On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 to Learners.
I prefer learners to users also. But i wonder, will this result in overloading the common term learners with our own specific meaning? is that good or just confusing? david > Regarding your questions, let's go with three instead of two and let's > start with the positive: > > * What do you like about Sugar? > > * What concerns do you have about Sugar? > > * How can we, the Sugar community, overcome these concerns? > > -walter > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: >> Gary C. Martin made an excellent observation: if we have "Activities" >> instead of "applications", shouldn't we have "Doers" instead of >> "users"? >> >> I fully agree we shouldn't have "users" of Sugar Activities. I like >> "Doers", but I think "Learners" may roll off the tongue more easily. >> Suggestions please. >> >> >> On a related subject: I want feedback from our Learners (Doers) using >> the XO-1. We've discussed this before, but following SugarCamp where >> we concluded with a round-robin of our 3-/3+ takeaways (what didn't >> work, what worked) I had an idea watching a survivor show on >> television... to set up a rope bridge, the hikers threw a small wire >> across the rapids, attached to a thicker rope which they then used to >> make a bridge with two other ropes. So my idea is to start with a >> two-line survey of our Learners around the world: >> >> >> * What do you not like about Sugar? >> >> >> * What do you like about Sugar? >> >> >> >> Short, simple, to the point... easy to translate... a light payload >> for the difficult task of distributing/receiving a survey :-) >> >> Can we start with this "wire", and work our way up to a "bridge"? >> >> Could we ask the OLPC Corps Africa people for help, in parallel with >> their formal survey? I have heard they will have one, but I have no >> info about it. >> >> ideas please >> >> >> thanks >> >> Sean >> _______________________________________________ >> Marketing mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing >> > > > > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
