You've all had an interesting discussion. I'll add my points now; in
the form of questions and answers.
Q: are there funds available for marketing?
A: in motion 2019-01 on 4th January, the Oversight Board preserved the
GSoC 2018 mentor stipends for marketing,
Q: are there any other funds available for marketing?
A: yes, the Oversight Board could spend up to about $90k, but such a
spend would have to have compelling justification. Swag isn't
compelling.
Q: have funds been spent on marketing?
A: yes, the Oversight Board agreed to spend money on travel for two
members to PyCon 2019.
Q: how will the rest of the funds be spent?
A: apart from reserving funds for marketing expenses relating to
SCaLE, and not yet applied for, the Oversight Board has made no other
decision.
However, the board has received some marketing plans, has asked for
changes, and will hear any proposals.
Q: will a proposal or marketing plan have greater merit if it comes
from a team who call themselves marketing?
A: no, because;
- the Oversight Board has not formed a marketing team,
- our original marketing team, who had people qualified in marketing,
left long ago,
- the Oversight Board consist of developers or other subject matter
experts, can see a claim for legitimacy a mile off, and discount it
easily,
Q: but isn't there's a marketing team on the Wiki?
A: it is out of date.
Q: but aren't there a whole lot of teams on the Wiki?
A: it is out of date. Please work together with all of Sugar Labs,
don't look for a team.
Q: does the Software Freedom Conservancy control the funds?
A: to a limited extent. The Conservancy will act on decisions by the
Oversight Board provided those decisions are legal and follow
Conservancy policies, so any marketing also has to follow those
policies.
Comment;
Gathering more developers who are active is our key to survival as a
community. If our count of active developers reaches zero, there will
be a short delay and then something in the environment will change and
Sugar, Sugarizer or Music Blocks won't be usable. That is one of
reasons why we are engaged with Google Summer of Code and Google
Season of Docs.
We have some people who are interested in helping but have yet to
learn the skills to contribute actively. I'd like to see that change.
Get started with programming, write new Sugar activities, fix
activities, and write documentation.
Q: what will happen if I do nothing except talk?
A: nothing. ;-)
On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 12:58:14AM +0530, Sumit Srivastava wrote:
Hi, Vipul, Jaskirat, and all members of SL community!
These days I'm thinking about two things:
1. How to expand the SL developer community?
2. How do we move towards the vision for sugar labs that was discussed a few
weeks ago in an email thread?
As of now, I've some ideas for *1*, but need more inputs from everyone. Shall I
start a new thread for new inputs?
And yes, I'm constantly thinking about how can we make great things happen in
the community. Glad that you noticed.
Regards
Sumit
On Sun, 14 Apr 2019, 12:51 am Jaskirat Singh, <[1]juskirat2...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Thanks Vipul for taking this up, The funds that were granted by Google for
GSOC ( I guess ) remains with the community and it is being controlled by
SFC of which Sugar Labs is a member project.
I see that Sumit initiated about swags, but maybe it might not have been
made to move further due to absence of the budget proposal.
So if anyone of us can try working on proposal for marketing along with a
marketing team that would be great and would become easy for Board to
review and add up their decisions.
On Sun, 14 Apr 2019, 12:39 am Vipul Gupta <[2]vipulgupta2...@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks, Jaskirat, I have also attached an email snippet regarding GSoC
Mentor Stipends on Sumit's request that was reallocated to the
marketing committee for making shirts, and stickers. I am not sure what
is the progress of the same since then or the status? But looking
forward to hearing from any GSoC 2018 mentors as to what happened to
those funds.
Cordially,
Vipul Gupta
[3]Mixster | [4]Github
On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 11:56 PM Jaskirat Singh <[5]
juskirat2...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Vipul,
Yes I would be at Open Source Summit Europe in France, It would be
indeed to interact with communities/people for introducing
sugarlabs and its productivity there.
Thanks
On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, 11:30 am Vipul Gupta <[6]
vipulgupta2...@gmail.com wrote:
Sounds like a plan! Thank you for your support, Jasikrat. I see
you are planning to go for Open Source Summit, would you mind
to be our spokesperson there.
Maybe some opportunity comes from the Linux Foundation as well.
I also wanted to start a discussion on the use of funds
allocated for Sugar Labs's merchandise at the end of Google
Summer of Code using the designs made in Google Code-In.
Cordially,
Vipul Gupta
[7]Mixster | [8]Github
On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 10:46 AM Jaskirat Singh <[9]
juskirat2...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Vipul,
This sounds really good. I really appreciate you both for
representing Sugar labs at PyCon.
Well, I proposed somewhat same thing like Organising Sugar
Summits in various countries, I am still in the middle of
it to draft my proposal for the same. So once its done I
will share here.
And I think this is a good opportunity as well for us to
represent Sugar Labs at such a great platform.
Thanks
On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, 10:32 am Vipul Gupta <[10]
vipulgupta2...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello folks,
At the end of 2018, we started the Outreach works for
Sugar Labs. At first, we thought of sharing several
accomplishments throughout Google Code-In to keep the
people in the loop on various social media platforms,
as well as sharing experiences of Google Summer of Code
students and their projects held in 2018 for a positive
impact.
We thought we can go bigger and with that thought in
mind represent Sugar Labs on larger platforms in front
of communities. I proposed PyCon to be a great choice
for the same. Considering OLPC represented XO laptops
being part of PyCon 2008 (An article by [11]Tony)
Hence, we submitted a proposal for talks about Sugar
Labs in the Education Summit of PyCon Cleveland 2019,
and I am very happy to inform that we have in fact been
selected. It's a great accomplishment for us all.
Samson would be representing our community at PyCon
Cleveland. I, unfortunately, due to my university exams
won't be able to go. As much as I loved drafting the
proposal with Samson and be would like to meet and talk
about Sugar Labs, I am happy that Samson has a chance
to be at PyCon and will do great. We are still raw in
your efforts and have lots to improve. Would love to
have more suggestions on things we should be doing, and
also planning to hold workshops regarding Sugar in many
countries in the near future.
Thanks,
Cordially,
Vipul Gupta
[12]Mixster | [13]Github
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