On 04/06/09 23:28, David Farning wrote: > 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.
So far, I totally agree with what you said. > As a starting point I suggest that we spend approximately 70% on > travel and 30% on marketing. 50% and 50% sounds more reasonable to me, considering that at some point we'll want to reach out for a non geeky audience, too. I'd be curious to see what the budget of the Mozilla foundation looks like. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://www.sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep