[Marketing] Fwd: Sugar on a Stick - Article

[Walter Bender]

Maybe we should encourage every Sugar community member to write a
letter to their local paper.

-walter

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> Reply from my local paper.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Schuler, Rory <rschuler at cnc.com>
> Date: Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:13 AM
> Subject: RE: Sugar on a Stick - Article
> To: Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com>
>
>
> Caroline, Would you be willing/able to write a first-person piece on the
> endeavor? Since you're pretty much the local hook, I think that would be the
> best way to approach it. Please let me know.
>
>
> Rory Schuler
> Editor
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> ________________________________
> From: solutiongrove at gmail.com [mailto:solutiongrove at gmail.com] On Behalf Of
> Caroline Meeks
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:32 PM
> To: Winchester Star (News)
> Subject: Sugar on a Stick - Article
>
> Dear Mr. Schuler,
>
> I am a Winchester resident (49 Thornberry Road) and I am involved in
> an education project for elementary school aged children with the nonprofit
> Sugar Labs
> foundation. Sugar Labs (http://www.sugarlabs.org) provides the free
> open source software environment used in the One Laptop per Child
> computer, designed in the Boston area and over a million of which have
> been distributed to kids in developing countries. Sugar Labs has
> created a version of the OLPC software called Sugar on a Stick
> (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick) which can run any PC
> (and many Macs too) from an ordinary thumbdrive.
> Sugar Labs and students from Harvard Graduate School of Education and Boston
> University are running a
> pilot at a Boston Public School in Allston and we need donations of used
> computers and sponsors for USB sticks. Any publicity would help our project
> enormously and we were
> hoping we could interest you in publishing an article about what's
> happening at the school - the teachers and learners are very excited!
>
> A recent BU journalism graduate wrote a piece on us and we have not
> yet placed it, perhaps it could be a starting point?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Caroline Meeks
>
> Details on the computer donations:  Email Caroline Meeks
> cmeeks at sugarlabs.org to arrange pickup. We are looking for Pentium 4 or
> better computers. We can only accept monitors less then 19" in size.
>
>
> --
> Caroline Meeks
> Solution Grove
> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
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