Thanks Tim,
That is an excellent suggestion! With the tight budget constraints we have
right now, it is easy to get caught up in the "free" part. Focusing on the
quality programs available with the $0 cost to "sweeten the deal" sounds like a
good approach. I'll sleep on it and do a revision tomorrow.
Caryl
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 16:38:25 +1300
Subject: Re: [IAEP] Suggestions Needed!
From: paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz
To: cbige...@hotmail.com
CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-g...@laptop.org
On 9 October 2010 12:14, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi Folks...
I'm working on the abstract for my proposed presentation at CUE 2011 in Palm
Springs in March. The filing deadline is Monday, but I was hoping to put it in
tomorrow morning since we will be traveling Sunday. They asked for an outline
of the presentation in the abstract, that is why it is in that form. I want to
focus mainly on Sugar and SoaS for this talk but still put in stuff about OLPC
and volunteering.
My main suggestion would be to change the focus from "free educational
software", e.g. no cost, to the benefits of the Sugar Learning Platform and the
other packages you're highlighting as quality educational tools in and of
themselves. I don't know if this makes sense, but I feel that promoting free
software as no cost cheapens it to a degree.
Tim
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