media Bridges turning Media Bridges for a
time into a live broadcast version of an IRC Chatroom. It would make sense
to me to present a real world problem to the Open Source community here in
Cincinnati and begin to delve into the details of how to solve the problem
either live on television or with pre recorded information that would enable
for a more expedient solution to the problem that has been presented to me. 

I have never seen programming on Time Warner cable that was geared
specifically to a highly developed computer literate culture. I believe that
thousands of people would be interested to hear what high level programming
conversation sounds like when solving a high level problem. This is a place
where such conversations can take place and would in my opinion shed light
on a topic that people are interested in but lacking the resources /
keywords / memes with which to enter into the community. If you do not know
the phrase "Open Source" how then can you search for it to learn of its
existence in an engine. I believe that a number of solutions could be solved
through the utilization of Media Bridges as a conduit to all things Open
Source. If we are fully transitioning over to an Open Source Solution then I
imagine we could at the very least attempt to with our resources raise the
level of awareness of the Open Source world through community created media
whose purpose could be to bring more into the folds of the Open Source
environment. 

What would you do at the convergence point of broadcast television and the
open source community? We can provide that opportunity here at Media
Bridges? Imagine professional Open Source programmers developing media
addressing their problems concerns and aspirations as programmers for the
entirety of Cincinnati to have insight into. I have seen Ubuntu media
content on YouTube ... I would like to see it on Media Bridges programming
channels. We have four of them.

You would be able to call Emily at the number below and if you so chose
discuss with her in person her problem and see if there is a chemistry
between yourself and herself that could be geared towards solving her
problem. That I imagine is up to you, however, it could be helpful for the
entire function if there was some preliminary discussion so that we could
bypass the niceties and direct our time to the presentation I will be
providing and the discussion that I will be facilitating in the aftermath. 

I look forward to hearing from you and hope that this email can be helpful
to you in shaping your understanding of what Media Bridges is interested in
and why Proctor and Gamble would be interested in attending a function at
our facilities. 

from boys to men,

Nicholas Lawson

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To: erith@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 13:33:09 -0400
Subject: Synopsis of P&G's Purpose for Nov. 8th Meeting

Nicholas-

 

I am excited to see your presentation on Monday and would like to thank you
(and everyone involved) for being able to move the meeting up on such short
notice.  As you requested, I have written a short paragraph outlining the
problem that we have at P&G and what we perceive to be help.  Please let me
know if you are looking for more/less information.

 

Thanks

 

.         Currently, P&G uses human intervention to transfer formulation
data from a Macro-enabled Excel sheet to our corporate documentation system.
This causes delays in the launch of our initiatives due to the time required
for a person to input all the necessary information.  This can also cause
issues with data being transferred correctly due to human error.  We are
looking for an electronic solution that would be able to map the information
from the Excel sheet to our corporate system quickly and accurately. 

 

Emily Fairall

Procter & Gamble - Sr. Functional Specialist