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[Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Keep rocking, Nick! You're my man!

This looks awesome, keep us up to date!

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On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Nicholas Lawson
<nicholas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
> ________________________________
>
> 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
>
>
>
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