[Marketing] idea for funding /stories

[Marten Vijn]

On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 01:08 -0500, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote:
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> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>         Hi Marten
>         
>         Our hope is that a local Sugar Lab can develop in every
>         country... 
>         
>         although one of us could send a CD this time, we would
>         certainly need.
> 
> An experience with the Colombian Sugar Lab in this regard is that in
> all the presentations, conferences and meetings,
> we try to give at least some sugar CDs..right now we are in the
> initial phase of ''showing'' Sugar to everyone and trying to separate
> it from the XO..it's unfortunate but there is a complete lack of
> knowledge (in Colombia) of both OLPC and Sugar but this lack of
> knowledge is worst on Sugar, we are trying to change that fact.
> 
> Also we hope that future sugar labs in the region (maybe Chile,
> Brazil, Peru and Uruguay) can begin to do this work.
> 
Hi Rafael,

Maybe we can setup the iicd to work with us.

http://www.iicd.org/

IICD is a non-profit foundation that specialises in information and
communication technologies (ICT) as a tool for development.


They have funding, traveling manpower. They believe in train the
trainer.  

I 'll be more to happy to work with them (training advise).

I want to help bootstrapping this, but then leave the chain.
I think request from the countries could connected directly to them, if
they yes. Having request from Local Sugar Labs is much stronger than me
presenting a good idea. (and as always both have to be done.)

How could we setup this up? Shall I give them a phonecall?
And do a hand over to you?

kind regards,
Marten


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>         
>         a lot of funding to handle the logistics of mailing to
>         everyone who
>         wants one. I agree that the Ubuntu model (ShipIt,
>         https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ FAQ:
>         http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/shipit-faq) is a great way to
>         bypass
>         bandwidth limitations, but that model requires very
>         significant
>         funding (not to mention lots of volunteers to stuff envelopes
>         and
>         manage order taking, tracking, shipments, customs forms,
>         reporting,
>         etc). You may recall that Mark Shuttleworth personally
>         financed
>         Canonical with millions of rand of his own money and placed US
>         $10m in
>         the Ubuntu Foundation in 2005.
>         
>         Most African countries, even the poorest ones, have IT firms
>         and
>         computer-equipped companies, if we can find people in those
>         countries
>         interested in assisting Sugar Labs we will have a more
>         scalable model.
>         Canonical is getting a handle on ShipIt costs (which are
>         confidential)
>         by sending boxes of CDs to Loco teams for local distribution,
>         e.g.
>         http://jonathancarter.co.za/2009/05/07/ubuntu-za-loco-discs-have-arrived/
>         
>         We would need to look long and hard at a decision to do a
>         shipit-like
>         organization, especially as an ongoing commitment. The speed
>         of Sugar
>         development means most CDs woud probably be swiftly obsolete.
>         I do
>         think however that a targeted mailing of branded CDs to
>         journalists
>         and education ministries/departments would be an excellent
>         promotion
>         tactic.
>         
>         Sean
>         
>         
>         
>         On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Marten Vijn
>         <info at martenvijn.nl> wrote:
>         > >From private conservation:
>         >
>         > A man in africa wants to use Sugar,
>         > due a slow uplink the download will cost
>         > 8 hours.
>         >
>         > - gzipping the iso save 10 Mb only.
>         >
>         >
>         > Maybe there is a funder interested to
>         > burn cd and off them to delevoping contries.
>         >
>         > Like ubuntu does.
>         >
>         > kind regards,
>         > Marten
>         >
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