Re: [Marketing] [SoaS] Activities and Features for SoaS V4

2010-06-08 Thread Martin Dengler
Hi John, On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 06:33:04PM -0400, John Tierney wrote: > > > We must always remember the Key contributor we are trying to get on > > > board is the Elementary Teacher and Students. > > > > ..."Key contributor" to SoaS? Or to Activity authorship? Please > > don't mix the two up -

Re: [Marketing] [SoaS] Activities and Features for SoaS V4

2010-06-07 Thread Martin Dengler
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 03:14:25PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > Martin, I think you're being hard on John here. I gave him my opinion as to the relevance and specificity of what he was asking other people do for some purpose that was quite vague. Are we not allowed to say "that's not a good idea, he

Re: [Marketing] [SoaS] PDF of proposed new contents of SugarCreationKit DVD - (A rearrangement of content +)

2010-06-06 Thread Martin Dengler
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 04:21:35PM -0400, John Tierney wrote: > [13 PDFs generated from some non-PDFs] > > *Do these PDF's go into GIT so we can update and revise as > *things go along?? Is this Possible??* PDFs shouldn't go into git unless you can't track their content some other way.

Re: [Marketing] [SoaS] Activities and Features for SoaS V4

2010-06-06 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 01:11:32PM -0400, John Tierney wrote: > I am trying to figure out upcoming schedule for SoaS V4. From my reading > of Fedora 14 release schedule which from my new understanding applies > directly to the next Sugar on a Stick release the two upcoming dates that > are super im

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

2010-05-24 Thread Martin Dengler
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 08:56:27PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > Our problem is the incoherence between the two previous versions of > SoaS and this one "Versions" between which there is "incoherence"? You're talking software to developers, and your marketing is showing. > and the incoherence with o

Re: [Marketing] [SoaS] updating the draft decision panel report

2009-11-01 Thread Martin Dengler
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 10:34:49AM +0100, Sean DALY wrote: > Again, this is a marketing discussion and in my view outside the scope > of the question. I don't mind what we call it but it's darn pertinent to the question: we cannot in good faith declare it best for the community to avoid something

Re: [Marketing] [SoaS] Tutorial

2009-10-24 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 09:48:07PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > Martin, was that pancake button yours? Great work. I mean it - never > underestimate the power of an inviting pancake button ;-) I made the page into one with a pancake button. Rubén Rodríguez Pérez - of Trisquel fame - kindly supplied

Re: [Marketing] [SoaS] Tutorial

2009-10-22 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 06:39:57PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > Well, those are Windows instructions, not sure you'd want that on the > Linux page :-) The same program exists on Linux, though yeah it's not called liveusb-creator.exe :). > Unfortunately the liveUSB creator executable is buggy (which

Re: [Marketing] [SoaS] Tutorial

2009-10-22 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:19:17PM +, Carlo Falciola wrote: > http://www.pendrivelinux.com/install-sugar-on-a-stick-to-a-flash-drive/ > It' an alternative tutorial for SOAS stick creation.. > Have you already seen this? Wow, does that actually work? How did we get "Sugar on a Stick (Strawb

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

2009-09-14 Thread Martin Dengler
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:17:42AM -0400, Bill Bogstad wrote: > [non-release-naming issue] Please take this to the mailing list to which it belongs: sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org. > Bill Bogstad Martin pgp6DdY8ov3zA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

2009-09-14 Thread Martin Dengler
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 04:27:29PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > As long as no one (including developers) is confused that "SoaS > release 1( Strawberry)" alias "SoaS-2" is running Sugar v0.84 and > Fedora 11. We've agreed the Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Name to be "Blueberry", and nobody's objected t

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

2009-09-13 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 08:20:43PM -0400, Bill Bogstad wrote: > I've been watching this thread since it began and understand that from > a marketing perspective numbers are 'ugly'. Numbers are for the developers, ice cream flavours are for the press / GUI users, as I understand it. > On the other

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

2009-09-13 Thread Martin Dengler
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:18:55PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > Bill - I completely agree our numbering systems are byzantine and > difficult to grasp... there is the Sugar version number, the Fedora > version number, the OLPC-OS version number and the XO build number. The numbering is for developers

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

2009-09-11 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 05:30:30PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > re marketing course: in fact I have accepted Mel's invitation to do a > classroom for Fedora. Congratulations. > re logos: Strawberry=6, Blueberry=4, and 5 we'll use some other time Very clear - thanks. > [Have we agreed on Blueberry

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

2009-09-10 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:41:31AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > I'm sorry Martin, I thought I was answering You were but there's a lot of extra information that's sometimes hard to parse - ultimately someone needs to put an image file in a directory...so I was hoping that you would just say "yes" or

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:56:25PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Martin Dengler > wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:57:00PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > >> In fact Martin if I remember correctly we had already discussed this > >> on-

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:57:00PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > In fact Martin if I remember correctly we had already discussed this > on-list... I will try to find the thread. Please let me know. I did google for 'sugar "ice cream" soas' before I said I couldn't find anything besides the IRC meetin

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:10:40PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > Hi Martin > > The idea is ice cream flavors Ok. I hadn't picked up on this, despite being in the meeting when it was mentioned[1]. I suspect others may not have, either. > and Blueberry works since I had rollup banners and posters ma

[Marketing] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Dengler
Hi, This is to solicit feedback on the naming and colouring of the Sugar on a Stick v2 release scheduled for 2009-11-24[1]: 1) Release name: Blueberry 2) Release logo colours: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Logo_white_04.png Please "reply all" with any feedback. If you want to get involved

[Marketing] I've fallen, and I can't get up (was: Re: [Sugar-devel] press release opportunity...)

2009-07-30 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:43:50AM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: > As I noted in the wiki page about this: > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/TODO#Sticks_are_dieing_a_lot_-_Make_sticks_more_robust > 2GB Sticks are $0.60 more then 1GB sticks. > > If > it improves reliability its definit

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] The next Step: v2 Roadmap

2009-07-06 Thread Martin Dengler
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 09:03:24AM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > so here it is, the Sugar on a Stick v2 Roadmap: > > > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap#Roadmap > > > > Feedback is appreciated

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] The next Step: v2 Roadmap

2009-07-05 Thread Martin Dengler
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 12:51:22AM +0200, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Hi everybody, > > so here it is, the Sugar on a Stick v2 Roadmap: > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap#Roadmap > > Feedback is appreciated, and as we've just entered brainstorming phase, > please go ahead