[Sugar-devel] picked up by [some media]

[Edward Cherlin]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm sorry Jonas, I had assumed the success of our launch (3700 SoaS
> downloads yesterday) would be of interest to all Sugar Labs
> contributors, in particular those who worked so hard on it. Does
> anyone else feel it's too much information? I would be worried though
> if any contributors weren't interested in coverage, especially in
> their countries.

I'm glad to see it. It may help that my mailer dedupes the feed, so I
don't see everything once per list.

> Although most coverage has been in the online tech press, we are
> reaching out to educational publications as well; it's only a matter
> of time until we get coverage from them as well, as news of our pilot
> projects comes online.

We still have to overcome the trade press bias against
non-advertisers. I'm discussing articles with IEEE Transactions on
Education.

> You may be aware that we are battling a perception of developers
> working too isolated from the classroom. Some critics have cited our
> absence of both a feedback loop

Guess they don't read Spanish. ^_^

> and consolidated data about
> large-scale Sugar use. These are valid concerns that merit our
> attention.

See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Academic_Papers and other pages that it links to.

> In my opinion, communicating the benefits of Sugar as a Facilitator is
> something any of us could be doing. Marten Vijn spoke passionately
> about direct action recently and he is absolutely right that each of
> us should be spreading news of Sugar.

I get a Google Alert on OLPC daily, and I'm about to sign up for one
on Sugar on a Stick. I frequently comment on the Web sites of articles
that Google brings to my attention.

> Negative press means that
> activity is more difficult;

Negative press is almost always an opportunity to get positive press,
except possibly at the Wall Street Journal. The Editorial Board seems
to think that Free Software is bad for business.

> positive press means it's easier. So I
> feel it is relevant to know if we are being covered fairly, if our
> message is getting out, or if we are being heavily criticized in areas
> we need improvement, or criticized unfairly based on false
> perceptions.

But I don't mind if we pull back the notices to Marketing. Is anybody
Wikifying these items?

> thanks
>
> Sean
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Jonas Smedegaard<dr at jones.dk> wrote:
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> > STOOOOP cross-posting marketing info, please!
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> > Great info, but not educational nor geeky, so irrelevant for those lists
> > IMHO.
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> >  - Jonas
> >
> > - --
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