Re: [IAEP] Getting the message out - take2

2009-01-18 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > May I kindly suggest adding a few more words about learning, education, > deployments and results? Deployments have better stories about learning than the rest of us can possibly tell. Until now, deployments have had little to no contact with us Sugar developers. Th

Re: [IAEP] Fosdem

2009-01-18 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Bernie Innocenti schrieb: > Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> please update http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/Events/FOSDEM_2009 >> if you are going to attend FOSDEM. >> > > Done. > > > >>> Who is hosting us? >>> >> About sleeping, I think we haven't started worrying about that. Though

Re: [IAEP] Getting the message out - take2

2009-01-18 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
May I kindly suggest adding a few more words about learning, education, deployments and results? The current list of items there might be of interest to lwn readers but you would lose 90% of the readers one might want to address at "Sugar's development infrastructure..." In fact I would sugges

Re: [IAEP] Getting the message out - take2

2009-01-18 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Sean DALY wrote: > Is this useful? YES, a lot useful! Thanks. I'll revise my unsorted list into something better on the plane, but it's really up to professional communicators to give this good news for us. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://www

Re: [IAEP] Getting the message out - take2

2009-01-18 Thread Walter Bender
thanks for the thoughtful feedback. -walter On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > If I may offer two cents, I have worked in journalism and corporate > communications. > > As I am not sure what the target audience is for this text (FOSDEM > attendees? journalists? bloggers?), my su

Re: [IAEP] Getting the message out - take2

2009-01-18 Thread Sean DALY
If I may offer two cents, I have worked in journalism and corporate communications. As I am not sure what the target audience is for this text (FOSDEM attendees? journalists? bloggers?), my suggestions may not be useful, but: I would dispense with the negativity at the beginning. Don't bother com

Re: [IAEP] Getting the message out - take2

2009-01-18 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > So, anyone here that is syndicated in planet gnome and want to do a shared > post? > > Or anyone that can ping Jeff Waugh to get me added soonish? You should remind them that Sugar Labs is also a member of the Gnome Foundation :-) -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.co

Re: [IAEP] Getting the message out - take2

2009-01-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 22:09, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > David Van Assche wrote: >> Actually, this is really important, I've been asked several times >> whether development on sugar has been stopped due to the olpc thing... >> so its definitly a good idea to spread this message > > You seem to

Re: [IAEP] Getting the message out - take2

2009-01-18 Thread Bernie Innocenti
David Van Assche wrote: > Actually, this is really important, I've been asked several times > whether development on sugar has been stopped due to the olpc thing... > so its definitly a good idea to spread this message You seem to be good at blogging. How about reorganizing this into somethin

Re: [IAEP] Getting the message out - take2

2009-01-18 Thread David Van Assche
Actually, this is really important, I've been asked several times whether development on sugar has been stopped due to the olpc thing... so its definitly a good idea to spread this message David Van Assche On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > [cc += i...@] > > Here's a

[IAEP] Getting the message out - take2

2009-01-18 Thread Bernie Innocenti
[cc += i...@] Here's a revised version integrating some feedback from marketing@: -8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<- Does the world know that Sugar Labs is still 100% committed to support Sugar? We got nearly zero press coverage lately, and the only message

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] feature freeze issue #2: making easier for people to title their activities

2009-01-18 Thread Eben Eliason
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:20:29PM -0500, Eben Eliason wrote: > > ["Don't keep" option in Naming dialog that pops up when closing the > activity] >> >> Honestly, I think we'll make a lot of people happier by offering this >> option. > > Pleas

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] feature freeze issue #2: making easier for people to title their activities

2009-01-18 Thread Eben Eliason
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > Walter Bender wrote: >> Looks good. I am hoping that the description field will start to see >> more use, as I leverage it directly ion the Portfolio tool. > > pushed to git now. > > One >> comment: I don't see the option to not save the

Re: [IAEP] Fosdem

2009-01-18 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > please update http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/Events/FOSDEM_2009 > if you are going to attend FOSDEM. Done. >> Who is hosting us? > > About sleeping, I think we haven't started worrying about that. Though > may be about time. I know a few people in Brussels, but non

[IAEP] Support vs Educational Content Writers.

2009-01-18 Thread C.W. Holeman II
http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved#Content_Writer This Content Writer is for training on the use of and in support of Sugar. There needs to be another kind of person that creates content for use in Sugar by the Activities like the Browser. I have not come up with two good terms to

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] feature freeze issue #2: making easier for people to title their activities

2009-01-18 Thread Simon Schampijer
Walter Bender wrote: > Looks good. I am hoping that the description field will start to see > more use, as I leverage it directly ion the Portfolio tool. pushed to git now. One > comment: I don't see the option to not save the entry. Tomeu and myself decided that the 'don't keep' button does n

Re: [IAEP] Getting Involved

2009-01-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Jan 2009, at 11:34, Gabriel Eirea wrote: > Gary, > > That work is wonderful. However, I believe there is a very important > role that is missing. It is the role of the theacher as a designer of > activities with specific pedagogic goals. It is somehow in the > intersection of the Content Wri

Re: [IAEP] Getting Involved

2009-01-18 Thread Gabriel Eirea
Gary, That work is wonderful. However, I believe there is a very important role that is missing. It is the role of the theacher as a designer of activities with specific pedagogic goals. It is somehow in the intersection of the Content Writer, the Designer and the Developer, but I believe the role

Re: [IAEP] Getting Involved

2009-01-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Jan 2009, at 02:22, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Gary, > > your work on http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved is > TOTALLY AWESOME! > > Thank you very much for taking care of it. Thanks Bernie, glad you liked it! The example role texts still in need of some additional edits (more

Re: [IAEP] Fosdem

2009-01-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi all, please update http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/Events/FOSDEM_2009 if you are going to attend FOSDEM. On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 08:15, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Who is coming? See page above. > Who is hosting us? About sleeping, I think we haven't started worrying about that. Though