The press release was completed last night! Can anyone help with German and Dutch?
We hope to get these up during the day Monday, and send to our press/education contacts mailing list on Tuesday when PR Newswire will carry it in English thanks! Sean On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
