Re: [Marketing] Linuxtag Berlin 2010

2010-05-25 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > Hi Simon, I'm sorry I didn't respond sooner > > I won't be able to make LinuxTag this year, but I understand Sebastian > will give a talk there. Yup, that's right: http://www.linuxtag.org/2010/en/program/free-conference/wednesday/details.html?ta

[Marketing] Announcing Sugar on a Stick v.3 (Mirabelle)

2010-05-25 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Mirabelles have arrived! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/enil/3892066169/) I am proud to announce the availability of Sugar on a Stick v.3, code-named Mirabelle. More information about Sugar on a Stick, including download and installation details, are available at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas

Re: [Marketing] [SoaS] sunjammer hosted Mirabell; A suggestion.

2010-05-25 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > In this case, I think this is a good candidate for documentation, a > how-to page/PDF for tryers of Mirabelle explaining what ASLO is and > how to use it. And... the issues that may arise with some Activities. The advantage that ASLO has is that

Re: [Marketing] [SoaS] sunjammer hosted Mirabell; A suggestion.

2010-05-25 Thread Sean DALY
In this case, I think this is a good candidate for documentation, a how-to page/PDF for tryers of Mirabelle explaining what ASLO is and how to use it. And... the issues that may arise with some Activities. Sean On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:2

Re: [Marketing] [SoaS] sunjammer hosted Mirabell; A suggestion.

2010-05-25 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: > > > Sebastian ; > > Since we are hosting a second DL site: > > http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-3-mirabelle.iso > > Could you modify a second copy to automatically log in to ASLO on > starting Browse? > > I would think tha

[Marketing] [SoaS] sunjammer hosted Mirabell; A suggestion.

2010-05-25 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Sebastian ; Since we are hosting a second DL site: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-3-mirabelle.iso Could you modify a second copy to automatically log in to ASLO on starting Browse? I would think that this would satisfy some of Sean's objections to Mirabelle, as it would st

Re: [Marketing] Linuxtag Berlin 2010

2010-05-25 Thread Sean DALY
Hi Simon, I'm sorry I didn't respond sooner I won't be able to make LinuxTag this year, but I understand Sebastian will give a talk there. It is possible we will do a press release around that time though, which we could dateline Berlin and hopefully attract visitors to the booth. Thanks Sean

[Marketing] Today's Marketing meeting log is up

2010-05-25 Thread Sean DALY
http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting.log.20100525_1009.html Today's long meeting featured a long discussion about the Sugar on a Stick Mirabelle release and contributor recruitment. Sean ___ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org htt

Re: [Marketing] [SoaS] SoaS 3 (Mirabelle) release 5/25 & publicity/recruitment plans

2010-05-25 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... There are s many things I would like to add to this conversation (from the educator's perspective). But there is another, more important issue I would like to address, recruitment of developers and other talent. I have been watching with fascination the wonderful progress the folks

Re: [Marketing] [SoaS] SoaS Fedora Spin webpage

2010-05-25 Thread Sean DALY
Mel ? On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > By the way, we always talk about the XS School Server in our public > communications for several reasons: > > * We've identified filtering online access as a key concern of > teachers and parents; education buyers and education IT staff n

[Marketing] Sugar on a Stick download pancake button for Mirabelle

2010-05-25 Thread Sean DALY
Mel - It's Rubén Rodríguez Pérez who did the original pancake button and he kindly supplied us with the Strawberry SVG file last December http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/2009-December/000523.html I have edited the file (attached) with Fred Grose's colors. Do you want a PNG? Sean <>_

Re: [Marketing] [SoaS] SoaS main wiki page revision (draft)

2010-05-25 Thread Sean DALY
Thanks Mel for fixing my wiki mess Keep the link to http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick on the old Blueberry page though, since that's the link we communicate, is the top search result on Google, has been bookmarked by everyone, is linked to from the homepage, etc. By contributors porta

Re: [Marketing] [SoaS] SoaS main wiki page revision (draft)

2010-05-25 Thread Mel Chua
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Sean DALY wrote: > Mel - that page looks great Thanks! > I tried to add the "will be superseded" text on the top of the > Blueberry page, but I'm not sure I did the right wiki thing. Actually, I think you reverted the edit. :) But I made a little "note" template

[Marketing] Invitation: Sugar Labs Marketing Meeting @ Tue May 25 4pm - 5pm (marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org)

2010-05-25 Thread Sean Daly
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Re: [Marketing] [SoaS] SoaS main wiki page revision (draft)

2010-05-25 Thread Sean DALY
Mel - that page looks great I tried to add the "will be superseded" text on the top of the Blueberry page, but I'm not sure I did the right wiki thing. Will you be adding back the pancake button? thanks Sean On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Mel Chua wrote: > I made the merge - http://wiki.su

Re: [Marketing] [SoaS] SoaS 3 (Mirabelle) release 5/25 & publicity/recruitment plans

2010-05-25 Thread Sean DALY
Martin - I'm not worried about developers trying Sugar, they can figure it out. I'm worried about teachers doing so. The devil is in the details of course. I agree that the splintered e-book reader Activities situation doesn't help us, and iffy Record too. But these are symptoms of our limited reso

Re: [Marketing] [SoaS] SoaS 3 (Mirabelle) release 5/25 & publicity/recruitment plans

2010-05-25 Thread Sean DALY
Peter, The incoherence I am talking about is marketing, not engineering. We had identified e-book readers as key and promoted SoaS that way. Dropping those six months later is incoherent. Credibility counts. FOSS marketing (in the sense of targeted marketing, not contributor recruitment) has a mo