<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>I think it's important to use some of the 10,000 $$ to maintain and push the marketing sector forward. Like the Social manager role i proposed. what do you guys think?<br><br>Samson<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: dave@lab6.com<br>Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 23:31:00 -0400<br>To: samuel@greenfeld.org<br>CC: marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org; walter.bender@gmail.com<br>Subject: Re: [Marketing] The End of Sugar (thought exercise)<br><br><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On 23 June 2016 at 22:01, Samuel Greenfeld <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samuel@greenfeld.org" target="_blank">samuel@greenfeld.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);">On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 8:55 PM, Dave Crossland </span><span dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);"> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div><div class="h5"><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><div class="ecxgmail_quote"><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><span>On 23 June 2016 at 10:31, Samuel Greenfeld <<a href="mailto:samuel@greenfeld.org" target="_blank">samuel@greenfeld.org</a>> wrote:<br> > Perhaps we should ask marketing to do a SWOT (Strengths Weaknesses<br> > Opportunities Threats) analysis.<br> <br> </span>Welcome to the marketing team. Please start a document and I'll add to it :)</blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Would you like me to start the document?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div><div class="h5"><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><div class="ecxgmail_quote"><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><span>> However we might not have enough funds for<br> > more than an online survey of current/past users and indirect friends of the<br> > project.<br> <br> </span>I already have survey listed in <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/2016_Goals" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/2016_Goals</a> :)<br> <br> If we had $10,000 to spend on "marketing," how would you spend it?</blockquote></div></div> </div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"> </blockquote><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;">Well given we seemed to have scared off Sugar's historical marketing expert, </blockquote><div><br></div><div>lol</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;">I have no idea what a fair usage of $10,000 would be, or how it might be subdivided.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>Fair enough. You said "we might not have enough funds for more than [something]" which implied to me that you had ideas for things we _could_ do with funding and were discounting them as out of the question, and I wanted you to not be shy about your ideas about how to use funds :) </div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;">Not everyone wants to work on Sugar like it is a tech startup with a brick on the accelerator and the brakes disconnected.</blockquote></div><div><div class="h5"></div></div><div><br></div><div>LOL :)</div><div><br></div><div>I said that it would be good to get Sugar back to where it was, not that we should seek venture capital and pursue user growth at the expense of all other metrics. </div><div><br></div><div>I am confused why you would say "stop the bleeding!" and a moment later say you don't want to get Sugar back to where it was. </div> </div></div> <br>_______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing</div> </div></body> </html>