[Marketing] [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

[Marten Vijn]

On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 18:01 +0100, Sean DALY wrote:

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.

http://martenvijn.nl/trac/wiki/soas



> 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.
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> 
> 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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