Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Walter Bender > wrote: >> the real intention is >> "this is where you start" > > But... what's the target user for a "this is where you start"? Someone > who can make their own spin... there's only very f

[IAEP] Weekly Infrastructure Meeting Reminder

2010-03-23 Thread Stefan Unterhauser
Weekly Infrastructure meeting: Volunteer Infrastructure Gang (http://olpcorps.org/ ), Sugarlabs Infrastructure Team (http://sugarlabs.org/ ), and TreeHousers (http://me.etin.gs/treehouse/ ) #startmeeting #info Date: 2010-03-23 #info Time: 20:00 UTC (16:00 EST, 21:00 CET) #info Agenda: http://opene

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-23 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Martin is sooo right! A great focus would be in making SoaS very non-techie friendly so that average classroom teachers and parents can use it and share it with children. The number of tech-savvy teachers is pathetically small. The CUE (Computer Using Educators) conference early this month ha

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > the real intention is > "this is where you start" But... what's the target user for a "this is where you start"? Someone who can make their own spin... there's only very few of those target users, and they can help themselves (IOWs if there

Re: [IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
Below I agree with Tomeu, and would like to extend some points further... liberally snipped... On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > What the SoaS team could have said instead of "we'll ship half a dozen > activities", is "we have agreed on a criteria for activities that are > to

[IAEP] DHL and the One Laptop Per Child Foundation Partner to Deliver Thousands of Computers to Haitian School Children

2010-03-23 Thread Sean DALY
Waveplace re-donate initiative http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/dhl-and-the-one-laptop,1216311.shtml ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:37 AM, John Tierney wrote: > Hello All, > > In wanting to have Teachers and Developers try Sugar are best bet may be to > attack > this with a two-fold approach. The idea would be to give the prospective > Teacher/Deployer > Two SoaS-A stable version-say Strawberry explai