Advocacy meetings/2010-0224

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Wednesday February 24, 1500 EST

Agenda

see also the team agenda

1. Messaging update: hardware, software, people, timeline
   • Country updates: Peru sidebar, Haiti, Afghanistan, Nicaragua
   • Updating http://laptop.org/start
   • XO 1.5 pages - story, specs, hardware. Separate XO 1, 2.0, 3.0 pages.
   • Website tickets ==> Lynn

2. 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)

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

4. Haiti plan of record: Corps and related FAQs. Almost 2000 XOs in Dallas.

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

6. 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)

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

8. Causes & partnerships: update from Mike & Amy (Roberta to help w/CRM)

TODO:

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 (for March)

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