[IAEP] Sugar Partners

[Edward Cherlin]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 3:21 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Sugar Lab's has been working on clarifying it's image. How we interact with
> our partners defines who we are and for what we stand.
>
> In the past few months, hardware vendors, Linux distributors, and
> application developers have approached Sugar Labs about partnering. This
> leads to the question, "What is a Sugar Labs partner?"
>
> Partnering with organization who share our mission, vision, and values will
> extend our impact. The challenge of improving education is bigger than any
> one person or organization can accomplish, Sugar Labs is one piece of that
> larger picture.
>
> Working together with educational and technological organizations we can
> leverage recent advances to improve education everywhere.
>
> We will be working on the details over the next few weeks. As a starting
> point two benefits of partnering with Sugar Labs are:
>
> Credibility - As we establish Sugar as a credible brand, we will lend that
> credibility to parters through the use of 'Sugar Badges'.
>
> Marketing – At Sugar Labs we will develop and market the Sugar brand and
> labels.
>
> A requirement for partnering will be:
>
> Improving Platform – Our partners must in some way take steps to improve the
> sugar platorm.

So would that include Earth Treasury? Some of our contributions:

o Administering two neglected localization projects
o Recruiting localizers
o Contributing design ideas for various software, content, and textbooks
o Recruiting other partners
o Taking on R & D challenges such as village electricity and Internet

Clearly Red Hat qualifies, and so does Google with Summer of Code
projects. How about eBay, which as far as I know has only contributed
cash?

I can cite numerous organizations that I think should join in our work
and become Sugar partners, but I'll save that for another time.

> thanks
> david
>
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