[Marketing] idea for funding /stories
Marten Vijn
info at martenvijn.nl
Sat May 23 07:14:04 EDT 2009
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 10:32 -0500, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote:
> 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,
I 'll make the call next tuesday,
I 'll get back then.
Kind regards,
Marten
>
>
> 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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