I just found this interesting powerpoint from a few years ago. Slide 25 is
basically a summary of this discussion:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=vpid=sitessrcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxtYXJrZXRsYWJzdWdhcnxneDo0Y2U3ODFjZDczMmU1Mjlh
Thanks,
Sam
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 7:16 AM Gonzalo Odiard
Talking about good marketing, daniel g. siegel shared this today:
http://www.dgsiegel.net/news/2015_03_18-lego's_1981_ad_campaign
I think we should look at this creation moments in kids using Sugar,
and not limit that to programming only. There are a lot of creative,
wonderful,
and happy people
cc'ing the Marketing list - the one everyone forgets as soon as they
discuss marketing.
The MarketLab study we worked on back then confirmed what we already knew -
that Sugar's websites did not accompany teachers interested in Sugar, and
that Sugar absolutely needed a simple installer. They also
The recent posts on the Future of Sugar have been insightful. Mr Daly's
comments on marketing have been particularly poignant. Both OLPC and Sugar Labs
have been calling for more money, more developers, more time to solve their
problems. Both organizations have suffered due to a lack of
Tony,
I don't agree with your characterization of Sugar. We've never built
in any assumptions about connectivity into the GUI, core system, or
core activities (even the web activities all run off disk. The
decision to migrate to GTK3 was made for technical reasons -- which
you may disagree with
Many Thanks James Testers !
From: James Cameron qu...@laptop.org
Date: Mar 18, 2015 10:11 PM
Subject: Announcing OLPC OS 13.2.3 for XO-1.75 and XO-4
To: de...@lists.laptop.org
G'day,
We're pleased to announce the release of OLPC OS 13.2.3 for XO-1.75
and XO-4.
It is Sugar 0.104 on Fedora
Sean,
I think you are getting at what I consider the heart of the problem.
SugarLabs sees Sugar as an alternative GUI for any computing device with
primary efficacy in the developed, internet-connected world. This goal
is understandable since the XOs have a limited life and so Sugar must be
Hi, Walter
This could lead to a most unproductive discussion. My main point is that
there should be focus on what new
educational opportunities we are offering to our users. I am saddened to
see such wonderful new activities developed using the web technology
which are totally unavailable to
