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''by Sean Daly''
 
''by Sean Daly''
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1. Making Sugar Labs press-contactable - there's a problem with
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Google's Grand Central: it's US-only (for call forwarding) at this
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time. But I think I have a solution - obtain a US GSM SIM card which I
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could use in Europe (if the roaming fees won't ruin me  ;-) .
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:: What are the "requirements" for a successful "SL is press-contactable now!" solution? Not being too familiar with PR, I'm curious what we're aiming for here, exactly. [[User:Mchua|Mchua]]
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::: The idea is that a journalist has a phone number to call (many journalists are short on time and are facing a deadline) which is not Walter's. (Of course, if they already know Walter, that's different.) Ideally, there should be a fallback, i.e. if I can't respond quickly, someone else can see that there is a message and call back. This kind of reactivity is why many companies use PR firms. Google's beta Grand Central seems like a good solution but unfortunately will not forward to non-US numbers as far as I can make out. [[User:SeanDaly|Sean]]
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2. List of education publications I have added for press releases -
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1) Make SL press-contactable
after much googling & yahooing I have identified a number of education
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We still have no telephone(s) solution and this is getting hot. I am
publications/portals. I'll submit my list for comment later today.
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currently looking at an answering service solution which can provide a
:: Can you add a link to that (hopefully wiki-editable) list at the end of the agenda item here? I'll take a look and try to add my own ideas to the list once it is up. [[User:Mchua|Mchua]]
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local dedicated phone number to voicemail in Boston or NYC with e-mail
::: Mel - there are over 75 links on the list so I mailed it to the Marketing alias. I don't think it's advisable to maintain the PR contact list on a wiki, in particular e-mail addresses... [[User:SeanDaly|Sean]]
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alert for under $10 per month. Advantages: stable phone number and
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cost, any phone message can reach several people so no single point of
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failure. Disadvantage: journalists prefer speaking with humans instead
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of recordings of humans. We do need a solution this week. Side issue,
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but urgent: we need to be able to send the press releases (en, fr, es,
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de, pt) from the pr@sugarlabs.org alias. How will that work?
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3. Elevator pitch for teachers - I will respond to Walter's rough
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draft later today & would like your input. This text may be a starting
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point for the next press release's short description of Sugar Labs
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(underneath "news" part of press release).
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:: Editable version at [[MarketingTeam/Pitches]], from [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2009-February/000279.html Walter's first draft to the list], since I couldn't find another wiki version - please merge/redirect if there's a duplicate, or let me know and I'll do it. [[User:Mchua|Mchua]]
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4. Press release languages - I'd like to spend a couple of minutes
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2) 0.84 Marketing talking points.
discussing the possibility of doing press releases in languages other
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What new features of the Sugar Learning Platform do we want to talk
than English, in particular en, fr, de, pt. I can do French and
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about in the press release? Let's hit-parade them. Input please! My
perhaps we can find volunteers to do the other languages? There's a
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feeling is to prefer talking up Activities over the platform, but
workflow aspect to this of course.
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perhaps there is platform news we just can't keep to ourselves?
:: I'm guessing you meant es instead of en, above. ;) [[User:Mchua|Mchua]]
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::: Yes, quite right - es not en! [[User:SeanDaly|Sean]]
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5. Sugar Labs Ambassadors program - dfarning has suggested we look at
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Fedora's Ambassadors program.
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:: Also Ubuntu LoCo teams. Other non-software location-based community teams that might be worth looking at as models: Rotary, Habitat for Humanity, Boy Scouts / Girl Scouts, American Cancer Society (and other community-run fundraising/outreach efforts from the medical field). [[User:Mchua|Mchua]]
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6. Obtaining USB sticks for Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) - have we
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contacted anyone beyond Belkin, Pantone, Emtec? and where are we with
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3) 0.84 Press release draft - how shall we handle?
these three leads.
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I had been asked to do a brief on the fuzzy science of creating a
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press release (distributing it and placing it is a separate subject!).
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We need to start with the skeleton (letterhead, About Sugar Labs).
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But, I'm not at all sure if we want to circulate actual title & draft
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text prior to the launch. However, the goal of asking the translation
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team for help requires some lead time - the sooner they have the text,
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the better. Your point of view regarding this workflow is requested.
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4) Launch countdown
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It's not quite clear to me how we pick the magic date & time when the
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release goes out, the final version is published, and hopefully
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journalists take notice. If we can work out a coordination protocol
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(e.g. Walter decides, or Simon decides the release date/time), we can
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work together to the countdown. Let's work together on this.
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5) Printable PDF brochure (was: elevator pitch for teachers)
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The more I think about it, the more this resembles a condensed version
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of text from the new static site. So I think we should put energy into
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that over the next couple of days, and the PDF will come out on the
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rebound in time for the launch.
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6) Sugar Stories
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Can we try to put together at least 3 and hopefully 5 stories about
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Sugar contributors? Before we all nominate each other (joke) let's
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think about how we can do this quickly. The goal being to encourage
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prospective volunteers to the fun & satisfaction of working on Sugar.
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maybe as simple as asking everyone to update their page on the wiki
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with "Why I Contribute To Sugar"?
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7) Sugar on a Stick (SoaS)
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Update on where we are with ordering sticks, but we also need to
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decide shipping address! Fabulous idea from Carol: include a SoaS USB
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maker in Sugar & on the liveCD.
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8) Other topics?
    
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