Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] idea for consolidated Sugar feedback + a new name for our users

2009-05-26 Thread Walter Bender
+1 to Learners.

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 sdaly...@gmail.com 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
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Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] idea for consolidated Sugar feedback + a new name for our users

2009-05-26 Thread Samuel Klein
Docs that don't use familiar language can be a turnoff.  'User' is a
familiar nuisance.  'Supporter' might also be apporpriate, since some
people who follow and care about sugar do not use it day to day and
are passing on the opinions of others, or their observation of others.

SJ

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:49 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org 
 wrote:
 On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com 
 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?

 I could see this causing confusion, though I agree in principle and
 hate the term user myself. Some good books on interaction design
 also discuss this unfortunate term, but fail to provide a better
 alternative.

 It might be acceptable to permit the term within the context of
 development (eg. in technical mailing lists, in bug reports, etc.),
 while strictly avoiding it in general purpose materials such as the
 website and in users manuals. When drafting the HIG, I carefully
 avoided this term, instead simply referring to kids or children,
 or using various pronouns when repeated reference to one of these
 unnamed children is needed.

 Eben

 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 sdaly...@gmail.com 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
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Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] idea for consolidated Sugar feedback + a new name for our users

2009-05-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
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On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 02:02:40PM -0400, Samuel Klein wrote:
Docs that don't use familiar language can be a turnoff.  'User' is a
familiar nuisance.  'Supporter' might also be apporpriate, since some
people who follow and care about sugar do not use it day to day and
are passing on the opinions of others, or their observation of others.

I really like the term Learners.  It indicates awareness - active 
participation.  The term Users to me is more related to Consumers 
(not the word itself, but its use in my part of the world).

I agree that there are others involved in Sugar than Developers and 
Learners.  But as I see it, the examples raised - Supporters - are not 
Users either :-P

I do not consider myself a Sugar Developer, and not a Sugar Learner.  I 
consider myself a Sugar Packager and (as representative of Debian) a 
Sugar Distributor.


Oh, and while we are at it: I suggest calling it Authors instead of 
Developers.  Developers tend to emphasize the techies which is quite 
unfair especially to a project like Sugar: Authors include both code 
Programmers, graphics/interface Designers and content 
Writers/Composers/Illustrators.


Authors → Packagers → Distributors → Deployers → Administrators → 
Learners

(arrgh - too long to fit a single line :-( )

...and alongside all of those are Supporters, which includes 
Fundraisers, Managers and Inspirators.


Regards,

  - Jonas

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Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] idea for consolidated Sugar feedback + a new name for our users

2009-05-26 Thread Sean DALY
Sugar, to me, represents the courage of starting from scratch to build
the best learning environment for kids there is. With the associated
risks - of being different, being in unfamiliar territory, doing
things in untraditional ways.

I can't bring myself to call my kids users of Sugar. Yet, a name for
their role when they are doing/making Sugar is appropriate... they
have a place, they have a colored symbol of themselves... a shared
experience with others who are there to do something very similar.

We find it normal to class people by what they do: Chess players
practice openings. Knitters often prefer purl stitching.
Bicyclists often wear bright colors to be more visible. In each of
these cases, the role of the person is in some way defined by the
necessary objects - Chess players with a chessboard and pieces (and
usually another chess player), knitters with needles and yarn,
bicyclists with their bikes. It's obvious that these labels are
reductive, but what is gained is that they are precise - they are
descriptive in a way users can't be, it's too generic.

The idea behind users is to be all-inclusive, since computers are
general-purpose data processing machines. I would submit that Sugar is
a special case because its users are children... and I appreciate
Jonas when he says that we grownups don't need our roles to fit into
traditional descriptors either. That's outside-the-box thinking in my
view.

To Eben - on the contrary, I think it's important to publicly
complement our Activities (capital A since collaborative applications
specific to Sugar) with Learners (capital L since users with a role
specific to Sugar). I don't think this nomenclature will confuse
anyone, but instead clarify Sugar's positioning and differentiation.
Teachers will understand it right away I think.

Sean







On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote:
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 On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 02:02:40PM -0400, Samuel Klein wrote:
Docs that don't use familiar language can be a turnoff.  'User' is a
familiar nuisance.  'Supporter' might also be apporpriate, since some
people who follow and care about sugar do not use it day to day and
are passing on the opinions of others, or their observation of others.

 I really like the term Learners.  It indicates awareness - active
 participation.  The term Users to me is more related to Consumers
 (not the word itself, but its use in my part of the world).

 I agree that there are others involved in Sugar than Developers and
 Learners.  But as I see it, the examples raised - Supporters - are not
 Users either :-P

 I do not consider myself a Sugar Developer, and not a Sugar Learner.  I
 consider myself a Sugar Packager and (as representative of Debian) a
 Sugar Distributor.


 Oh, and while we are at it: I suggest calling it Authors instead of
 Developers.  Developers tend to emphasize the techies which is quite
 unfair especially to a project like Sugar: Authors include both code
 Programmers, graphics/interface Designers and content
 Writers/Composers/Illustrators.


 Authors → Packagers → Distributors → Deployers → Administrators →
 Learners

 (arrgh - too long to fit a single line :-( )

 ...and alongside all of those are Supporters, which includes
 Fundraisers, Managers and Inspirators.


 Regards,

  - Jonas

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Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] idea for consolidated Sugar feedback + a new name for our users

2009-05-26 Thread David Farning
2009/5/26 Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com:
 Sugar, to me, represents the courage of starting from scratch to build
 the best learning environment for kids there is. With the associated
 risks - of being different, being in unfamiliar territory, doing
 things in untraditional ways.

 I can't bring myself to call my kids users of Sugar. Yet, a name for
 their role when they are doing/making Sugar is appropriate... they
 have a place, they have a colored symbol of themselves... a shared
 experience with others who are there to do something very similar.

 We find it normal to class people by what they do: Chess players
 practice openings. Knitters often prefer purl stitching.
 Bicyclists often wear bright colors to be more visible. In each of
 these cases, the role of the person is in some way defined by the
 necessary objects - Chess players with a chessboard and pieces (and
 usually another chess player), knitters with needles and yarn,
 bicyclists with their bikes. It's obvious that these labels are
 reductive, but what is gained is that they are precise - they are
 descriptive in a way users can't be, it's too generic.

 The idea behind users is to be all-inclusive, since computers are
 general-purpose data processing machines. I would submit that Sugar is
 a special case because its users are children... and I appreciate
 Jonas when he says that we grownups don't need our roles to fit into
 traditional descriptors either. That's outside-the-box thinking in my
 view.

 To Eben - on the contrary, I think it's important to publicly
 complement our Activities (capital A since collaborative applications
 specific to Sugar) with Learners (capital L since users with a role
 specific to Sugar). I don't think this nomenclature will confuse
 anyone, but instead clarify Sugar's positioning and differentiation.
 Teachers will understand it right away I think.


Sounds reasonable.

david

 Sean







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 On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 02:02:40PM -0400, Samuel Klein wrote:
Docs that don't use familiar language can be a turnoff.  'User' is a
familiar nuisance.  'Supporter' might also be apporpriate, since some
people who follow and care about sugar do not use it day to day and
are passing on the opinions of others, or their observation of others.

 I really like the term Learners.  It indicates awareness - active
 participation.  The term Users to me is more related to Consumers
 (not the word itself, but its use in my part of the world).

 I agree that there are others involved in Sugar than Developers and
 Learners.  But as I see it, the examples raised - Supporters - are not
 Users either :-P

 I do not consider myself a Sugar Developer, and not a Sugar Learner.  I
 consider myself a Sugar Packager and (as representative of Debian) a
 Sugar Distributor.


 Oh, and while we are at it: I suggest calling it Authors instead of
 Developers.  Developers tend to emphasize the techies which is quite
 unfair especially to a project like Sugar: Authors include both code
 Programmers, graphics/interface Designers and content
 Writers/Composers/Illustrators.


 Authors → Packagers → Distributors → Deployers → Administrators →
 Learners

 (arrgh - too long to fit a single line :-( )

 ...and alongside all of those are Supporters, which includes
 Fundraisers, Managers and Inspirators.


 Regards,

  - Jonas

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Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] idea for consolidated Sugar feedback + a new name for our users

2009-05-26 Thread Sean DALY
We might want to simplify the language a bit for kids... I'm not sure
kids would be able to offer a coherent answer to the third question,
even if they know who we are :-)
(note to self: put photo of community in as easter egg?)

How about wishlist fishing?

What would you like to do with Sugar that you can't do today?
or...
What should the people who make Sugar do next?

(recognizing that understandably, many kids will likely bring up
hardware not just software and to the latter question we will get
answers like take a long rest after programming so hard)

Sean


On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
 +1 to Learners.

 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 sdaly...@gmail.com 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
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Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] idea for consolidated Sugar feedback + a new name for our users

2009-05-26 Thread Eben Eliason
2009/5/26 Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com:
 Sugar, to me, represents the courage of starting from scratch to build
 the best learning environment for kids there is. With the associated
 risks - of being different, being in unfamiliar territory, doing
 things in untraditional ways.

 I can't bring myself to call my kids users of Sugar. Yet, a name for
 their role when they are doing/making Sugar is appropriate... they
 have a place, they have a colored symbol of themselves... a shared
 experience with others who are there to do something very similar.

 We find it normal to class people by what they do: Chess players
 practice openings. Knitters often prefer purl stitching.
 Bicyclists often wear bright colors to be more visible. In each of
 these cases, the role of the person is in some way defined by the
 necessary objects - Chess players with a chessboard and pieces (and
 usually another chess player), knitters with needles and yarn,
 bicyclists with their bikes. It's obvious that these labels are
 reductive, but what is gained is that they are precise - they are
 descriptive in a way users can't be, it's too generic.

 The idea behind users is to be all-inclusive, since computers are
 general-purpose data processing machines. I would submit that Sugar is
 a special case because its users are children... and I appreciate
 Jonas when he says that we grownups don't need our roles to fit into
 traditional descriptors either. That's outside-the-box thinking in my
 view.

 To Eben - on the contrary, I think it's important to publicly
 complement our Activities (capital A since collaborative applications
 specific to Sugar) with Learners (capital L since users with a role
 specific to Sugar). I don't think this nomenclature will confuse
 anyone, but instead clarify Sugar's positioning and differentiation.
 Teachers will understand it right away I think.

Yeah, I buy that.

Another reasonable term (in keeping with Activities) would be Actor,
but unfortunately that's already a term overloaded in a number of
ways, both in the specific sense of the thespian, or in a wholly
generic sense of an actor in a system (which has pretty negative
connotations with regards to our Learners!). I think it will be clear
enough that the term Learner relates most directly to children, but by
proxy to all other individuals engaging the Sugar UI, such as
teachers, developers, etc., so I like it.

It might take some getting used to, though, and it still might be
friendlier in some cases to say When a child does x, the interface
does y instead of When a Learner does x, the interface does y. But
I can see Learner having god applications, and particularly in the
aggregate: The Sugar community wants Learners to grow through their
interaction with Sugar...

Eben


 Sean







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 On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 02:02:40PM -0400, Samuel Klein wrote:
Docs that don't use familiar language can be a turnoff.  'User' is a
familiar nuisance.  'Supporter' might also be apporpriate, since some
people who follow and care about sugar do not use it day to day and
are passing on the opinions of others, or their observation of others.

 I really like the term Learners.  It indicates awareness - active
 participation.  The term Users to me is more related to Consumers
 (not the word itself, but its use in my part of the world).

 I agree that there are others involved in Sugar than Developers and
 Learners.  But as I see it, the examples raised - Supporters - are not
 Users either :-P

 I do not consider myself a Sugar Developer, and not a Sugar Learner.  I
 consider myself a Sugar Packager and (as representative of Debian) a
 Sugar Distributor.


 Oh, and while we are at it: I suggest calling it Authors instead of
 Developers.  Developers tend to emphasize the techies which is quite
 unfair especially to a project like Sugar: Authors include both code
 Programmers, graphics/interface Designers and content
 Writers/Composers/Illustrators.


 Authors → Packagers → Distributors → Deployers → Administrators →
 Learners

 (arrgh - too long to fit a single line :-( )

 ...and alongside all of those are Supporters, which includes
 Fundraisers, Managers and Inspirators.


 Regards,

  - Jonas

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Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] idea for consolidated Sugar feedback + a new name for our users

2009-05-26 Thread Caroline Meeks
Another thought is Kid and Grown-Up.  If we called our users Kids it would
emphasis that we are always thinking about our age range when we work on
Sugar.  We are building a tool especially for kids and the grownups
(teachers, parents etc.) who help them learn.

2009/5/26 Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com

 Sugar, to me, represents the courage of starting from scratch to build
 the best learning environment for kids there is. With the associated
 risks - of being different, being in unfamiliar territory, doing
 things in untraditional ways.

 I can't bring myself to call my kids users of Sugar. Yet, a name for
 their role when they are doing/making Sugar is appropriate... they
 have a place, they have a colored symbol of themselves... a shared
 experience with others who are there to do something very similar.

 We find it normal to class people by what they do: Chess players
 practice openings. Knitters often prefer purl stitching.
 Bicyclists often wear bright colors to be more visible. In each of
 these cases, the role of the person is in some way defined by the
 necessary objects - Chess players with a chessboard and pieces (and
 usually another chess player), knitters with needles and yarn,
 bicyclists with their bikes. It's obvious that these labels are
 reductive, but what is gained is that they are precise - they are
 descriptive in a way users can't be, it's too generic.

 The idea behind users is to be all-inclusive, since computers are
 general-purpose data processing machines. I would submit that Sugar is
 a special case because its users are children... and I appreciate
 Jonas when he says that we grownups don't need our roles to fit into
 traditional descriptors either. That's outside-the-box thinking in my
 view.

 To Eben - on the contrary, I think it's important to publicly
 complement our Activities (capital A since collaborative applications
 specific to Sugar) with Learners (capital L since users with a role
 specific to Sugar). I don't think this nomenclature will confuse
 anyone, but instead clarify Sugar's positioning and differentiation.
 Teachers will understand it right away I think.

 Sean







 On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote:
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  On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 02:02:40PM -0400, Samuel Klein wrote:
 Docs that don't use familiar language can be a turnoff.  'User' is a
 familiar nuisance.  'Supporter' might also be apporpriate, since some
 people who follow and care about sugar do not use it day to day and
 are passing on the opinions of others, or their observation of others.
 
  I really like the term Learners.  It indicates awareness - active
  participation.  The term Users to me is more related to Consumers
  (not the word itself, but its use in my part of the world).
 
  I agree that there are others involved in Sugar than Developers and
  Learners.  But as I see it, the examples raised - Supporters - are not
  Users either :-P
 
  I do not consider myself a Sugar Developer, and not a Sugar Learner.  I
  consider myself a Sugar Packager and (as representative of Debian) a
  Sugar Distributor.
 
 
  Oh, and while we are at it: I suggest calling it Authors instead of
  Developers.  Developers tend to emphasize the techies which is quite
  unfair especially to a project like Sugar: Authors include both code
  Programmers, graphics/interface Designers and content
  Writers/Composers/Illustrators.
 
 
  Authors → Packagers → Distributors → Deployers → Administrators →
  Learners
 
  (arrgh - too long to fit a single line :-( )
 
  ...and alongside all of those are Supporters, which includes
  Fundraisers, Managers and Inspirators.
 
 
  Regards,
 
   - Jonas
 
  - --
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