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The Marketing team will be holding regular bi-weekly meetings on Tuesdays at 16 UTC on irc.freenode.net (channel: #sugar-meeting). Please add to the agenda below and please join in with your ideas.

Hint: You can use an online time calculator to convert from UTC to your local time zone or back.

Upcoming Agenda

by Sean Daly


1) Make SL press-contactable We still have no telephone(s) solution and this is getting hot. I am currently looking at an answering service solution which can provide a local dedicated phone number to voicemail in Boston or NYC with e-mail alert for under $10 per month. Advantages: stable phone number and cost, any phone message can reach several people so no single point of failure. Disadvantage: journalists prefer speaking with humans instead of recordings of humans. We do need a solution this week. Side issue, but urgent: we need to be able to send the press releases (en, fr, es, de, pt) from the pr@sugarlabs.org alias. How will that work?


2) 0.84 Marketing talking points. What new features of the Sugar Learning Platform do we want to talk about in the press release? Let's hit-parade them. Input please! My feeling is to prefer talking up Activities over the platform, but perhaps there is platform news we just can't keep to ourselves?


3) 0.84 Press release draft - how shall we handle? I had been asked to do a brief on the fuzzy science of creating a press release (distributing it and placing it is a separate subject!). We need to start with the skeleton (letterhead, About Sugar Labs). But, I'm not at all sure if we want to circulate actual title & draft text prior to the launch. However, the goal of asking the translation team for help requires some lead time - the sooner they have the text, the better. Your point of view regarding this workflow is requested.


4) Launch countdown It's not quite clear to me how we pick the magic date & time when the release goes out, the final version is published, and hopefully journalists take notice. If we can work out a coordination protocol (e.g. Walter decides, or Simon decides the release date/time), we can work together to the countdown. Let's work together on this.


5) Printable PDF brochure (was: elevator pitch for teachers) The more I think about it, the more this resembles a condensed version of text from the new static site. So I think we should put energy into that over the next couple of days, and the PDF will come out on the rebound in time for the launch.


6) Sugar Stories Can we try to put together at least 3 and hopefully 5 stories about Sugar contributors? Before we all nominate each other (joke) let's think about how we can do this quickly. The goal being to encourage prospective volunteers to the fun & satisfaction of working on Sugar. maybe as simple as asking everyone to update their page on the wiki with "Why I Contribute To Sugar"?


7) Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) Update on where we are with ordering sticks, but we also need to decide shipping address! Fabulous idea from Carol: include a SoaS USB maker in Sugar & on the liveCD.


8) Other topics?

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