http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting.log.20090310_1100.html
Countdown to 0.84 launch! 1. Make SL press-contactable: phone number After looking at a number of solutions which will allow us to grow with the same number, I have succeeded in reserving the following Gizmo5 Business number for 12 months: +1.857.254.1100. The idea will be to use this number on press releases and the planned press page. Journalists will call this number on Monday, so I will need to test it this weekend and I may need helpers. Bernie will do his best to integrate this number with Asterix by this weekend, but it seems possible to function (forwarding/voicemail) temporarily in standalone mode if that won't be possible. 2. Sugar 0.84 press release The final press release is ready in English and will be ready in Spanish and French later today. We hope to have German and Portugese by Monday. Help us please reach contacts in these languages, add contacts (without e-mail or phone which should be sent to me) to http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/Press_contacts. The screenshot has been chosen, but as a side effect this choice generated a vigorous & healthy debate concerning Sugar's Home view: freeform versus ring, how to handle too many icons, oval or spiral variants, Activity groupings, etc. As a result, the Design Team has called a meeting on this topic for 1300 UTC on Saturday March 21. During the marketing meeting, the point was raised that we are not as ready as we could be to welcome & manage volunteers. It may be necessary to update the Contributors page (http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=page&page=contributors) to reflect that. The next two press releases will be 1) in a few weeks, targeted at developers, for 0.84.1 or 0.84.2 ; 2) around April 10th for FOSSVT (http://www.ncose.org/) where we plan to roll out the first Sugar Labs-branded Sugar on a Stick. Discussion of that deadline led to the question of how to handle feedback in a scalable way; after the press launch we will turn our attention to this, in particular the Local Labs aspect. This also led to a discussion on whether and how Sugar is a "product", an issue we will need to be clear on. 3. Press release page on website Christian is working on this and we plan to go live with this page just prior to the media launch at 9:00AM EDT (1300 UTC). This page will be a permanent reference to our press releases and show the PR phone number above. 4. Printable PDF brochure A one or two-page handout for teachers, parents, and donors, this brochure will be a condensed version of the new site. Not ready yet, will be completed this weekend and posted on the Press page or elsewhere. Problem: we need photos of kids using Sugar, and signed releases of photos we will use. I have followed up this morning with the SFC on this second issue. 5. First 100 SoaS Sugar Labs branded USB sticks Little advancement on this from me, I'm only too aware the timeframe is shrinking but I am very occupied with the media launch, I will try to move forward on choosing a supplier this weekend. I don't have the purple-background inverted logo mockup from Christian yet, but he is also working hard on the media launch... 6. Sugar Stories Mel is working on this and hopes to have at least three ready & up on the wiki sometime this weekend. thanks! Sean Marketing Coordinator _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
