Maybe we should encourage every Sugar community member to write a letter to their local paper.
-walter On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Caroline Meeks <carol...@solutiongrove.com> wrote: > Reply from my local paper. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Schuler, Rory <rschu...@cnc.com> > Date: Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:13 AM > Subject: RE: Sugar on a Stick - Article > To: Caroline Meeks <carol...@solutiongrove.com> > > > Caroline, Would you be willing/able to write a first-person piece on the > endeavor? Since you're pretty much the local hook, I think that would be the > best way to approach it. Please let me know. > > > Rory Schuler > Editor > The Winchester Star > 781-674-7740 (o) > 610-764-3405 (c) > > Be the first to know when news breaks in Winchester … > Sign up for breaking news e-mail alerts at: > http://wickedlocalcontests.com/signup/Winchester/winchester.php > > Visit The Star's Web site, > www.wickedlocal.com/winchester > > > ________________________________ > From: solutiongr...@gmail.com [mailto:solutiongr...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > Caroline Meeks > Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:32 PM > To: Winchester Star (News) > Subject: Sugar on a Stick - Article > > Dear Mr. Schuler, > > I am a Winchester resident (49 Thornberry Road) and I am involved in > an education project for elementary school aged children with the nonprofit > Sugar Labs > foundation. Sugar Labs (http://www.sugarlabs.org) provides the free > open source software environment used in the One Laptop per Child > computer, designed in the Boston area and over a million of which have > been distributed to kids in developing countries. Sugar Labs has > created a version of the OLPC software called Sugar on a Stick > (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick) which can run any PC > (and many Macs too) from an ordinary thumbdrive. > Sugar Labs and students from Harvard Graduate School of Education and Boston > University are running a > pilot at a Boston Public School in Allston and we need donations of used > computers and sponsors for USB sticks. Any publicity would help our project > enormously and we were > hoping we could interest you in publishing an article about what's > happening at the school - the teachers and learners are very excited! > > A recent BU journalism graduate wrote a piece on us and we have not > yet placed it, perhaps it could be a starting point? > > Thank you, > > Caroline Meeks > > Details on the computer donations: Email Caroline Meeks > cme...@sugarlabs.org to arrange pickup. We are looking for Pentium 4 or > better computers. We can only accept monitors less then 19" in size. > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > carol...@solutiongrove.com > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > > The preceding e-mail message (including any attachments) contains > information that may be confidential, may be protected by the > attorney-client or other applicable privileges, or may constitute non-public > information. It is intended to be conveyed only to the designated > recipient(s) named above. If you are not an intended recipient of this > message, please notify the sender by replying to this message and then > delete all copies of it from your computer system. Any use, dissemination, > distribution, or reproduction of this message by unintended recipients is > not authorized and may be unlawful. > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > carol...@solutiongrove.com > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > > _______________________________________________ > Marketing mailing list > Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing