[Marketing] [IAEP] branding usbdrives ==> Re: Topics & deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-10-2009: Countdown to 0.84 launch! Exceptional meeting today (Friday) at 1600 UTC

[Sean DALY]

Marten, there's no problem for me if you want to put stickers on
sticks, just please be sure to use the official Sugar Labs logo
(http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Logo). Right now we prefer "Sugar Labs"
instead of "Sugar" as the former googles us much better than the
latter. Sugar Labs is a trademarked logo and some printing houses may
want to verify your right to reprint, I can of course help you with
that if the question is asked.

I'm ordering the first batch of 100 branded sticks for FOSSVT
(http://www.ncose.org) but I don't have an objection to local Labs and
partners doing their own sticks if the logo guidelines are respected.
if you have the possibility to send me one of the sticks, I'd
appreciate it, if not a good photo would be fine.

If you can, please choose sticks with LED activity indicators, this
will help users avoid losing data.

That said, this policy may change with the arrival of Sugar on a Stick
v1.0 in a few months, so it would be best to check back as we approach
that.

By the way, I'm looking for someone to help translate our press
release in Dutch, would you or anyone you know be able to help me with
that?

thanks a lot

Sean
Marketing Coordinator



On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:49 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Marten Vijn <info at martenvijn.nl> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 15:18 +0100, Sean DALY wrote:
>>> 5. First 100 SoaS Sugar Labs branded USB sticks
>>> Little advancement on this from me, I'm only too aware the timeframe
>>> is shrinking but I am very occupied with the media launch, I will try
>>> to move forward on choosing a supplier this weekend. I don't have the
>>> purple-background inverted logo mockup from Christian yet, but he is
>>> also working hard on the media launch...
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>> I have been flashing about 30 drives/sd cards now....and I ordered 30
>> more.
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>> And I got sponsoring for 20's sticks now for my project.
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>> I checked to get branded sticks. but it more expensive. I is a lot
>> cheaper to buy cheapest sticks you can find and brand these manually.
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>> To brand sticks these logo's could be used:
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>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Image:Logo_alt_1.png
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>> or for small sticks/sd card
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>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/thumb/7/71/Logo_alt_2.png/240px-Logo_alt_2.png
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>> Would it be an idea to support local sellers / supporters with stickers
>> to put on these stick/cards? In this way local group can have thier
>> branded sticks.
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>> If this is a good idea I could make it proposal.
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>> However I can imagian SugarLas wants it own branded/fabriked sticks to
>> keep thing more control. (I that case I would like order a couple.)
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> We will have to explore this further.
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> But I don't believe Sugar Labs is interested in controlling any thing:(
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> Instead, Sugar Labs would like to leverage the Sugar and Sugar Labs
> brands as 'marks of quality' so that when our partners, like you, sell
> products, their customers know they are getting quality educational
> products.
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> This will require some degree of control to limit the mis-use of sugar
> in substandard products.
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> david
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>> Just let me know,
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>> 2ct,
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>> Marten Vijn
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>> http://martenvijn.nl
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>> http://wifisoft.org
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