[Marketing] sugarlabs.org redesign

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Let's figure out that marketing strategy then? We are discussing 0.102
> features, putting the work items on that list won't guarantee they gets done
> but at least we will have a concrete idea of what would be required. New
> release not being marketable for I don't know how many years and no solution
> in sight is pretty bad situation to be in.
>
>
> On Thursday, 7 November 2013, Sean DALY wrote:
>>
>> Hi Daniel, we had a volunteer who came to the project to work on that, but
>> he gave up because of the lack of technical resources to assist - we asked
>> for help and no one was able to.

Well, actually, I had a Google Code In student do all the backend
programming last year. Waiting to populate and turn it live.

-walter

>>
>> I don't know anything about a git repository, or even if that would be
>> useful for what we need to do, but Christian Marc Schmidt who designed the
>> existing site worked out templates for the new site and has I believe
>> briefed Walter with a sandbox instance.
>>
>> A marketing study[1] done by MIT Sloan MarketLab students made excellent
>> recommendations, but as on several previous occasions, our requests to the
>> community for usable images/videos elicited little or no response.
>>
>> We could certainly create new images from scratch, but there's no budget
>> for that.
>>
>> The larger problem is the absence of a marketing strategy, we need to know
>> where we are going to communicate effectively. In particular, we need to
>> choose and implement how to offer Sugar tryout to teachers and journalists.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>> 1.http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team, see section MIT Sloan
>> MarketLab Study
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure I've seen people talking of an imminent sugarlabs.org
>>> website redesign a long time ago, but nothing seem to be changed. What is
>>> the status of that work? Also are the website sources somewhere in a git
>>> repository?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
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>>> Daniel Narvaez
>>>
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> Daniel Narvaez
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