Advocacy meetings/2010-0224

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Wednesday February 24, 1500 EST

Agenda

see also the team agenda

• Request and require M! schedule :20 for a call when not everyone is free at once.
• Update Reviews of OLPC, with a focus on a summary report

Messaging and website

1. Communication and ticketing
   • Website tickets ==> Lynn
   • rt use for public contacts
   • adding an (800) number and corollaries / connection to existing support (POORLY INFORMED DEBATE)

2. Messaging update: hardware, software, people, timeline
   • Country updates: Peru sidebar, Haiti, Afghanistan, Nicaragua
   • Write an updated 10.1.0 manual (screenshot updates)
   • Updating/reviewing getting started guide / manuals: identify what's linking to each of the below. (POORLY INFORMED DEBATE)
     • Figuring out what v. of Sugar you're running (start screen, three dots?)
     • laptop.org/start (currently only Release 7.1.x)
     • laptop.org/manual (currently only Release 8.2.x)
     • 10.1.0 manual already updated by Seth Woodworth as part of the onboard Help Activity
     • release notes for each of the above major releases
   • XO-1.5 pages - story, specs, hardware. Separate XO-1, 2.0, 3.0 pages.

3. Newsletter text and site, OLPC:News update, stories needed by Friday, Feb 26
   • Public campaigns: preparing calls to action and donation language
   • News and other text for: Activities (revised for 10.1.0 activities), Nicaragua, Testing, archive design (Christian available again for this)

4. Website meeting recap: target audience priorities, input from Claudia, marketing v. other website uses.

Programs, projects, and countries

1. Ethiopia office plans: calendar, targets, upcoming events.
   • Getting reliable internet access
   • E. African MOU

2. Haiti plan of record: Corps and related FAQs. Almost 2000 XOs in Dallas. Will need triaging/refurbishing into working and parts machines.
   • planning a public note for March newsletter. gov schools for the displaced will house 20-40k children.
   • assessing Haitian uni students for corps teams

3. Other countries
   • Afghanistan: Calendar, timeline; funding/tech/content needs. Story development. Follow-up w/ Ebtihaj.
   • US and Canada

4. Shared materials and docs for outreach
   • Nia is gathering materials compiled by others to put online. A public weekly chat Thursdays @ 10:00 EST discusses this.

Coordination, overhead

1. Calendar (team cal) updates. Coordination with calendars for Corps (Gaza, Haiti, and other), Interns, summer interns @ 1CC, and our move upstairs.
   • Upcoming conferences and events (Roadshows, Tech & Advo & Int'l & other)

2. Causes & partnerships: update from Mike & Amy (Roberta to help w/CRM)
   • Intros to CCast, NGeo

3. Data gathered -- what do we have, what are we gathering
   • Web and communication metrics : site traffic, unique/returning visitors once a month.
   • Partnership metrics

4. Brand surveys
   • competitors, supporters, current brand position
   • near-term planning to strengthen the brand

Tasks and metrics

1. Process for making/reviewing announcements -- SJ/Kalil/Lynn meeting Thursday?
2. Wiki updates -- find an intern for accessibility and freshness
3. Tech updates -- find a tech intern for advo support. Push for weekly infrastructure changes.

New business

1. Upcoming announcements
   • Association announcement
   • Peru/1.5
   • Sugar 0.88 release & testing
   • 2 millionth activity download
   • 1.75 development underway (mid March)

2. OLPC Oceania update
   • UNICEF update, learning materials? 1.5 interest from David L.