"activities" is a common term too... it works because we are subbing it for "applications".
I think this is a good track because it shows we see our users differents than usual "users" Sean On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:49 PM, David Farning <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
