Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > 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.
I strongly agree with you. Who would like to get in conctact? -- // 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
