Preparations are underway for the Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry release media launch which will take place on Tuesday the 8th at Netbook World Summit in Paris. More information in today's marketing meeting (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Meetings).
In this holiday season, we want to remind teachers and parents that eBooks are not just pricey ebooks for fancy gadgets, but part of the open access to learning movement. We believe teachers and parents can benefit from step-by-step advice about getting eBooks into Sugar and so have started a wiki page called eBooks: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/ebooks Can anyone help with this page? Please add links to sources of children's ebooks! preferably downloadable ebooks (readable offline). By launch date, we will want to have a section on this page describing (for newcomers to Sugar) how to find, obtain and read eBooks with Sugar's reading Activities. And, a section explaining common formats maybe even with conversion tips. If you have a suggestion for an illustrated eBook to serve as an example, please let us know, preferably with link and license information. We hope to be able to include some eBooks with Blueberry, if for licensing reasons we can't we will set up online access to those ebooks through the default Browse page. We will also need translators for our press release which will be ready on Thursday. Volunteers greatly appreciated, there is a direct correlation between the language versions of our PR available and the coverage we bring to Sugar Labs in that language. If we are lucky enough to make a media splash as we did last June (alas! never guaranteed), we will organize the news monitoring as follows: [SoaS in the news] in the subject line, sent to Marketing and SoaS lists, digested so no more than 4 messages per day (exceptions for broadcast media if any). We're excited about this launch and hope everyone can help spread the word about Sugar to teachers and parents! thanks Sean Sugar Labs Marketing Coordinator _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
