Re: [IAEP] Funding team?

2011-09-06 Thread Sean DALY
Marketing is not fundraising. In traditional FOSS projects, marketing really means contributor recruitment, which is not marketing either. I've been asked in the past to organize translations, with the argument that everything non-engineering is automatically marketing. I agree 100% there

Re: [IAEP] Funding team?

2011-09-06 Thread Caryl Bigenho
...@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [IAEP] Funding team? Marketing is not fundraising. In traditional FOSS projects, marketing really means contributor recruitment, which is not marketing either. I've been asked in the past to organize translations, with the argument that everything non-engineering

Re: [IAEP] Funding team?

2011-08-13 Thread David Ally
@lists.sugarlabs.org; OLPC-SUR olpc-...@lists.laptop.org Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 5:56 AM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Funding team? On Fri, August 12, 2011 9:41 pm, Sebastian Silva wrote: Earlier this year there was discussion about forming a Financial Team. I'm not sure exactly if a team is required

Re: [IAEP] Funding team?

2011-08-12 Thread mokurai
On Fri, August 12, 2011 12:49 am, Chris Leonard wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:30 PM, moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote: I would like to propose that we create a funding team to pursue grant opportunities and partnerships for Sugar Labs, including Activity development, translation,

Re: [IAEP] Funding team?

2011-08-12 Thread Sebastian Silva
Earlier this year there was discussion about forming a Financial Team. I'm not sure exactly if a team is required, but formalizing mechanisms for projects like translations and content, research or development, to look for funds - sounds like an excellent idea. We (local labs) have been

Re: [IAEP] Funding team?

2011-08-12 Thread mokurai
On Fri, August 12, 2011 9:41 pm, Sebastian Silva wrote: Earlier this year there was discussion about forming a Financial Team. I'm not sure exactly if a team is required, but formalizing mechanisms for projects like translations and content, research or development, to look for funds - sounds

[IAEP] Funding team?

2011-08-11 Thread mokurai
I would like to propose that we create a funding team to pursue grant opportunities and partnerships for Sugar Labs, including Activity development, translation, documentation, teacher training materials, and digital content integrating software into lessons and explorations. To get things

Re: [IAEP] Funding team?

2011-08-11 Thread Chris Leonard
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:30 PM, moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote: I would like to propose that we create a funding team to pursue grant opportunities and partnerships for Sugar Labs, including Activity development, translation, documentation, teacher training materials, and digital content

Re: [IAEP] Funding team?

2011-08-11 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: Obviously any effort representing Sugar Labs to funding sources (and committing Sugar Labs to the contractual conditions of such funding such as financial and other progress reporting and tracking requirements)