[Marketing] idea for funding /stories

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

Hi Marten

i think it would be a great opportunity for Sugar Labs co and other Local
Labs to work with iicd,

i think you know them better and you can begin the talks,
if they need a proposal of some kind we can work it out.

so if you call them and pass them to us it would be great,


Thanks!.
Rafael Ortiz


On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Marten Vijn <info at martenvijn.nl> wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 01:08 -0500, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >         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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