Sean DALY wrote: > You've mentioned how the website could be improved - the "fine print". > When you look at the Sugar on a Stick page, what do you think it could > express better to guide inexperienced users? The single biggest > barrier we face is installation fear - this is how Windows keeps its > marketshare (with help from proprietary file formats), and why > GNU/Linux desktops have so much difficulty breaking out. Sugar on a > Stick sidesteps the problem by not touching the hard disk, but does > indeed require system-specific BIOS fiddling.
In response to this, and DancesWithCars autorun html point, I can see possible progress in this direction- a) autorun html. Simple to add technically. I'd opt for pure open source but possibly less compatable simple autorun technique, as opposed to using the various less-free and often closed source autorun helpers. b) the content of the html to be autoran- obviously the sky is the limit, and something marketing is particularly suited for. To the extent that technical information should be contained, there is the LiveDistro wikipedia page, which would be included, as well as a layer above it translated/shrunk into a quickstart version targeted at average parents/teachers. c) other low hanging fruit windows FOSS. Firefox seems worth it if you've got the space. But more importantly qemu, or whatever the best open source windows virtualization solution is (qemu/virtualbox/?). I.e. the webpage should include simple instructions for launching that virtualizaiton targeted at the CD/USB that contains it. Now, these are all old ideas I brought up with Fedora years ago, but they just aren't that interested, perhaps due to demographics. I.e. sugarlabs demographics would seem to benefit more from these things IMO. The reason in my own fedora derivative I haven't spent much time on (C) for instance, is because I personally just really don't care that much about windows. One thing that scares me is how fragile qemu for win32 sounded. It looks like virtualbox is gpl and available for win32 but I haven't tried it. As such, I think it would be a good idea to do (C), but not really advertise it as anything but experimental for at least a year. Also, since pygtk appears available for windows ala liveusb-creator, perhaps the best in the long term would be an autorun program that is just a simple pygtk app that can either launch information via a portable firefox install pointed at the html on the stick/cd, or launch the cd/stick virtually under qemu/virtualbox. Or enter a chat session with sugarlabs techsupport. Or launch liveusb-creator (in a mode that pulls the data from the stick if that isn't yet supported. I.e. stick replication) Anyway, thats where I see the lowest hanging fruit for the longterm solution to the problem end-users grokking the whole experience upon first introduction to the product. $0.02... -dmc _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
