Re: [IAEP] Funding team?
Marketing is not fundraising. In traditional FOSS projects, marketing really means contributor recruitment, which is not marketing either. I've been asked in the past to organize translations, with the argument that everything non-engineering is automatically marketing. I agree 100% there should be a fundraising team, the lack of resources is a critical problem for Sugar Labs. Sean On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:14 PM, moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote: On Fri, August 12, 2011 12:49 am, Chris Leonard wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:30 PM, moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote: I would like to propose that we create a funding team to pursue grant opportunities and partnerships for Sugar Labs, including Activity development, translation, documentation, teacher training materials, and digital content integrating software into lessons and explorations. To get things started, I have created a temporary page with some suggestions. There are lots more. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Funding We need people to gather and document opportunities; grant writers; and proposals for what to fund. Some people think that this is still a bad time to ask for money, but I hear that corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars of cash equivalents. Edward, The question I have is whether it is necessary to instantiate a new Team or whether to add this as a function / focus area within the Marketing Team. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team It is my impression that one of the major expenditures of a FOSS project is funding travel to events. The Marketing Team is already engaged in tracking Sugar relevant events as well as being centrally involved in the production of the sorts of materials that a fundraising group would require for applications and presentations to potential funders (e.g. media kits, etc.) That would be fine with me, if Marketing wants it. Anybody here from Marketing? However, I am concerned with funding Development, Localization, Translation, and possible contracts with governments for e-learning content, curriculum development, teacher training,... I am more concerned that we get people willing to follow up on commitments rather than with formal organization. So far, nobody has stepped up in reply to my suggestion, so this discussion is premature. On the theory that ten teams of nine people are better and more stable to turnover than thirty teams of three people, as well as being better equipped for surge capacity when needed, what would you think of the idea of developing your initiative(s) within the context of the Marketing Team umbrella instead as a separate effort. Obviously any effort representing Sugar Labs to funding sources (and committing Sugar Labs to the contractual conditions of such funding such as financial and other progress reporting and tracking requirements) would need close coordination with the Oversight Board and the SFC which would most likely act as the conduit through which funding would be channeled. Again, this is premature. Of course we will liaise with our partners as required, but right now there is nothing to liaise over. cjl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (#40664;#38647;/#2343;#2352;#2381;#2350;#2350;#2375;#2328;#2358;#2348;#2381;#2342;#2327;#2352;#2381;#2332;/#1583;#1726;#1585;#1605;#1605;#1740;#1711;#1726;#1588;#1576;#1583;#1711;#1585; #1580;) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Funding team?
Hi Folks, I was reading through the agreement with the Software Freedom Conservancy. It is great that this is in place. It can insure transparency, if the guidelines are followed. As a 501c3 non-profit organization, you have to be very careful to use the right terminology... Marketing is not the right terminology. I might suggest using Development which is the term many NGOs (including universities) use. They do all sorts of fund raising activities under the umbrella of Development. As an aside, a few years back I attended a large environmental enclave in Washington DC sponsored by the Environmental Justice arm of the NCCC (but we had Jews attending as well). When we went to Capitol Hill to discuss issues of concern, we were told specifically not to talk about lobbying. We were advocating. Lobbying was for business interests. Advocating was for NGOs! So... If I can be of any help on the Development Team, count me in! I might just get a chance to dust off my grant-writing skills. Caryl From: sdaly...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:02:04 +0200 To: moku...@earthtreasury.org; cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; market...@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [IAEP] Funding team? Marketing is not fundraising. In traditional FOSS projects, marketing really means contributor recruitment, which is not marketing either. I've been asked in the past to organize translations, with the argument that everything non-engineering is automatically marketing. I agree 100% there should be a fundraising team, the lack of resources is a critical problem for Sugar Labs. Sean On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:14 PM, moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote: On Fri, August 12, 2011 12:49 am, Chris Leonard wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:30 PM, moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote: I would like to propose that we create a funding team to pursue grant opportunities and partnerships for Sugar Labs, including Activity development, translation, documentation, teacher training materials, and digital content integrating software into lessons and explorations. To get things started, I have created a temporary page with some suggestions. There are lots more. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Funding We need people to gather and document opportunities; grant writers; and proposals for what to fund. Some people think that this is still a bad time to ask for money, but I hear that corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars of cash equivalents. Edward, The question I have is whether it is necessary to instantiate a new Team or whether to add this as a function / focus area within the Marketing Team. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team It is my impression that one of the major expenditures of a FOSS project is funding travel to events. The Marketing Team is already engaged in tracking Sugar relevant events as well as being centrally involved in the production of the sorts of materials that a fundraising group would require for applications and presentations to potential funders (e.g. media kits, etc.) That would be fine with me, if Marketing wants it. Anybody here from Marketing? However, I am concerned with funding Development, Localization, Translation, and possible contracts with governments for e-learning content, curriculum development, teacher training,... I am more concerned that we get people willing to follow up on commitments rather than with formal organization. So far, nobody has stepped up in reply to my suggestion, so this discussion is premature. On the theory that ten teams of nine people are better and more stable to turnover than thirty teams of three people, as well as being better equipped for surge capacity when needed, what would you think of the idea of developing your initiative(s) within the context of the Marketing Team umbrella instead as a separate effort. Obviously any effort representing Sugar Labs to funding sources (and committing Sugar Labs to the contractual conditions of such funding such as financial and other progress reporting and tracking requirements) would need close coordination with the Oversight Board and the SFC which would most likely act as the conduit through which funding would be channeled. Again, this is premature. Of course we will liaise with our partners as required, but right now there is nothing to liaise over. cjl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (#40664;#38647;/#2343;#2352;#2381;#2350;#2350;#2375;#2328;#2358;#2348;#2381;#2342;#2327;#2352;#2381;#2332;/#1583;#1726;#1585;#1605;#1605;#1740;#1711;#1726;#1588;#1576;#1583;#1711;#1585; #1580;) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos
Re: [IAEP] Funding team?
Thanks for this propositions, we are(our company) working on creating platform that will support digital education in Nigeria, but we noticed that if we do not start with teachers readiness then it may take longer to get serious adoption. We have been paying close attention to what is happening in several areas, and my personal suggestion is that every useful effort should be pursued as they occur, everything will converge eventually and contribute to the objectives, but there could be regret for inactivity. Discovering the sources of available funding is the most difficult situation confronting us, although we are profit making organization, our approach is to help government partners that we support to prepare grant proposals and applications and provide the technological/program management supports when necessary, so please share with us any useful grant makers information that are focused on Education in Africa region. Keep the good work going! best regards! David From: moku...@earthtreasury.org moku...@earthtreasury.org To: Sebastian Silva sebast...@somosazucar.org Cc: Laura Vargas la...@somosazucar.org; IAEP iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; OLPC-SUR olpc-...@lists.laptop.org Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 5:56 AM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Funding team? On Fri, August 12, 2011 9:41 pm, Sebastian Silva wrote: Earlier this year there was discussion about forming a Financial Team. I'm not sure exactly if a team is required, but formalizing mechanisms for projects like translations and content, research or development, to look for funds - sounds like an excellent idea. We (local labs) have been thinking and talking for a long time about a project bank where projects could be tracked in a platform for funding, as well as requirements and funding could be gathered in bounties or calls for proposals (the other way around). Exactly. I'm cc'in Laura who has been thinking about the design of such a system for a long time. ¡Hola! Laura. Por favor, ver http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Funding y díganos lo que piensas. Hay muchas oportunidades. What do you think? Maybe funding for developing such a platform is one of the first things to consider? It is hard to get funding to look for funding. Grantmakers want to see in advance what the proposed result of their grant for those in need is intended to be. I have in mind grants for Sugar development, for creating Open Education Resources to replace textbooks, for developing teacher training, and for localization and translation. In each of those cases we can state how many students will benefit now and can project the possibilities for the future. Translation to Spanish is one of the top priorities, in terms of numbers of children to be served. Replacing textbooks in Uruguay (starting to happen now) and Perú may rate as an even higher priority. I am planning to write to Software Freedom Conservancy, which handles donations to Sugar Labs, about how they handle fundraising projects. Their policy is to take care of administrivia and let the projects focus on development and rollout. It may be that it is more appropriate to build the platform there so that it can coordinate among all of the SFC projects. However, nothing will happen unless we get volunteers to seek out opportunities, and write the grant applications. I am assuming that given workers, we can get the board to hash out the policies. Regards, Sebastian El 12/08/11 08:30, moku...@earthtreasury.org escribió: I would like to propose that we create a funding team to pursue grant opportunities and partnerships for Sugar Labs, including Activity development, translation, documentation, teacher training materials, and digital content integrating software into lessons and explorations. To get things started, I have created a temporary page with some suggestions. There are lots more. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Funding We need people to gather and document opportunities; grant writers; and proposals for what to fund. Some people think that this is still a bad time to ask for money, but I hear that corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars of cash equivalents. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Funding team?
On Fri, August 12, 2011 12:49 am, Chris Leonard wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:30 PM, moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote: I would like to propose that we create a funding team to pursue grant opportunities and partnerships for Sugar Labs, including Activity development, translation, documentation, teacher training materials, and digital content integrating software into lessons and explorations. To get things started, I have created a temporary page with some suggestions. There are lots more. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Funding We need people to gather and document opportunities; grant writers; and proposals for what to fund. Some people think that this is still a bad time to ask for money, but I hear that corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars of cash equivalents. Edward, The question I have is whether it is necessary to instantiate a new Team or whether to add this as a function / focus area within the Marketing Team. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team It is my impression that one of the major expenditures of a FOSS project is funding travel to events. The Marketing Team is already engaged in tracking Sugar relevant events as well as being centrally involved in the production of the sorts of materials that a fundraising group would require for applications and presentations to potential funders (e.g. media kits, etc.) That would be fine with me, if Marketing wants it. Anybody here from Marketing? However, I am concerned with funding Development, Localization, Translation, and possible contracts with governments for e-learning content, curriculum development, teacher training,... I am more concerned that we get people willing to follow up on commitments rather than with formal organization. So far, nobody has stepped up in reply to my suggestion, so this discussion is premature. On the theory that ten teams of nine people are better and more stable to turnover than thirty teams of three people, as well as being better equipped for surge capacity when needed, what would you think of the idea of developing your initiative(s) within the context of the Marketing Team umbrella instead as a separate effort. Obviously any effort representing Sugar Labs to funding sources (and committing Sugar Labs to the contractual conditions of such funding such as financial and other progress reporting and tracking requirements) would need close coordination with the Oversight Board and the SFC which would most likely act as the conduit through which funding would be channeled. Again, this is premature. Of course we will liaise with our partners as required, but right now there is nothing to liaise over. cjl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (#40664;#38647;/#2343;#2352;#2381;#2350;#2350;#2375;#2328;#2358;#2348;#2381;#2342;#2327;#2352;#2381;#2332;/#1583;#1726;#1585;#1605;#1605;#1740;#1711;#1726;#1588;#1576;#1583;#1711;#1585; #1580;) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Funding team?
Earlier this year there was discussion about forming a Financial Team. I'm not sure exactly if a team is required, but formalizing mechanisms for projects like translations and content, research or development, to look for funds - sounds like an excellent idea. We (local labs) have been thinking and talking for a long time about a project bank where projects could be tracked in a platform for funding, as well as requirements and funding could be gathered in bounties or calls for proposals (the other way around). I'm cc'in Laura who has been thinking about the design of such a system for a long time. What do you think? Maybe funding for developing such a platform is one of the first things to consider? Regards, Sebastian El 12/08/11 08:30, moku...@earthtreasury.org escribió: I would like to propose that we create a funding team to pursue grant opportunities and partnerships for Sugar Labs, including Activity development, translation, documentation, teacher training materials, and digital content integrating software into lessons and explorations. To get things started, I have created a temporary page with some suggestions. There are lots more. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Funding We need people to gather and document opportunities; grant writers; and proposals for what to fund. Some people think that this is still a bad time to ask for money, but I hear that corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars of cash equivalents. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Funding team?
On Fri, August 12, 2011 9:41 pm, Sebastian Silva wrote: Earlier this year there was discussion about forming a Financial Team. I'm not sure exactly if a team is required, but formalizing mechanisms for projects like translations and content, research or development, to look for funds - sounds like an excellent idea. We (local labs) have been thinking and talking for a long time about a project bank where projects could be tracked in a platform for funding, as well as requirements and funding could be gathered in bounties or calls for proposals (the other way around). Exactly. I'm cc'in Laura who has been thinking about the design of such a system for a long time. ¡Hola! Laura. Por favor, ver http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Funding y díganos lo que piensas. Hay muchas oportunidades. What do you think? Maybe funding for developing such a platform is one of the first things to consider? It is hard to get funding to look for funding. Grantmakers want to see in advance what the proposed result of their grant for those in need is intended to be. I have in mind grants for Sugar development, for creating Open Education Resources to replace textbooks, for developing teacher training, and for localization and translation. In each of those cases we can state how many students will benefit now and can project the possibilities for the future. Translation to Spanish is one of the top priorities, in terms of numbers of children to be served. Replacing textbooks in Uruguay (starting to happen now) and Perú may rate as an even higher priority. I am planning to write to Software Freedom Conservancy, which handles donations to Sugar Labs, about how they handle fundraising projects. Their policy is to take care of administrivia and let the projects focus on development and rollout. It may be that it is more appropriate to build the platform there so that it can coordinate among all of the SFC projects. However, nothing will happen unless we get volunteers to seek out opportunities, and write the grant applications. I am assuming that given workers, we can get the board to hash out the policies. Regards, Sebastian El 12/08/11 08:30, moku...@earthtreasury.org escribió: I would like to propose that we create a funding team to pursue grant opportunities and partnerships for Sugar Labs, including Activity development, translation, documentation, teacher training materials, and digital content integrating software into lessons and explorations. To get things started, I have created a temporary page with some suggestions. There are lots more. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Funding We need people to gather and document opportunities; grant writers; and proposals for what to fund. Some people think that this is still a bad time to ask for money, but I hear that corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars of cash equivalents. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (#40664;#38647;/#2343;#2352;#2381;#2350;#2350;#2375;#2328;#2358;#2348;#2381;#2342;#2327;#2352;#2381;#2332;/#1583;#1726;#1585;#1605;#1605;#1740;#1711;#1726;#1588;#1576;#1583;#1711;#1585; #1580;) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Funding team?
I would like to propose that we create a funding team to pursue grant opportunities and partnerships for Sugar Labs, including Activity development, translation, documentation, teacher training materials, and digital content integrating software into lessons and explorations. To get things started, I have created a temporary page with some suggestions. There are lots more. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Funding We need people to gather and document opportunities; grant writers; and proposals for what to fund. Some people think that this is still a bad time to ask for money, but I hear that corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars of cash equivalents. -- Edward Mokurai (#40664;#38647;/#2343;#2352;#2381;#2350;#2350;#2375;#2328;#2358;#2348;#2381;#2342;#2327;#2352;#2381;#2332;/#1583;#1726;#1585;#1605;#1605;#1740;#1711;#1726;#1588;#1576;#1583;#1711;#1585; #1580;) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Funding team?
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:30 PM, moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote: I would like to propose that we create a funding team to pursue grant opportunities and partnerships for Sugar Labs, including Activity development, translation, documentation, teacher training materials, and digital content integrating software into lessons and explorations. To get things started, I have created a temporary page with some suggestions. There are lots more. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Funding We need people to gather and document opportunities; grant writers; and proposals for what to fund. Some people think that this is still a bad time to ask for money, but I hear that corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars of cash equivalents. Edward, The question I have is whether it is necessary to instantiate a new Team or whether to add this as a function / focus area within the Marketing Team. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team It is my impression that one of the major expenditures of a FOSS project is funding travel to events. The Marketing Team is already engaged in tracking Sugar relevant events as well as being centrally involved in the production of the sorts of materials that a fundraising group would require for applications and presentations to potential funders (e.g. media kits, etc.) On the theory that ten teams of nine people are better and more stable to turnover than thirty teams of three people, as well as being better equipped for surge capacity when needed, what would you think of the idea of developing your initiative(s) within the context of the Marketing Team umbrella instead as a separate effort. Obviously any effort representing Sugar Labs to funding sources (and committing Sugar Labs to the contractual conditions of such funding such as financial and other progress reporting and tracking requirements) would need close coordination with the Oversight Board and the SFC which would most likely act as the conduit through which funding would be channelled. cjl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Funding team?
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: Obviously any effort representing Sugar Labs to funding sources (and committing Sugar Labs to the contractual conditions of such funding such as financial and other progress reporting and tracking requirements) would need close coordination with the Oversight Board and the SFC which would most likely act as the conduit through which funding would be channelled. Specifically, any fundraising activity would need to be conducted in accordance with the agreement between Sugar Labs and the SFC linked below: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/SFC-SugarLabs_Agreement cjl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
