On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:00, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> wrote: >> Or just a friend? >> >> http://www.qimo4kids.com/ > > I met them on the first day at SCaLE 7x last week, and the Earth > Treasury booth was opposite theirs in the exhibit hall for the next > two days. Their starting point was in discovering effective computer > uses for their autistic son. They like the idea that they can provide > Sugar to their clients.
I think that we should be establishing close contact with these groups of people that have some goals in common with us. Our market and the problems we try to solve are so vast, that there's more to win by working together than by ignoring the others or trying to "leave them behind". In many cases, the people deploying those competing environments will see a place where Sugar makes more sense for their users and may be interested to deploy it along, if we approach them in the correct way. To gain their interest, apart from the stronger points of Sugar itself, we have something very valuable: our localization community. Today, Sugar is translated to many languages that traditional software has never been translated to. We have language teams that are highly motivated by our educational goals and the prospect of improving education in their countries through technology. By offering this advantage to our "competitors", we not only improve their chances of meeting the same goals we have, but also grow our community and improve the visibility of the Sugar brand. Also, take into account that only a very small part of the Sugar platform is specific to Sugar itself. Most of it is shared with GNOME, Maemo, XFCE, etc. So if a competitor deploys XFCE on a slow MIPS-based netbook with little RAM and improves python, mozilla, gstreamer, gtk+ to run better and use less resources, Sugar also benefits from those improvements. Regards, Tomeu >> They even mention Sugar in the FAQ: >> http://www.qimo4kids.com/page/FAQ.aspx >> >> I'm downloading the ISO image to give it a try. >> >> -- >> // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ >> \X/ Sugar Labs - http://www.sugarlabs.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > > > > -- > Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name > And Children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. > http://earthtreasury.net/ (Ed Cherlin) > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
