[Sugar-devel] Blueberry launch prep - new eBooks wiki page - translators for PR?

[Sean DALY]

The press release was completed last night!

Can anyone help with German and Dutch?

We hope to get these up during the day Monday, and send to our
press/education contacts mailing list on Tuesday when PR Newswire will
carry it in English

thanks!

Sean


On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> Preparations are underway for the Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry
> release media launch which will take place on Tuesday the 8th at
> Netbook World Summit in Paris. More information in today's marketing
> meeting (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Meetings).
>
> In this holiday season, we want to remind teachers and parents that
> eBooks are not just pricey ebooks for fancy gadgets, but part of the
> open access to learning movement. We believe teachers and parents can
> benefit from step-by-step advice about getting eBooks into Sugar and
> so have started a wiki page called eBooks:
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/ebooks
>
> Can anyone help with this page? Please add links to sources of
> children's ebooks! preferably downloadable ebooks (readable offline).
> By launch date, we will want to have a section on this page describing
> (for newcomers to Sugar) how to find, obtain and read eBooks with
> Sugar's reading Activities. And, a section explaining common formats
> maybe even with conversion tips.
>
> If you have a suggestion for an illustrated eBook to serve as an
> example, please let us know, preferably with link and license
> information. We hope to be able to include some eBooks with Blueberry,
> if for licensing reasons we can't we will set up online access to
> those ebooks through the default Browse page.
>
> We will also need translators for our press release which will be
> ready on Thursday. Volunteers greatly appreciated, there is a direct
> correlation between the language versions of our PR available and the
> coverage we bring to Sugar Labs in that language.
>
> If we are lucky enough to make a media splash as we did last June
> (alas! never guaranteed), we will organize the news monitoring as
> follows: [SoaS in the news] in the subject line, sent to Marketing and
> SoaS lists, digested so no more than 4 messages per day (exceptions
> for broadcast media if any).
>
> We're excited about this launch and hope everyone can help spread the
> word about Sugar to teachers and parents!
>
> thanks
>
> Sean
> Sugar Labs Marketing Coordinator
>