Hi, If you read this and said to yourself. "Well yes this is important, but I'm a geek and I don't do marketing" please take a minute and think about the marketing, advertising and press related people at your work and social circles.  Think if there are a couple people you could talk to about Sugar and why you think its important and see if perhaps they would like to volunteer with the project. Thanks! Caroline <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <<a href="mailto:gdk@redhat.com">gdk@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> (forwarded from the marketing list) Hi folks. My job description here at Red Hat is changing a bit, and I'm going to have significantly less time to devote to Sugar.  As such, I need to focus on areas where I can have the most impact.  I believe that marketing Sugar is a pretty key activity, but it's no longer one that I have time to lead. Therefore: it's time to find a new lead for the marketing team. What does that mean, exactly? Well, it means a bunch of things.  It means figuring out how to create things like t-shirts and lollipops and stickers out of thin air.  It means figuring out how to get Sugar exposure at events.  It means arranging to getting Sugar advocates in front of people.  It means running meetings to keep everyone on the same page (what's most important this week, and who's doing it?) It's a lot of work.  Leadership always is.  I still believe, strongly, that someone needs to step up to this work -- but right now, this person cannot be me. With my limited time, I will continue to focus on the engineering side, with a specific focus on bringing as many volunteer engineering resources to bear.  If someone chooses to renew the weekly meetings, I will happily attend and share my experiences in "marketing open source". The floor is open. --g -- Got an XO that you're not using?  Loan it to a needy developer!    [[ <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Exchange_Registry" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Exchange_Registry</a> ]] _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list <a href="mailto:Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org">Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing</a> _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax