[Marketing] SL at NECC 2010

[Caroline Meeks]

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com
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>>> I wish for a more instructive poster next year with bullet points and
>>> photos showing Sugar in use and some of the Activity interfaces. Something a
>>> teacher could read in a minute while walking by. I'll try to work on that
>>> soon. The Sugar Learning Platform poster meant nothing to most people.
>>> Additionally, it would be really nice to have a projector going to do
>>> non-stop 10-minute live demos of Sugar and Activities.
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>>> Collaboration is a killer feature of Sugar, and we were largely blocked
>>> from demoing that because the wifi channels at the convention center were
>>> saturated much of the time. My Verizon MiFi card wouldn't work for the same
>>> reason. I will bring a hub/switch with hard wiring next year.
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>> TODO (and this one is on my urgent list) - Bug 1113- I tried this at a local expo I went to and IT DID NOT WORK. I have no idea why. Mike, can you try it at home
>> and let me know if it works for
>> you?  We need this to work for both conferences and to put computer clusters into the GPA.
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> I'll try one night this week. I don't have a switch, but can pick one up.
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>>> Lastly, I will know to make a pitch way before Denver to pay for our own
>>> table in the open source area so that we can plan for a more versatile booth
>>> setup with some assurance of enough table space. I'm sure we could hit up
>>> the Scratch and Etoys teams next year for help in expanding the booth. I'd
>>> also like not to wait a year before doing another education conference and
>>> will be looking for opportunities in the DC area in the coming months to
>>> keep practicing our elevator pitches and building the field demo kit.
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>> There are Computer Using Educator or similar conferences in every state
>> every year, so lots of opportunities to practice. It would be awesome to
>> have a kit, and a how to, and to have facilitators all over the country
>> going to their local conferences.
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> Looks like CUE is mostly in California. I'll look for, and take suggestions
> on, conferences or workshops in the mid-Atlantic area where we can set up.
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I think the name may change from state to state but we are going to one in
Mass and NY this year.  I found a huge list of places where Discovery Labs
is setting up a booth. We can probably look for other vendors and get
ourselves a pretty good list.

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> Mike
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