[IAEP] branding usbdrives ==> Re: Topics & deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-10-2009: Countdown to 0.84 launch! Exceptional meeting today (Friday) at 1600 UTC

[Sean DALY]

Thanks Marten

The PDFs in English, French, Spanish, German are on this page:
http://www.sugarlabs.org/press

the first page of each PDF has the main text and the second page info
about Sugar Labs, etc.

Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Sean



On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Marten Vijn <info at martenvijn.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 18:01 +0100, Sean DALY wrote:
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> I was busy for a week in Amsterdam.
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>> if you have the possibility to send me one of the sticks, I'd
>> appreciate it, if not a good photo would be fine.
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> http://martenvijn.nl/trac/wiki/soas
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>> If you can, please choose sticks with LED activity indicators, this
>> will help users avoid losing data.
>>
>> That said, this policy may change with the arrival of Sugar on a Stick
>> v1.0 in a few months, so it would be best to check back as we approach
>> that.
> oke
>>
>> By the way, I'm looking for someone to help translate our press
>> release in Dutch, would you or anyone you know be able to help me with
>> that?
>
> Well I can give it a try, can you send me the text? Languages are not my
> best skills.
>
> Kind regards,
> Marten
>
>
>
>> thanks a lot
>>
>> Sean
>> Marketing Coordinator
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:49 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Marten Vijn <info at martenvijn.nl> wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 15:18 +0100, Sean DALY wrote:
>> >>> 5. First 100 SoaS Sugar Labs branded USB sticks
>> >>> Little advancement on this from me, I'm only too aware the timeframe
>> >>> is shrinking but I am very occupied with the media launch, I will try
>> >>> to move forward on choosing a supplier this weekend. I don't have the
>> >>> purple-background inverted logo mockup from Christian yet, but he is
>> >>> also working hard on the media launch...
>> >>>
>> >> I have been flashing about 30 drives/sd cards now....and I ordered 30
>> >> more.
>> >>
>> >> And I got sponsoring for 20's sticks now for my project.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I checked to get branded sticks. but it more expensive. I is a lot
>> >> cheaper to buy cheapest sticks you can find and brand these manually.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> To brand sticks these logo's could be used:
>> >>
>> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Image:Logo_alt_1.png
>> >>
>> >> or for small sticks/sd card
>> >>
>> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/thumb/7/71/Logo_alt_2.png/240px-Logo_alt_2.png
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Would it be an idea to support local sellers / supporters with stickers
>> >> to put on these stick/cards? In this way local group can have thier
>> >> branded sticks.
>> >>
>> >> If this is a good idea I could make it proposal.
>> >>
>> >> However I can imagian SugarLas wants it own branded/fabriked sticks to
>> >> keep thing more control. (I that case I would like order a couple.)
>> >
>> > We will have to explore this further.
>> >
>> > But I don't believe Sugar Labs is interested in controlling any thing:(
>> >
>> > Instead, Sugar Labs would like to leverage the Sugar and Sugar Labs
>> > brands as 'marks of quality' so that when our partners, like you, sell
>> > products, their customers know they are getting quality educational
>> > products.
>> >
>> > This will require some degree of control to limit the mis-use of sugar
>> > in substandard products.
>> >
>> > david
>> >
>> >> Just let me know,
>> >>
>> >> 2ct,
>> >>
>> >> Marten
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>> >> --
>> >> Marten Vijn
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>> >> http://martenvijn.nl
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