Maybe it is time to pursue the card stack idea... I had circulated a link a month or so back. If Christian could design a template, we could let the community start making cards. We could then have various paths through the card decks for different audiences.
-walter On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Caroline Meeks <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Maybe the 0.84 refresh of the Sugar manual is an opportunity to address >> this. > > I'd aim for a card or a 1 pager that helps you with your first time with > Sugar. >> >> >> -walter >> >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Caroline Meeks >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thats not how Sugar was designed to be used, but it is the conditions >> >> under >> >> which it is usually evaluated. I think this is one of our marketing >> >> challenges. >> >> >> > >> > +1 >> > >> > I was flummoxed my first 20 minutes with Sugar a year ago (How do I >> > save/retrieve a file?) >> > >> > Actually, I was also flummoxed in 1986 when I first used a Mac (How do >> > I get a directory listing? Where's the CLI?) >> > >> > And in 1982 when I first used a PC (What am I supposed to type at this >> > prompt?) >> > >> > But - I was *not* when I used my very first computer, a colorful >> > Commodore VIC-20 which booted directly into BASIC. That's because the >> > machine came with perhaps the friendliest little blue beginner's >> > manual I have ever used (sample: 'Hit the "Return" key a couple of >> > times to clear it out'). >> > >> > Food for thought.... >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Marketing mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org > > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > [email protected] > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
