[Marketing] [Sugar-devel] picked up by [some media]

[Sean DALY]

I'm sorry Jonas, I had assumed the success of our launch (3700 SoaS
downloads yesterday) would be of interest to all Sugar Labs
contributors, in particular those who worked so hard on it. Does
anyone else feel it's too much information? I would be worried though
if any contributors weren't interested in coverage, especially in
their countries.

Although most coverage has been in the online tech press, we are
reaching out to educational publications as well; it's only a matter
of time until we get coverage from them as well, as news of our pilot
projects comes onine.

You may be aware that we are battling a perception of developers
working too isolated from the classroom. Some critics have cited our
absence of both a feedback loop and consolidated data about
large-scale Sugar use. These are valid concerns that merit our
attention.

In my opinion, communicating the benefits of Sugar as a Facilitator is
something any of us could be doing. Marten Vijn spoke passionately
about direct action recently and he is absolutely right that each of
us should be spreading news of Sugar. Negative press means that
activity is more difficult; positive press means it's easier. So I
feel it is relevant to know if we are being covered fairly, if our
message is getting out, or if we are being heavily criticized in areas
we need improvement, or criticized unfairly based on false
perceptions.

thanks

Sean



On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Jonas Smedegaard<dr at jones.dk> wrote:
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> STOOOOP cross-posting marketing info, please!
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> Great info, but not educational nor geeky, so irrelevant for those lists
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> Kind regards,
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