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The Marketing team will be holding regular weekly meetings on Tuesdays at 15 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.

The Sugar Labs Meetings calendar is available in a variety of formats at these links: .

Upcoming Agenda

1. First 100 SoaS Sugar Labs branded USB sticks for FOSSVT

• Status

2. Target developers with tech-oriented release?

• +/- ?

3. FOSSVT: Next press push for beta of SoaS over fedora 11

• +/- ?
• Will SoaS be ready?
• Nomenclature: "beta 1"? -> countdown to v1.0

4. Printable PDF brochure

• Photo release text almost ready, but needs to be made up into printable form
• Fabulous Mike Lee photos, Bertf and Rita's

5. LinuxTag (24-27 June 2009)

• booth banner / roll-up banner: fabulous Mike Lee photos?
• secret to success booth marketing
• swag: cafepress (www.cafepress.com)?
• in general: shippable event marketing pack

6. How Google sees us

• Currently: "Spin-off of the "Sugar" desktop environment to another project.", let's update & improve

7. Organizing teacher & parent feedback: start with SoaS beta?

• Allow each person with SoaS to become a Sugar Test Marketer
• Concept: report bugs without expectation of response
• Important: freestyle general comments/impressions field
• Not necessarily direct bug report -> triage?
• SaS cheap solution: Survey Monkey (www.surveymonkey.com)?

8. other topics?

Previous Agenda

March 17, 2009 meeting

1. Debrief of media launch

• Press articles
• Google indexing impact
• eReleases performance evaluation
• SL press-contactable: telephone, pr@sugarlabs.org, new press page
• Press release workflow including translations
• www.sugarlabs.org: Integration of static intro + wiki + a.sl.o

2. LinuxTag (24-27 June 2009)

Simon suggests to look at these before the meeting:

• http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~erikos/linuxtag_project.pdf
• http://wiki.linuxtag.org/w/fp:Call_for_Projects

3. Printable PDF brochure

• Layout: 1 or 2 pages?
• Photo release
• Fabulous Mike Lee photos!

4. First 100 SoaS Sugar Labs branded USB sticks

• Next high-priority project! Deadline very tight!

5. other topics?

Meeting Logs

• Marketing Team Meeting 05-12-2009[1]
• Marketing Team Meeting 05-05-2009[2]
• Marketing Team Meeting 04-29-2009[3]
• Marketing Team Meeting 04-14-2009[4]
• Marketing Team Meeting 04-07-2009[5]
• Marketing Team Meeting 03-24-2009[6]
• Marketing Team Meeting 03-17-2009[7]
• Marketing Team Meeting 03-13-2009[8]
• Marketing Team Meeting 03-10-2009[9]
• Marketing Team/Meetings/03-03-2009
• Marketing Team/Meetings/02-25-2009
• Marketing Team/Meetings/02-10-2009
• Marketing Team/Meetings/12-23-2008
• Marketing Team/Meetings/12-16-2008
• Marketing Team/Meetings/12-9-2008
• Marketing Team/Meetings/12-2-2008