[Marketing] A letter to the governor of CA

[Sean DALY]

Yes, I want to be opportunistic about this.

At the very least we can raise visibility for Sugar.

Our reading offer is a little fragmented (Read, Read ETexts, FBReader?
InfoSlicer for assembling content) but that's not really a problem.

Where we might hit a bump is publishers insisting on DRM schemes or suchlike.

Sean


On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Bryan Berry<bryan at olenepal.org> wrote:
> good idea Caroline and here is something else worth trying
>
> I think the Marketing team should find out which companies (IBM?
> Accenture? Addison-Wesley?) are angling to win the contract for the
> digital textbooks and convince them that Sugar will give them a
> competitive advantage in winning the contract.
>
> On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 22:42 -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote:
>> I think we should write an open letter to the gov of CA (Sean's idea
>> acutally I'm just taking it public) talking about Sugar as a way of
>> helping them with their move to online content.
>>
>> My outline is -
>>
>> Bad Scenario - The kids who have computers and high speed internet get
>> interactive content, adaptive quizzes and video, the kid sitting in
>> the next seat gets printouts.  Clearly that is not equitable or
>> acceptable.
>>
>> The Solution - Sugar, on a netbook, XO or a USB Stick and a donated
>> desktop at home and existing computers at school.  When connected to
>> Moodle we could have this weeks content automatically downloaded at
>> school and available at home whether or not there is internet. Sugar
>> is designed for intermittant internet connectivity with hundreds of
>> free activities.
>>
>> I think we should be pretty neutral/nonjudgemental about what CA is
>> doing and focus on providing them with solutions.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Caroline Meeks
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>> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
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