Mmm, personally I'd say that at least a third of Sugar Labs' budget should go towards actual development.
All of that traveling and outreach becomes somewhat of a moot point when the actual platform we're building a community around and marketing doesn't work as advertised/expected. Just my 2 euro-cents, Christoph Am 06.04.2009 um 23:28 schrieb David Farning <[email protected]>: > Last week, I set the rather abstract goal of raising $100,000US for > Sugar Labs. $100,000 seems like a reasonable number for a project in > its second year. Last year, Sugar Labs proved that it could get a > surprisingly large amount of development accomplished with very little > money. > > As for direct spending, I believe that Sugar Labs should focus it's > resources entirely on community and ecosystem development. A strong > community and ecosystem means more Sugar related job! > > The primary method for us to strengthen the community is through > travel stipends to enable contributors to meet face to face. > > The primary method for us to build the ecosystem is to send > ambassadors, such as Walter, to meet with potential partners. So far > Walter has been covering his much of his own travel expenses:( > > The second method for building both the community and ecosystem is > getting out the word through marketing. > > As a starting point I suggest that we spend approximately 70% on > travel and 30% on marketing. > > david > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
