Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] Picked up by Sina (CN) and Baidu (CN)

2009-06-29 Thread Sean DALY
Yes we've been bubbling up through blogs since the launch. Here's a link showing USA traffic to sina.com, a paltry 343,000 sessions per month... http://www.quantcast.com/sina.com#traffic out of 900 million daily page views http://corp.sina.com.cn/eng/sina_intr_eng.htm yes, that was 900 million

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] Picked up by Sina (CN) and Baidu (CN)

2009-06-29 Thread David Farning
Yesterday, China was one of the top sources of hits for *.sugarlabs.org david On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > http://tech.sina.com.cn/s/2009-06-30/0541964963.shtml > > Sorry to bother everyone, but we have just been picked up by Sina.com > (tech news section) and Baidu.com (a

Re: [Marketing] NECC booth or room number?

2009-06-29 Thread Mike Lee
Your eyes are giving out cuz my printed flyer doesn't have your name. And as it turns out, my reasoning was correct; we ha dozens of teachers asking about how to reflash their XOs. Didn't think you'd want to get those emails or calls. Yeah, all networks were slow or jammed mid-day. 15,000 te

Re: [Marketing] [Systems] Picked up by Sina (CN) and Baidu (CN)

2009-06-29 Thread Chris Leonard
Well, the Google translation says "Click here to download the Sugar", but it doesn't seem to be a live link. cjl http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.sina.com.cn%2Fs%2F2009-06-30%2F0541964963.shtml&sl=auto&tl=en&history_state0= On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6

Re: [Marketing] [Systems] Picked up by Sina (CN) and Baidu (CN)

2009-06-29 Thread Sean DALY
I'm telling you, they leave off the links to spare us a meltdown... it's not an accident. That little extra barrier could be the floodwall that saves the town :D Sean On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Chris Leonard wrote: > Well, the Google translation says "Click here to download the Sugar", b

Re: [Marketing] NECC booth or room number?

2009-06-29 Thread Sean DALY
thanks Mike yes it's in the PDF my name was misspelled, unless my eyes are giving out I had added the two Education Week Digital Education columnists to the list today along with a dozen other journalists and bloggers who have blogged that they are there. They are all complaining about dodgy wifi

Re: [Marketing] Picked up by Sina (CN) and Baidu (CN)

2009-06-29 Thread Sean DALY
it's out of niceness... they know that non-geocached sites can be vaporized in under an hour with direct links. Think Slashdot, but a few dozen times bigger... Sean On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > They didn't seem to include any links, so it may slow the flood waters >

Re: [Marketing] Picked up by Sina (CN) and Baidu (CN)

2009-06-29 Thread Walter Bender
They didn't seem to include any links, so it may slow the flood waters somewhat. -walter On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > http://tech.sina.com.cn/s/2009-06-30/0541964963.shtml > > Sorry to bother everyone, but we have just been picked up by Sina.com > (tech news section) and Ba

Re: [Marketing] NECC booth or room number?

2009-06-29 Thread Mike Lee
Hi Sean, I'm standing at the booth and room. Romm is 152B in the lower concourse near Hall D of the D.C. Convention Center. The venuen is called the Open Source Pavilion. Sugar Labs has a table in the hallway outside of the room. I made a PDF flyer that I uploaded to the OLPC wiki, but there is n

[Marketing] Picked up by Sina (CN) and Baidu (CN)

2009-06-29 Thread Sean DALY
http://tech.sina.com.cn/s/2009-06-30/0541964963.shtml Sorry to bother everyone, but we have just been picked up by Sina.com (tech news section) and Baidu.com (a blog post). These are China's top portals. Sina claims 230 million registered users last I heard. The risk exists of a tsunami, thanks

[Marketing] NECC booth or room number?

2009-06-29 Thread Sean DALY
Hi Mike I'm looking at mailing the Strawberry press release to the new NECC contacts I have compiled, rather than doing the Nexcopy release now. Can you please confirm your booth or room number at NECC? I can prepend that to the mailing PR I saw a PDF of the press release on the OLPC wiki, unfor

[Marketing] Competitive Landscape: Agilix BrainHoney

2009-06-29 Thread Sean DALY
http://sev.prnewswire.com/education/20090628/LA3918928062009-1.html ___ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing

[Marketing] RFC: RecycleUSB.com

2009-06-29 Thread Sean Daly
We are close to going live with RecycleUSB.com, our partnership with Nexcopy I have advised them about the wrong-logo problem The goal is a frontoffice to welcome USB stick donors + a backoffice where they are loaded with Strawberry and sent to us I think their the role of their contribution cou

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2009-06-29 Thread Sean DALY
/il_sistema_operativo_olpc_e_in_download_e_sta_in_una_stick_usb http://www.tomorrowstrends.com/2009/06/sugar-labs-sugar-on-a-stick-os.html http://iambot.net/2009/06/sugar-on-a-stick/ http://it.anhuinews.com/a/8942408.shtml http://it.sohu.com/20090629/n264831282.shtml http://kopalniawiedzy.pl/Sugar-Labs

Re: [Marketing] Toshiba press release for NECC

2009-06-29 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > Thanks for that Fred > > Toshiba is a bit confused on their netbook page > (http://laptops.toshiba.com/laptops/mini-notebook/NB200); at the top > is a "Toshiba Recommends Windows Vista Ultimate" badge, while the > range offers the "familiar" Wind

Re: [Marketing] Toshiba press release for NECC

2009-06-29 Thread Sean DALY
Thanks for that Fred Toshiba is a bit confused on their netbook page (http://laptops.toshiba.com/laptops/mini-notebook/NB200); at the top is a "Toshiba Recommends Windows Vista Ultimate" badge, while the range offers the "familiar" Windows XP. The netbook seems to be the only candidate model for

[Marketing] Toshiba press release for NECC

2009-06-29 Thread Frederick Grose
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090629005320&newsLang=en ___ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] Linuxtag - Résumée

2009-06-29 Thread Frederick Grose
2009/6/29 David Farning > > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick > > is now the number two entry when googling for 'soas'! > > david I suspect there is some Google personalization weighting going on... It's on the second page for me.--Fred ___

Re: [Marketing] SoaS Strawberry release debrief - marketing

2009-06-29 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Sean DALY wrote: > I don't mind rescheduling the marketing meeting if that is helpful. > I'd like the two of you present to discuss debrief and next PR step. I'll try to tune in. david > We're fine for GCompris and Activities portal - we had decided to lump > them

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] Linuxtag - Résumée

2009-06-29 Thread David Farning
2009/6/29 Sean DALY : > I'm exhausted and even asked myself if it was worth it I was so tired > last night. But this morning I was recharged! > > I have posted a link to my Flickr photostream > (http://www.flickr.com/photos/39656...@n02/sets/72157620524327203/) at > the bottom of the LinuxTag 2009

Re: [Marketing] Linuxtag - Résumée

2009-06-29 Thread Sean DALY
I'm exhausted and even asked myself if it was worth it I was so tired last night. But this morning I was recharged! I have posted a link to my Flickr photostream (http://www.flickr.com/photos/39656...@n02/sets/72157620524327203/) at the bottom of the LinuxTag 2009 page. Simon you did a fantastic

Re: [Marketing] SoaS Strawberry release debrief - marketing

2009-06-29 Thread Caroline Meeks
Sounds good. I am on board with 2 releases. I did see at least one teacher blog in my alerts this time. My schedule is nuts this week so I don't think it makes sense to try to find a time I can make a meeting. Thanks! Caroline On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Sean DALY wrote: > I don't mind r

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Linuxtag - Résum ée

2009-06-29 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 06/29/2009 03:15 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > Hi, > > Linuxtag ( > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/LinuxTag2009 ) is > over - time for a résumée: > > I am very happy about how the conference went. The Sugar Labs booth team > were good representatives of a community that is ea

[Marketing] Linuxtag - Résumée

2009-06-29 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi, Linuxtag ( http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/LinuxTag2009 ) is over - time for a résumée: I am very happy about how the conference went. The Sugar Labs booth team were good representatives of a community that is easy to approach. I want to thank the team in spreading the

Re: [Marketing] SoaS Strawberry release debrief - marketing

2009-06-29 Thread Sean DALY
I don't mind rescheduling the marketing meeting if that is helpful. I'd like the two of you present to discuss debrief and next PR step. We're fine for GCompris and Activities portal - we had decided to lump them all in together in the Strawberry press release as mentions not as featured releases.

[Marketing] Competitive Landscape: Microsoft press release for NECC

2009-06-29 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/jun09/06-28NECC2009PR.mspx Messages: * buy Windows 7, runs on the hardware you have * XP mode will save you, just make sure you buy the more expensive SKU; buy Vista now you can upgrade * Smithsonian partnership * freebies for teachers Note use of

Re: [Marketing] SoaS Strawberry release debrief - marketing

2009-06-29 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi, First the bad news. Walter and I will be at the Lilla Fredrick tomorrow at 11am and can't make the marketing meeting. Things went amazingly well with the last press release. I would have been impressed if all 3 had resulted in this. I am also getting worried that we aren't ready to make too

[Marketing] Picked up by Heise (DE), APC (AU), TechConnect (NL), CNBeta (CN), DiggSoft (CN), CNFol (CN), Netties.be (BE), Noticiasdot.com (ES), NDevil (DE), OSNews (PL), USB Core (GB), TuttoNotebook

2009-06-29 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.heise.de/open/Linux-mit-Erdbeergeschmack-Sugar-on-a-Stick-Version-1-0-freigegeben--/news/meldung/141005 http://apcmag.com/Content.aspx?id=4096 http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?id=27482&catid=3 http://www.cnbeta.com/articles/87568.htm http://www.diggsoft.com/news/200906/29-47982

Re: [Marketing] SoaS Strawberry release debrief - marketing

2009-06-29 Thread Sean DALY
Actually, based on the half a dozen teachers (identifying themselves as such) who came by the booth at LinuxTag - three of whom said they came to LinuxTag specifically to talk to us (!) and who have little technical expertise, in one case I booted Strawberry right on her laptop to show her how to d