Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel, Greenfeld)

2015-03-19 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Sean I think we are on the same page. The model of deployments (outside of those nationally sponsored) has been a sponsor in the developed world has supplied laptops to a school in the developing world. Sugar must grow in the developed world market to continue the flow of sponsors which

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel, Greenfeld)

2015-03-19 Thread Sean DALY
Hi Tony, I for one certainly don't feel Sugar is only for children in developed countries. I believe Sugar offers benefits for all children. I do think that widespread use of Sugar in developed countries would encourage its use in the developing world, for several reasons. One of these is the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-03-18 Thread Sam P.
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

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-03-18 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Thanks Sam. I never read that. Have good points. Gonzalo On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Sam P. sam.parkins...@gmail.com wrote: I just found this interesting powerpoint from a few years ago. Slide 25 is basically a summary of this discussion:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-03-18 Thread 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

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-03-18 Thread Sean DALY
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

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel, Greenfeld)

2015-03-18 Thread Walter Bender
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

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel, Greenfeld)

2015-03-18 Thread Tony Anderson
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

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-03-14 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Thanks Sameer, very good points, a few comments/questions below On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Interesting thread. I'll reply to Lionel's post, but my reply is more of my own set of ideas and understanding. Putting on my business school researcher hat:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-03-13 Thread Sameer Verma
Interesting thread. I'll reply to Lionel's post, but my reply is more of my own set of ideas and understanding. Putting on my business school researcher hat: 1) The eventual goal of this project should be to influence the adoption of Sugar across the world. A person's attitude, combined with

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-28 Thread Sora Edwards-Thro
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Gonzalo Odiard godi...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Thanks Sora for sharing. We are working in a questionnaire to get more information from the local deployments. If you agree, we can send it to you to get more information from Haiti deployments. Somehow missed

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread Sora Edwards-Thro
-france.org; sam...@greenfeld.org Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld) On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 03:31:50PM +1100, James Cameron wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:20:02PM -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: On February 25, 2015 at 3:09 PM James Cameron qu

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 08:13:04PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: One other thing I should mention about some Sugar Activities… some of them really lack color. [...] This was possibly the design decision to support the colourless display of the XO laptop when used outdoors, as well as colour

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
@lists.sugarlabs.org; lio...@olpc-france.org; sam...@greenfeld.org Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld) On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 03:31:50PM +1100, James Cameron wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:20:02PM -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: On February 25, 2015 at 3:09 PM

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:40:17 -0500 Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld) From: s...@unleashkids.org To: cbige...@hotmail.com CC: qu...@laptop.org; m...@jvonau.ca; h...@laptop.org; i...@lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org; lio...@olpc-france.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Thanks Sora for sharing. We are working in a questionnaire to get more information from the local deployments. If you agree, we can send it to you to get more information from Haiti deployments. Gonzalo On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Sora Edwards-Thro s...@unleashkids.org wrote: I just got

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread Dan Tenason
Friday, February 27, 2015 2:07 PM -03:00 from Gonzalo Odiard godi...@sugarlabs.org: Thanks Samuel for start this public discussion. I share some of your concerns, and agree with your points. I think we agree web activities is the way to move forward. We started to work on that  for Sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
The problem with partners is that any partner who has established a history of making good decision will ask the same question Mr. Greenfeld asked to start this thread. If they get the same response Dr. Bender gave Mr. Greenfeld they take their money and go back home. Several individuals

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-25 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 03:19:18PM -0500, Sora Edwards-Thro wrote: Here's a table Martin Dluhos generated of the start-up times on XO-1s for different OS versions. It influenced our decision-making in Haiti (we have a customized version of 12.1.0); I don't know what they decided in Nepal,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-25 Thread Sora Edwards-Thro
Thanks for the fact-checking, James. Sorry I didn't correctly attribute credit to you, Gonzalo. On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:33 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 03:19:18PM -0500, Sora Edwards-Thro wrote: Here's a table Martin Dluhos generated of the start-up

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-25 Thread Sora Edwards-Thro
I just got started with all of this in 2013, so my relationship with the project is very different from many others on this list. I'm also not a programmer. So this is just my perspective as a coordinator with schools using XOs in Haiti. I'm going to tackle the below item-by-item; looking forward

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-25 Thread James Cameron
No worries. My small amount of work on the XO-1 has made improvements, but more is needed. I hope Sugar Labs and community developers can continue to work on these performance problems. If there's anything at OLPC blocking that, please let me know. Samuel's build of 14.1.0 is suitable for

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-25 Thread Nick Doiron
I've worked with the project for some time, as a developer, teacher, and teacher-trainer. There have been triumphs and setbacks in the past, but I can't escape this observation: when people have a choice, they choose not to use Sugar. For many schools, they have what was donated and there is no

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-25 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 25.02.2015, at 13:22, Nick Doiron ndoi...@mapmeld.com wrote: I've worked with the project for some time, as a developer, teacher, and teacher-trainer. There have been triumphs and setbacks in the past, but I can't escape this observation: when people have a choice, they choose not to