[Marketing] [IAEP] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

[David Van Assche]

Sean and others....

can we please try and use the term SoaS slighlty more agnostically.
Right now, every time its mentioned it always uses the Fedora backend
without question or debate. I think of it a little like when someone
says write me an office letter (and its quitely assumed by everyonen
that they will be using Microsoft word for this) I spoke briefly to
Sebastian about this and we suggestd, quite entertainingly:

FedSoaS or SoaSora
SuSoaS or SoaSuse
GenSoaS or SoaS(t)oo
DebSoaS or SoaSian
ManSoaS or SoaSiva
CaSoaS or SoaSica

For me, I kind of like the last column....

Anyway, the point is not to tie SoaS to one distro... there are enough
people willing to help for the different distros , and the more
markets the better right?

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> We've discussed my idea to do a "flurry" of press releases over the
> next couple of weeks, coinciding with our presence/sessions at:
>
> * LinuxTag
> Berlin
> June 24-27
> http://www.linuxtag.org/2009/en.html
>
> * Free & Open Source Software in Education (FOSSED)
> Bethel, Maine
> June 24-26
> http://www.fossed.com
>
> * National Educational Computing Conference (NECC)
> Washington, DC
> June 28-July 1
> http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2009
> (also EduBloggerCon / Classroom 2.0 "LIVE in DC" on June 27:
> http://www.edubloggercon.com/EduBloggerCon+2009)
>
> * Gran Canaria Desktop Summit (GUADEC+Akademy)
> Canary Islands
> July 3-July 11
> http://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org/
>
>
> After mulling it over I feel our interests will be best served by two
> press releases (eReleases/PR Newswire + Sugar Labs press page +
> targeted mailing to journalists & educators), with an option for a
> third at GUADEC if there are new developments (very possible over next
> 10 days):
>
> Wednesday, June 24th, datelined LinuxTag:
> SoaS v1 Strawberry release!
> Gould grant / GPA pilot -> classroom tests of SoaS
> 100 GCompris/ASLO -> offer enriched
> XO-1.5 refresh/XO SoaS version -> not forgetting the XO installed base
> Local Labs -> Colombia, Washington DC, Rochester?
> Dailymotion channel -> info source
> Image: SoaS beauty shots
>
> * Monday, June 29th: NECC (Washington DC)
> Nexcopy partnership
> Image: TBD
>
>
> I feel the richness of our news on the day both LinuxTag and FOSSED
> open will increase our chances for wide coverage. I think back-to-back
> releases won't work for our targeted mailing list and including two
> releases in one mailing would be clumsy. This will also simplify
> printing for handouts.
>
> The Nexcopy partnership has a different angle and call to action
> (collect & recycle sticks / gesture for schools) and merits a separate
> treatment.
>
> The deadline for the Wednesday SoaS release is in 24 hours... I will
> put up a draft for the marketing list in a few hours.
>
> I will attend LinuxTag on June 26-27 and SugarCamp/FUDCon June 28th.
>
> If I've forgotten anything, if anyone has better ideas, please by all
> means let me know
>
> thanks!
>
> Sean
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