Re: [Marketing] Press release credit available

2019-12-13 Thread Sean DALY
Is anyone still doing marketing or PR for SL? On Wednesday, December 4, 2019, Sean DALY wrote: > Hi, > > Unless I missed something, I didn't see any followup on this > > My credits expire at the end of the year, which really means in the next > couple of weeks bec

Re: [Marketing] Press release credit available

2019-12-04 Thread Sean DALY
er will be required for the designated press contact Sean On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 3:50 PM Sean DALY wrote: > anytime is fine > > if you are able to organize a shared document like googledocs we and > others could collaborate on it > > Limit is 600 or 700 words, I need to chec

Re: [Marketing] Press release credit available

2019-06-28 Thread Sean DALY
rst draft? > > Cordially, > Vipul Gupta > Mixster <https://mixstersite.wordpress.com/> | Github > <https://github.com/vipulgupta2048> > > > On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 10:05 PM Sean DALY wrote: > >> Vipul – it would be best to find a topical subject, "news&

Re: [Marketing] Press release credit available

2019-06-28 Thread Sean DALY
Do let me know which of these topics we can brainstorm on. Some topics > might be overlapping, I just a made a rough list from the top of my mind. > > Cordially, > Vipul Gupta > Mixster <https://mixstersite.wordpress.com/> | Github > <https://github.com/vipulgupta2048> >

Re: [Marketing] Press release credit available

2019-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
In principle the 29th of June, but I am asking for an extension Sean On Monday, June 24, 2019, Alex Perez wrote: > Sean, > > > > Sean DALY wrote on 6/24/19 2:16 PM: > >> Hi SL marketing team, >> >> My company has an unused press release credit which will

[Marketing] Press release credit available

2019-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
Hi SL marketing team, My company has an unused press release credit which will expire soon and which I could use for Sugar Labs. Distribution is PR Newswire in English for US market. If you have a topical message to get out (GSoC? latest Sugar version? a deployment?), or even just an “alive & kick

Re: [Marketing] I'm not the PR contact anymore (for Sugar Labs)

2018-07-05 Thread Sean DALY
Hi Alex, The pr@sl.o went to Walter and me. I have no idea how to change it, sorry. Sean On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 5:46 PM, Alex Perez wrote: > Sean, > >> Hi Dave, >> >> I just saw I am still listed [1] as the SL PR contact, with the dead phone >> number. >> > I have removed your name from the PR

[Marketing] I'm not the PR contact anymore

2018-03-02 Thread Sean DALY
Hi Dave, I just saw I am still listed [1] as the SL PR contact, with the dead phone number. Could you please update that page. You may also want to consider publishing some PR milestones now and then, with the most recent communiqué dating from 2014 any journalist might assume the project is fal

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] [SLOB] Motion regarding xo-computer icon

2017-09-15 Thread Sean DALY
So your idea is: no trademarks at all? Do you think Sugar Labs should give up its trademark? Is your goal to undermine Sugar Labs and/or OLPC? Sean On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Sebastian Silva wrote: > On 15/09/17 10:59, Sean DALY wrote: > > The copyrights are licensed unde

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] [SLOB] Motion regarding xo-computer icon

2017-09-15 Thread Sean DALY
on and, if it passes, >>>> the results be reported to Tony by Adam, our SFC liaison. Of course, if the >>>> motion does not pass, we will need to continue the discussion. >>>> >>>> I second the motion. >>>> >>>> >>>>

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] xo-computer icon

2017-09-14 Thread Sean DALY
be found here: https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/foss-primer.html#x1-660005.4.2 Sean. Le jeu. 14 sept. 2017 à 09:02, Sebastian Silva a écrit : > On 14/09/17 08:00, Sean DALY wrote: > > Sebastian — these principles apply to copyright, not trademarks, > > patents, or trade secrets.

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] xo-computer icon

2017-09-14 Thread Sean DALY
Sebastian — these principles apply to copyright, not trademarks, patents, or trade secrets. Sean Le jeu. 14 sept. 2017 à 08:50, Sebastian Silva a écrit : > > > On 14/09/17 07:37, Sean DALY wrote: > > Laura, I am not a lawyer, but the inclusion of a trademarked logo does not

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] xo-computer icon

2017-09-14 Thread Sean DALY
Laura, I am not a lawyer, but the inclusion of a trademarked logo does not make software nonfree. Software is copyrighted after all; it's the license that brings freedom to it. In the absence of a formal trademark agreement, lawyers look at the way a trademark is used, and what the trademark owner

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] logo dicussion

2017-09-13 Thread Sean DALY
wish to design marketing materials to resemble the Sugar interface. Sean [1] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Booth_Banners On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Laura Vargas wrote: > > 2017-09-13 16:02 GMT-05:00 Sean DALY : > >> In the past, OLPC was amenable to the use of the xo

[Marketing] Press page visuals broken links 404s

2016-06-25 Thread Sean DALY
https://www.sugarlabs.org/2014/01/22/Sugar-Labs(R)-Educational-Nonprofit-Celebrates-Two-Google-Code-In-Grand-Prize-Winners/ It seems some links to visuals associated with press releases didn't survive the site change. AFAICT the broken links just have embedded newlines, should be OK if newlines re

Re: [Marketing] [SLOBS] [IAEP] Fwd: Google for Nonprofits Affiliation Request Sent

2016-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
al of our PR communiqués were datelined Cambridge. If you decide to keep it going and need my assistance, I'm around. Sean. On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 24 June 2016 at 05:21, Sean DALY wrote: > >> Dropping IAEP from a marketing discuss

[Marketing] Swag revival

2016-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
Here's a fairly simple project we tried to get off the ground a couple of times and didn't: branded merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, messenger bags, &c.). The new marketing team may wish to pick this up. http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2009-May/001108.html This old list of print-on-deman

[Marketing] 2010 MarketLab study SL mission statement

2016-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
This study (on Marketing Team homepage) had flaws, but the methodology of interviewing 85 community members was sound. Here's a reminder of their suggested mission statement: Sugar Labs is an educational nonprofit dedicated to enhancing the learning experience of children worldwide through the us

[Marketing] eReleases categories

2016-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
FYI, in the past, we have used the following target categories for PR, in hit-parade order (always the first three, a fourth or fifth cat from the rest dependning on the content): Education High Tech - Software High Tech - Public Sector/Government Hispanic Wire Children & Youth Nonprofit Industry

Re: [Marketing] [SLOBS] [IAEP] Motion: to undertake a fund raising drive.

2016-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
had been to disrupt the MS/Intel sales force talking points. The marketing team which was numerous at the time all knew the strategy. Sean. On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Sean DALY wrote: > Hi Dave, sorry whatever is not in the Marketing mail archive will be in > the Marketing IRC lo

Re: [Marketing] [SLOBS] [IAEP] Fwd: Google for Nonprofits Affiliation Request Sent

2016-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
gt; > On 23 June 2016 at 07:21, Sean DALY wrote: > > OK Dave, you're the new Marketing Coordinator! > > The wiki page https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team had: > > 1 (617) 500-9610 > > [[Marketing Team/Phone]] is the new number that journalists can call for

Re: [Marketing] Fw: Marketing Digest, Vol 86, Issue 28

2016-06-23 Thread Sean DALY
pecific > than "Re: Contents of Marketing digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: [SLOBS] [IAEP] Fwd: Google for NonprofitsAffiliation > Request Sent (Sean DALY) > 2. Re: The End of Sugar (thought exercise) (Walter Bender) > 3. Re: [SL

Re: [Marketing] [SLOBS] [IAEP] Fwd: Google for Nonprofits Affiliation Request Sent

2016-06-23 Thread Sean DALY
Dave - I did already, see the threads Sean On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi Sean > > Sincerel I'm sorry to hear that. > > Please do share with us the old marketing strategy, I am keen to see it :) > > Cheers > Dave > On Jun 23,

Re: [Marketing] [SLOBS] [IAEP] Fwd: Google for Nonprofits Affiliation Request Sent

2016-06-23 Thread Sean DALY
AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi Sean > > On 22 June 2016 at 15:37, Sean DALY wrote: > > > > We agree on using Google AdWords, but no work has been done on > communication > > strategy, and although I am thrilled there is interest in marketing, I am > > also ver

Re: [Marketing] [SLOBS] [IAEP] Fwd: Google for Nonprofits Affiliation Request Sent

2016-06-22 Thread Sean DALY
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 9:07 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > It is a matter for the marketing team, which seems to have reached > consensus. We agree on using Google AdWords, but no work has been done on communication strategy, and although I am thrilled there is interest in marketing, I am also ve

[Marketing] Fwd: [IAEP] 172 XO-1s for $24 each (+ freight) $4, 000 total

2016-06-16 Thread Sean DALY
- Forwarded message -- From: Dave Crossland Date: Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:48 PM Subject: Re: [IAEP] 172 XO-1s for $24 each (+ freight) $4,000 total To: Sean DALY , iaep Cc: Sugar Labs Marketing On 14 June 2016 at 12:09, Sean DALY wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 4:5

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] 172 XO-1s for $24 each (+ freight) $4, 000 total

2016-06-14 Thread Sean DALY
be substantial. However more often than not a diluted brand loses its power and is considered has-been, irrelevant or worthless. Sean. On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > On 14 June 2016 at 10:14, Sean DALY wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Dave Crossla

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] 172 XO-1s for $24 each (+ freight) $4, 000 total

2016-06-14 Thread Sean DALY
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > A brand that is not being diluted is stale, rigid, dying. I completely disagree, but it doesn't matter. Sean. ___ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] 172 XO-1s for $24 each (+ freight) $4, 000 total

2016-06-14 Thread Sean DALY
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > That color combination has been very widely copied, even today. > > I think the amount of copying ought to be seen as a metrics of success > for a brand. > Sure, except it dilutes the brand. > > > > which is why I invested in the SL br

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] 172 XO-1s for $24 each (+ freight) $4, 000 total

2016-06-14 Thread Sean DALY
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:21 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > The green case is probably the most important thing, I think, because > of that brand equity > The green and white case (perhaps with a "crank handle") is the only brand equity OLPC (and Sugar Labs) have. That color combination has been v

Re: [Marketing] Suggestions

2016-06-11 Thread Sean DALY
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 8:05 PM, samson goddy wrote: > And Sean, i really want to make this madatory to all members in SL. Since > you are in-charge of marketing how can i get started? Samson - I'm afraid there's no mandatory anything :-) nearly all of us are unpaid volunteers... I'm nobody's

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] Go Social via Social Media

2016-06-09 Thread Sean DALY
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Ifeanyi Peter wrote: > Maybe anytime we have suggestions that concerns Marketing, we would just > forward it to the Marketing Dept. for review. How to I join the marketing > team as well, I have some suggestions. Thanks Ifeanyi To join the Marketing team, just

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] Go Social via Social Media (Proposal/Motion)

2016-06-09 Thread Sean DALY
I'm sorry, I don't see how SL can support a new paid position. My suggestion would be to evaluate how the paid Translation Manager position works out. I'm glad Samson you are eager to work on social media (as I've said), however I don't understand your marketing objectives. Put another way, just w

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Smart way to get $$ for posting videos on youtube

2016-06-03 Thread Sean DALY
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 6:27 PM, samson goddy wrote: > should we use the adventage of the monetizing My point of view is that we "monetize" through CTAs and fundraising, rather than wait 27 years to get the resources we need through random ads. Sean. ___

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Smart way to get $$ for posting videos on youtube

2016-06-03 Thread Sean DALY
Yes Samson, the SFC fulfills these criteria. I am sure we would qualify. But as Adam says, let's sort out what we want to do first before going to the SFC. First step is a donor link which lands on their page with SL as prefilled choice. I suggest we try to go for Google Ad Grants, but this requir

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Smart way to get $$ for posting videos on youtube

2016-06-03 Thread Sean DALY
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > How about "turtle in a box" videos? That would be aligned with our > mission/vision :) Indeed! if there is any way to generate zillions of views it's with turtles ;-) ___ Marketing mailing list M

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Smart way to get $$ for posting videos on youtube

2016-06-03 Thread Sean DALY
Samson - what about Google's program for nonprofits? https://www.google.com/grants/ Sean On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:34 PM, samson goddy wrote: > > okay i am going to create an open doc in google then explain further about > the video ads. The youtube ads is not as you think, that's why me and

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Smart way to get $$ for posting videos on youtube

2016-06-03 Thread Sean DALY
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > I am eager to see real data on this YouTube advertiser RPM (revenue per thousand views), called eCPM by YouTube ("effective cost per thousand"), commonly varies from 50 US cents to $5 (before Google's Adsense 45% cut). I say commonly, bec

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Smart way to get $$ for posting videos on youtube

2016-06-03 Thread Sean DALY
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > I'm not saying if $X or $Y is greater; I am saying that we don't know > which is greater, and Samson will learn a lot by trying to maximize > the revenue of both. > In that case, I'm saying random ads will generate peanuts, while well-thou

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Smart way to get $$ for posting videos on youtube

2016-06-03 Thread Sean DALY
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 7:03 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Your assertion that SL would see more revenue from CTA compared to ads. How can I make up data for a fundraising drive which hasn't happened yet? Sean ___ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Smart way to get $$ for posting videos on youtube

2016-06-02 Thread Sean DALY
On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > What data do you have to back up this assertion? :) Um, which assertion? ___ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Smart way to get $$ for posting videos on youtube

2016-06-02 Thread Sean DALY
I myself don't see an upside with allowing random ads to be associated with Sugar Labs, for the tiny amount of income we might receive. If indeed our US nonprofit status through SFC would allow gains from advertising. Far better to do Calls to Action ("CTA" in their jargon) and Annotations, request

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] Motion: Solicit Membership Donations + Public Statements

2016-05-24 Thread Sean DALY
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 7:06 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > $600 is plenty serious :) So, for $600 anyone can contribute random code which will be used ___ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketin

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] Motion: Solicit Membership Donations + Public Statements

2016-05-23 Thread Sean DALY
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Using gitorious we are running this experiment for $0, which is why I'm > keen to get the move to github over with :) Let's be as serious about marketing as we are about coding. Sean ___ Market

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] Motion: Solicit Membership Donations + Public Statements

2016-05-23 Thread Sean DALY
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Offering to suggest a codename is hardly "handing over marketing." Let's > experiment! :) Let's experiment with random code to be inserted anywhere, for only $600! :) ___ Marketing mailing list

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] Motion: Solicit Membership Donations + Public Statements

2016-05-23 Thread Sean DALY
Handing over marketing to anyone with a deep pocket is incomprehensible to me, I'd much rather just see "gold sponsor status" or something similar. Do people really need the recognition? I'm also confused about the public statement bit - don't we already have member pages? Important contributions

Re: [Marketing] Example marketing plans

2016-05-02 Thread Sean DALY
Hi Dave, these are indeed useful for non-marketers to get a feel for how a competitive landscape study is presented, or how a marketing plan is built. There are differences with SL, in particular there are no funds for market studies (or actual marketing for that matter). I believe I did a SWOT

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-21 Thread Sean DALY
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > The site is hosted in github now [1], so we can accept pull requests (or > comments/issues) for changes. Could you please let us know what typos you > found? > > [1] https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs > Ah hi Walter what's the best

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-21 Thread Sean DALY
... who can fix those? I am relieved to see that the press page survived at its permalink. Sean On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi > > On 21 April 2016 at 09:08, Sean DALY wrote: > >> I didn't realize the existing site had been scrapped already. >

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-21 Thread Sean DALY
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Juan Carlos Murillo wrote: > Also, if there is a range of different colors for the logo, then a good > idea might be to use the same logo color for the websites that have more > related content between them (i.e. homepage and activities). I didn't realize the ex

[Marketing] Fwd: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-19 Thread Sean DALY
Developer discussion about SL brand identity. Hopefully the MIT Sloan conclusions will be taken into account Sean -- Forwarded message -- From: Dave Crossland Date: Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:37 AM Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign To: Juan Carlos Murillo Cc:

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] The future of Sugar on XO-1s

2016-04-12 Thread Sean DALY
pose the minimum build order is $2M. While those 1 laptops > are in inventory, they tie up the funds. When all of the laptops have been > paid for and deployed, a new order can be placed. Better would be to order > 20,000 units at $4M. Then when 10,000 have been deployed and paid

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] Action needed on two issues

2016-04-11 Thread Sean DALY
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:07 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Are all the PRs in 2013/14/15/16 listed on that page? > Yes indeed. We considered doing one for the TripAdvisor grant, but decided it was better to wait for results. There has been lessening press interest in SL, parallel to OLPC, but th

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] Seeking insights into Oversight_Board/Decisions

2016-04-11 Thread Sean DALY
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Given the trademark fee was recently paid to renew the trademarks, I guess > the merits were accepted For an organization with the possibility of widespread recognition, owning your trademark is a vital step. It could be compared to owni

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Sugar on Facebook app(Sugarizer)(sugar activities))

2016-04-08 Thread Sean DALY
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] Sugar on Facebook > app(Sugarizer)(sugar activities)) > > Interesting thread and timely. I'm headed to SF (from DC) to attend the > Facebook Developer's Conference. There is a pre-conference workshop on > Monday for NGOs. I'll keep

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on Facebook app(Sugarizer)(sugar activities))

2016-04-08 Thread Sean DALY
On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Lionel Laské wrote: > In my point of view Facebook is not a platform. But it's probably possible > to run Sugarizer (or a part of it) into the Facebook context. > > BTW I'm agree with Sean, it has sense only if we've got a marketing plan > to be there. > > The fir

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on Facebook app(Sugarizer)(sugar activities))

2016-04-07 Thread Sean DALY
omputer-based learning tool? > * a cool guy interested in fun games? > > > Well it depends on how I feel > About facebook: > Sometimes "a cool guy interested in fun games". > > But "I used to" submit patches for sugar core. > I was a gci winner twice with

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on Facebook app(Sugarizer)(sugar activities))

2016-04-07 Thread Sean DALY
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 6:10 PM, samson goddy wrote: > I think that doing ads on facebook or twitter will be great. Samson... at the risk of repeating myself... who are the ads geared to? What do the ads say? Is the objective to boost random traffic on facebook, or traffic more likely to adopt

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on Facebook app(Sugarizer)(sugar activities))

2016-04-07 Thread Sean DALY
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 5:13 PM, samson goddy wrote: > a proposal of targeting more users via the social media (Facebook and > twitter). And i will submit it this week or next so we will know that to do. Great! So... what is our target or targets? What is our objective or objectives? What is ou

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on Facebook app(Sugarizer)(sugar activities))

2016-04-07 Thread Sean DALY
Hi Ignacio are you ...? * a donor interested in supporting a project to support financially? * a developer interested in a project to volunteer with? * a teacher interested in a classroom computer-based learning tool? * a parent interested in a home setting computer-based learning tool? * a cool

Re: [Marketing] facebook page

2016-04-07 Thread Sean DALY
Thanks for this Samson note that the format is xlsx, not xls, I had to rename the extension to load it into OpenOffice I'm aware that the numbers are very low. Once SL chooses its vision and roadmap, we can develop a marketing strategy and do stuff. thanks Sean On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 5:19 PM,

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on Facebook app(Sugarizer)(sugar activities))

2016-04-07 Thread Sean DALY
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > One of the ideas of Sugar is to raise awareness about the software freedom > movement, and as such, providing the full experience within the facebook > police-state playpark is an own-goal. We should reach people where they are > in the play

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] The future of Sugar on XO-1s

2016-04-06 Thread Sean DALY
On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > How many kids is Sugar targetting? > > Low millions? Or billions? > A few years ago, I estimated at around 10 million the number of teachers in classrooms with younger children, and I suggested we target them. Any teacher-friendly, ultrasi

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] FW: Commenting on Treasurer Motions Enabled!

2016-04-06 Thread Sean DALY
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:19 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > I agree that it would be awesome if someone holding the Treasurer office > was also actively fund raising for the project! > Fundraising requires a clear vision & roadmap - positioning, technical - and the associated marketing materials (

Re: [Marketing] (no subject)

2016-03-25 Thread Sean DALY
Sean On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 25 March 2016 at 08:26, Sean DALY wrote: > >> I pushed to have a common navbar on all our sites some years ago, at the >> time developers didn't want to help code & deploy that. I can refer yo

Re: [Marketing] (no subject)

2016-03-25 Thread Sean DALY
runs the existing web site infrastructure and who are the stakeholders > that authorise changes to prominent pages? > > > On 25 March 2016 at 04:46, Sean DALY wrote: > >> Greetings Juan Carlos, >> >> I think it's clear that users of the several Sugar Labs websites w

Re: [Marketing] (no subject)

2016-03-25 Thread Sean DALY
Greetings Juan Carlos, I think it's clear that users of the several Sugar Labs websites would benefit from more integrated navigation. This problem was identified in 2009 when the current main SL site went up, at that time we tried to deploy a standardized menu bar across the SL websites but were

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] DESIGN TEAM Assemblage

2016-02-16 Thread Sean DALY
Hi Ifeanyi Matthew, There hasn't been much marketing activity lately in the absence of a roadmap, funds, and developer resources. In the past the Design team assisted the Marketing team, for example: https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Booth_Banners in SL marketing, the most important v

Re: [Marketing] Twitter password recovering

2015-10-15 Thread Sean DALY
Hi Samson, I never used the twitter account and never knew the password myself Sean On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 8:58 PM, samson goddy wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have been trying to reset the twitter page of the sugarlabs for the past > 1 month now. I discussed with Ignacio about resetting the p

[Marketing] Worldwide OECD Education study published: Students, Computers and Learning

2015-09-15 Thread Sean DALY
This 204-page report is available online here (PDF): http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/deliver/9815021e.pdf?itemId=/content/book/9789264239555-en&mimeType=application/pdf main links page is here: http://www.oecd.org/education/students-computers-and-learning-9789264239555-en.htm a 63-slide briefing (po

Re: [Marketing] Collaboration

2015-07-01 Thread Sean DALY
in a couple of days ok On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Sean, > Could you reply? > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > >> Hi Samson, this is a copy/pasted form letter, the tipoff is they mention >> "company" whi

Re: [Marketing] Collaboration

2015-07-01 Thread Sean DALY
Hi Samson, this is a copy/pasted form letter, the tipoff is they mention "company" which means they did not bother spending three clicks to find out about Sugar Labs. If their event is legit, we can always ask them if they will assist a nonprofit like us in attending, with travel, room & board :-)

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-20 Thread Sean DALY
Thanks Peter, I was watching that too. If I understand correctly switching/changing the sections or adding an Activity is beyond tweaks? while text changes are tweaks. I'm quite happy with it, even though there are lots of changes we suggested which aren't in. I feel the only tweak still to make

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-19 Thread Sean DALY
Peter - here is Iain's document: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/attachments/20150519/bdaf00ca/attachment.html Sean On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > Gonzalo - Iain had already consolidated all changes but Peter doesn't want > to deal with a t

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-19 Thread Sean DALY
Gonzalo - Iain had already consolidated all changes but Peter doesn't want to deal with a text file. Sean On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Iain, Sean, Sam, > > _Please_consolidate_the_changes_before_send_to_Peter_. > > Peter, > when need this be finished? > > Gonzalo > >

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-19 Thread Sean DALY
ltimedia as it stands should be deleted. > > Regards, > > Iain > > > On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 09:29 +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > > thanks Iain looks good > > > > some typos: > > Wwork -> Work > > > > FotoToon -> OK is singular not plural &g

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-18 Thread Sean DALY
f. "office desktop") which probably came in from copy/pasted text should either be replacd with simple double parentheses (" ") or the HTML entities “ and ” thanks Sean On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Iain Brown Douglas < i...@browndouglas.plus.com> wrote: > On

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-17 Thread Sean DALY
me up > with the final edits so I can submit them early next week as a single > final edit. > > Peter > > > > On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Sean DALY wrote: > > Peter - are the intro edits I sent going in? > > thanks > > Sean > > > > > &

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-16 Thread Sean DALY
Peter - are the intro edits I sent going in? thanks Sean On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > It's already in process > > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Sam P. wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > I think Walter send out a good copy [1] with headers - maybe we could use > > those

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] f22-spins page is being written and needs suggestions

2015-05-13 Thread Sean DALY
en the specific advantages of the Soas spin. many thanks Sean On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > See the post I just sent to the list less than a hour ago :-) > > Thanks Sean, > > Peter > > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > >

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] f22-spins page is being written and needs suggestions

2015-05-13 Thread Sean DALY
Hi Tom, Gonzalo had mentioned this, I have a rewrite of the introduction in the works and Sam's Activity texts are good. The main issue is explaining that SOAS Desktop is not a desktop (!) Peter is coordinating on the Fedora side. Sean On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Thomas Gilliard wrote: >

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-08 Thread Sean DALY
Peter - I can refresh the intro text for them, if you have the list of included Activities handy. As I remember those are a subset of Activities packaged for Fedora? Sean On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Fedora Design Team is working in the new Fedora Spins site. > > Sug

[Marketing] Los Angeles ditching Apple/Pearson iPad program

2015-04-17 Thread Sean DALY
A large-scale ($1.3 billion budget for iPads, pearson software, wifi infrastructure, target 650K students) education ICT project started in 2013 and meant to eliminate the digital divide which has gone awry. The superintendent resigned and is under FBI and SEC investigation for corrupt bidding proc

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] New try on a better sugarlabs site

2015-04-17 Thread Sean DALY
Dan - two years ago we arrived at 3 million by estimating 2.6 million XO laptops delivered, Sugar on Intel Classmates in Argentina (between 50K and 100K of the approximately 1.5 million locally assembled from 2011 - the others had been running Windows and may have been reconditioned to GNU/Linux),

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-03-18 Thread Sean DALY
cc'ing the Marketing list - the one everyone forgets as soon as they discuss marketing. The MarketLab study we worked on back then confirmed what we already knew - that Sugar's websites did not accompany teachers interested in Sugar, and that Sugar absolutely needed a simple installer. They also a

[Marketing] BBC launches flagship UK-wide initiative to inspire a new generation with digital technology

2015-03-12 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/makeitdigital/micro-bit article, with video: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31834927 "The Micro Bit will be a small, wearable device with an LED display that children can programme in a number of ways. It will be a standalone, entry-level coding dev

Re: [Marketing] Twitter problem

2015-03-04 Thread Sean DALY
Hi Samson, I didn't know or forgot that SL had a twitter account. Sorry, I have no other information. What kind of tweets would you like to send? Sean On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:43 AM, samson goddy wrote: > Hello, > > I have been trying to find out about the Twitter password, I found out > th

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] SugarLabs.org new website - looking for opinions/ideas!

2015-03-01 Thread Sean DALY
Hi Tymon, I think it's great you have stepped up to rework the sl.o website. Christian who designed the original pages had worked on a new framework a while back, but we got bogged down trying to find usable (both attractive and legal) visuals of kids using Sugar. I have a typographical suggesti

[Marketing] IDB principal evaluation economist claims no OLPC impact on education in Uruguay

2014-09-30 Thread Sean DALY
http://blogs.iadb.org/desarrolloefectivo_en/2014/09/19/laptops-children-darth-vader/ ___ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing

[Marketing] Michael Kleiman documentary film "WEB" about OLPC now available online

2014-09-26 Thread Sean DALY
on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Instant Video. article in The Next Web, with extended scenes not in the cinema release http://thenextweb.com/media/2014/09/26/web-personal-documentary-one-laptop-per-child-spread-internet/ Sean. ___ Marketing mailing list

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] Keepod

2014-05-10 Thread Sean DALY
Yes, saw that too. They should have read their archives: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8117064.stm Sean. On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 5:12 PM, John Watlington wrote: > > Someone needs to write this reporter and explain that > system on a stick isn't a new concept... > > http://www.bbc.com

Re: [Marketing] Sugar Meeting

2014-05-04 Thread Sean DALY
at, May 3, 2014 at 9:21 PM, samson goddy wrote: > Hello Team > i really want to thank you guys for the courage to help Sugarlabs FB page > with me, i want to say a big thanks to you. And i also want to remind you > that we are gonna be having meeting on Sunday. > so mine Time zon

[Marketing] Social media: Global Web Index Jan. 2014 figures commented by Heidi Cohen

2014-04-29 Thread Sean DALY
http://heidicohen.com/global-social-media-trends/ Some key findings: * Facebook still world leader, but down 3%, and losing in teen (16-24) demographic. With the increased fragmentation of social media, has it peaked? * Video is a key activity, see YouTube stats * Mobile gaining ground and is n

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Fwd: admin of sugarlabs fb page

2014-04-26 Thread Sean DALY
@NachoDeTodos <https://twitter.com/NachoDeTodos> > +598 91 686 835 > nachoe...@gmail.com > > > 2014-04-25 11:03 GMT-03:00 Sean DALY : > > Puneet, Samson, Ignacio > > I'm pleased you all want to contribute to communication & marketing > > i invite you to join

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Fwd: admin of sugarlabs fb page

2014-04-25 Thread Sean DALY
know the community better and may be >> become interested and volunteer in :) >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Sean DALY wrote: >> >>> Puneet - what kind of messages do you have in mind? >>> >>> we've wanted someone to be on th

Re: [Marketing] Fwd: [Sugar-devel] admin of sugarlabs fb page

2014-04-25 Thread Sean DALY
I actually can be switched down to moderator until such time as I get > the energy to do more. > > OK, I've switched you to Moderator. Wishing you a speedy recovery and > energy boost! > > > Like it or not, Facebook is a massive global platform and we should > welcome some

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Fwd: admin of sugarlabs fb page

2014-04-24 Thread Sean DALY
; Mike >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Apr 24, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Sean DALY wrote: >> >> a worthy question >> >> -- Forwarded message -- >> From: Puneet Kaur >> Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 6:41 PM >&

[Marketing] Fwd: [Sugar-devel] admin of sugarlabs fb page

2014-04-24 Thread Sean DALY
a worthy question -- Forwarded message -- From: Puneet Kaur Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 6:41 PM Subject: [Sugar-devel] admin of sugarlabs fb page To: Sugar Devel Anyone here has an idea who is the admin of this page - https://www.facebook.com/pages/SugarLabs/187845102582 ?

[Marketing] opensource.com article with ancient screenshot of Sugar

2014-01-22 Thread Sean DALY
http://opensource.com/education/14/1/teaching-kids-linux ___ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing

[Marketing] SoaS review article

2014-01-22 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/14/linux/free-linux-os-learning-sugar-stick.html ___ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing

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