For those of you who haven't been following the Marketing list, Sugar Labs and the Free Software Foundation will be issuing a joint press release today celebrating Software Freedom Day. It is visible on our site at http://www.sugarlabs.org/press and on the FSF site at http://www.fsf.org/news/sugar-labs and will be on PRNewswire later today. I thank Bernie for his idea which grew out of his initiative to intern at FSF for several months and I am sure his time there will generate new ideas about deploying Sugar.
This is an excellent opportunity for us to call upon experienced FLOSS developers to join Sugar Labs and I invite those of you with blogs to spread this message. It's also an occasion for us to support OLPC which has had some bad press lately, most of it ill-informed. Last month, the FSF itself presented a distorted picture of OLPC and Sugar, based on secondary sources; many of us communicated our disappointment to them, and they were quick to redress the situation. Today's press release makes clear that the FSF and its sister organizations, the FSF Latin America and FSF Europe, will support and promote the spread of Sugar to children worldwide. We don't expect as wide coverage of this announcement as we had for the Strawberry launch, but what is important is that we reach developers and the community. So please, spread the word about the exciting things happening at Sugar Labs! thanks Sean Sugar Labs Marketing Coordinator _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing
