2009/3/1 Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]>: > 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? > I'll follow up, make the initial outreach, and try to find out who within Sugar Labs they will best relate.
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