[Marketing] Sugar Boot CDs

Mike Lee curiouslee at gmail.com
Sun Jun 21 19:42:10 EDT 2009


OK, the revised CD-ROM Data Storage logo is in. Thanks for the source
art. I also guessed at some cross-platform instructions for the
LiveCD.

I will test print this layout on Avery CD label stock tonight.

Mike



On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Mike Lee<curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:
> Attached is a JPEG of the layout I have for the Sugar LiveCD and Boot
> Helper CD labels on a 2-up Avery template based on Sean's guildelines.
> I can't for the life of me find plain-english instructions for a Sugar
> LiveCD, and the Sugar Labs site doesn't promote them on the downloads
> page. When design and copy is finalized I'll make 2 templates, one for
> each type of CD in 2-up.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Mike Lee<curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> OK, I will take Sean's excellent guidelines for the CD and adapt them
>> a label design based on the info on the OLPC LiveCD page:
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveCd
>>
>> Kevin, Jeff and Luke have experience burning them, and I believe Kevin
>> made last year's Sugar LiveCD, pictured here:
>>
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/2855498849/sizes/o/
>>
>> I will send my draft design back for comment.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hmmm a CD-only Sugar would mean no Journal storage I guess?
>>>
>>> It's been done before (I have a Fedora spin with Sugar 0.82 around)
>>> but I've lost track of what the latest one is.
>>>
>>> No doubt a boot helper CD without a stick will be confusing... since
>>> even a liveCD will be confusing, most people probably just assuming it
>>> will be software for Windows or Mac :-(
>>>
>>> SoaS sidesteps perceptions/expectations associated with CDs.
>>>
>>> It would be great if a Sugar liveCD could prompt for a stick and store
>>> the Journal on that; would be perfect for a classroom shared machine,
>>> and an identical liveCD at home could prolong the Sugar experience.
>>>
>>> An option to create a SoaS would be cool.
>>>
>>> I have no idea how difficult these might be technically speaking.
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Caroline
>>> Meeks<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I think it makes sense to give out full live CDs.
>>>>
>>>> I think it only makes sense to give out Boot Helper CDs with USBs or people
>>>> will be hopelessly confused by them.
>>>>
>>>> I wish there was one CD that could do both :)  It would look for a USB and
>>>> if it wasn't there it would boot Sugar from the CD.
>>>>
>>>> Caroline
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm just following up to clarify the deal with handing out Sugar CDs
>>>>> at NECC. As I understand it, we will be making up CD labels (still
>>>>> need source art or direction on what to adapt) and burning CDs. Kevin
>>>>> and Jeff have worked at the NECC open source pavilion before and say
>>>>> that they had hundreds of Ubuntu CDs evaporate quickly. I think we'll
>>>>> have to ration ours to give out to folks who demonstrate some mild
>>>>> interest. If these are boot CDs, we must make it clear on the label
>>>>> that one still has to download the Fedora utility to burn SoaS onto a
>>>>> USB drive. If we don't make this explicit, people will think the CD is
>>>>> an installer or the ready-to-go LiveCD.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike
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>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Caroline Meeks
>>>> Solution Grove
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>>>>
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