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 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

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] SoaS 3 (Mirabelle) release 5/25 & publicity/recruitment plans

2010-05-24 Thread Peter Robinson
Sean, On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > Sebastian, > > Our problem is the incoherence between the two previous versions of > SoaS and this one, and the incoherence with our marketing strategy > which is to promote a rich ecosystem of Activities for which Sugar is > the support.

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

2010-05-24 Thread Sean DALY
Sebastian, Our problem is the incoherence between the two previous versions of SoaS and this one, and the incoherence with our marketing strategy which is to promote a rich ecosystem of Activities for which Sugar is the support. We can't talk about new SoaS features or large deployments, so there