Re: [IAEP] Topics deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-03-2009: Sugar 8.4 launch date set!

2009-03-11 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: Nice idea, but it's not google-compatible. Rather unlikely that sugar chocolate will lead one to discover 0.82 ... It's too bad Sugar is such a

Re: [IAEP] Topics deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-03-2009: Sugar 8.4 launch date set

2009-03-08 Thread Sean DALY
: [IAEP] Topics deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-03-2009: Sugar 8.4 launch date set! Josh - reaching hundreds of thousands of teachers and parents is different from talking with half a dozen distributions (and OEMs too), and of course we need to do both - and we are. That said, I am

Re: [IAEP] Topics deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-03-2009: Sugar 8.4 launch date set!

2009-03-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 01:36:37AM +0100, Sean DALY wrote: Bert made a very astute observation: we need to be Googlable. Luke is quite right, Sugar by itself is ungooglable and Sugar needs Labs close by in this context. Searching just for the

Re: [IAEP] Topics deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-03-2009: Sugar 8.4 launch date set!

2009-03-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [sent again - to the marketing team too this time] On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 01:36:37AM +0100, Sean DALY wrote: Bert made a very astute observation: we need to be Googlable. Luke is quite right, Sugar by itself is ungooglable and Sugar needs Labs

Re: [IAEP] Topics deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-03-2009: Sugar 8.4 launch date set!

2009-03-07 Thread Sean DALY
Josh - reaching hundreds of thousands of teachers and parents is different from talking with half a dozen distributions (and OEMs too), and of course we need to do both - and we are. That said, I am convinced the more Sugar succeeds,the more distributions will be encouraged to include and promote

Re: [IAEP] Topics deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-03-2009: Sugar 8.4 launch date set!

2009-03-06 Thread Morgan Collett
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 09:55, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: No, not nitpicking! Let's be clear what the version number is. I have seen both 0.84 and 8.4 and 8.4.0 and 8.4.1, and for the nontechnical user the build number can be confusing. Which is it? 0.84.0. It's a release of

Re: [IAEP] Topics deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-03-2009: Sugar 8.4 launch date set!

2009-03-06 Thread Sean DALY
Extremely informative Morgan, many thanks indeed. I am confused! From a marketing PR point of view (bear with me please) I find it very odd that a version used by hundreds of thousands of children is still zero point something. The nontechnical computer-using mind historically assumes v1.0 is

Re: [IAEP] Topics deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-03-2009: Sugar 8.4 launch date set!

2009-03-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 01:00:13PM +0100, Sean DALY wrote: Extremely informative Morgan, many thanks indeed. I am confused! Marvellous introduction to your controversial proposal :-) can we please consider a cleaner, more comprehensible numbering

Re: [IAEP] Topics deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-03-2009: Sugar 8.4 launch date set!

2009-03-06 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: But now we seem to have decided to push Sugar as a brand, much stronger than GNOME has been to date. And we are also selling a product: Sugar on a Stick. Perhaps we start a different numbering system for the product. The

Re: [IAEP] Topics deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-03-2009: Sugar 8.4 launch date set!

2009-03-06 Thread Antoine van Gelder
On 06 Mar 2009, at 14:37 , Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Anyone sees other interesting models on which to base our strategy? It's hardware and not software, but it is still an interesting model: http://antipastohw.blogspot.com/2009/03/introducing-open-source-hardware.html - antoine --

Re: [IAEP] Topics deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-03-2009: Sugar 8.4 launch date set!

2009-03-06 Thread Luke Faraone
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote: Nice idea, but it's not google-compatible. Rather unlikely that sugar chocolate will lead one to discover 0.82 ... It's too bad Sugar is such a generic word :( How about Sugar Labs Chocolate? :) -- Luke Faraone

Re: [IAEP] Topics deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-03-2009: Sugar 8.4 launch date set!

2009-03-06 Thread Sean DALY
These comments have been very useful - thank you. I apologize for the long post below, but I feel the subjects are very important for the project, and with a week to go until the media launch we need to sort ourselves out. Jonas said: If you were too confused to say I run Sugar 0.82 on OLPC-OS

Re: [IAEP] Topics deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-03-2009: Sugar 8.4 launch date set!

2009-03-05 Thread Gary C Martin
On 6 Mar 2009, at 00:53, Sean DALY wrote: http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/Meetings/03-03-2009 (note: I messed up with #start-meeting instead of #startmeeting so the meetbot did not log, many thanks to Tomeu and Mel for getting that transcript online at above link) Hi everyone -

Re: [IAEP] Topics deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-03-2009: Sugar 8.4 launch date set!

2009-03-05 Thread Sean DALY
No, not nitpicking! Let's be clear what the version number is. I have seen both 0.84 and 8.4 and 8.4.0 and 8.4.1, and for the nontechnical user the build number can be confusing. Which is it? Thanks Sean On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 6 Mar