[Marketing] Marketing Digest, Vol 9, Issue 9

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 02:10, Jim Simmons<nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> Edward,
>
> I guess we have a Bible reading Activity (Sword?) and a Qur'an reading
> Activity somewhere, and while it would make sense to get these on ASLO
> I don't see that they belong as one of the pre-installed Activities on
> SoaS.  As for a selection of literature, I see two problems:
>
> 1).  How to make the selection?
> 2).  How to communicate that this selection is just a drop in the
> ocean of what is available for free?
>
> Now if you install _Get Internet Archive Books_ you can type in the
> word "Bible", "Qur'an", and even "Koran" and get a list of hundreds of
> books including and about the Bible and the Qur'an, in several
> languages, including Arabic.  For the Bible you can get several
> versions of the book itself in several languages, plus tracts
> condemning slavery that quote from the Bible, tracts condemning
> Abolitionists quoting from the Bible, etc.  Add _Read Etexts_ to Sugar
> and download another 28,000 or so books, including the Bible and the
> Qur'an, an English translation of the Mahabharata, etc.
>
> At one time I did favor getting some books added to the Journal, maybe
> something non-controversial like an Oz book, etc.  Now I think we have
> to make teachers and learners understand just how easy it is to get
> their own books in the Journal.
>
> I'm blowing my own horn here, but I do think what I have created gives
> us something good to sell.

Enthusiastic +1

But what about users without easy internet access?

Regards,

Tomeu

> James Simmons
>
>
>> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:03:24 -0700
>> From: Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] The next Step: v2
>>        Roadmap
>> To: Sebastian Dziallas <sdz at sugarlabs.org>
>> Cc: Sugar Labs Marketing <marketing at lists.sugarlabs.org>,       Sugar Devel
>>        <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>> Message-ID:
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>> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Sebastian Dziallas<sebastian at when.com> wrote:
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> so here it is, the Sugar on a Stick v2 Roadmap:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap#Roadmap
>>>
>>> Feedback is appreciated, and as we've just entered brainstorming phase,
>>> please go ahead and shoot your ideas! :)
>>
>> I would like to see the Bible (Tanakh and New Testament) and Qur'an
>> included, and a selection of world literature.
>>
>>> More to come...
>>>
>>> --Sebastian
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Silent Thunder (??/???????????????/????????????? ?) is my name
>> And Children are my nation.
>> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination.
>> http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin)
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