It's an excellent point; after all, Mingoville http://www.mingoville.com/ based in Denmark I believe claims over 1 million users, 100+ activities for children to practice English.
But there's another facet: dominant languages such as English, Spanish, French, put pressure on minority languages. Sugar has a role to play supporting many languages, not just in the interface, but in content. There have been suggestions in the past that we position Sugar as a great way to learn English, and indeed it can be (especially in a connected environment), but I feel English should not be privileged over local languages. My concern is the timing... Sebastian is under pressure for a December 8th launch and will need help collating books. The Blueberry launch is also threatened by sugaronastick.com, which as long as it is up will create confusion. Sean On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Yama Ploskonka <[email protected]> wrote: > sorry to keep the off-topic on topic, :-), but in my experience the > possibility to access stuff in English is one of the biggest calls for Sugar > use, especially maybe in non-English places. > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Carlo Falciola <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Sebastian, >> really have absolutely no issue regarding the provider. >> Once I realized that in that site there weren't non EN titles you I just >> made a quick Google-search for multilingual ebooks sites. >> >> My point is limitated to suggesting to evaluate the opportunity to put a >> little sample in more that one language. >> >> ciao carlo >> >> --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas <[email protected]> ha scritto: >> >> > Da: Sebastian Dziallas <[email protected]> >> > Oggetto: Re: R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry) >> > A: "Carlo Falciola" <[email protected]> >> > Cc: "iaep" <[email protected]> >> > Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 16:22 >> > Yes, actually, I was maybe a bit too >> > quick with this. :) >> > >> > This e-mail was supposed to be about discussing good sample >> > titles, not >> > about announcing anything with regard to the book provider >> > we were >> > using. Anyway, thanks for the link! I'll look into it... >> > >> > Cheers, >> > --Sebastian >> > >> > Carlo Falciola wrote: >> > > I dont know (yet, Ill check soon) about quality of >> > ePub version, but (http://manybooks.net/) seems to have >> > books from several different languages... >> > > Maybe one out of a selection of >> > languages would make sense... >> > > >> > > ciao carlo >> > > >> > > >> > > --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas<[email protected]> >> > ha scritto: >> > > >> > >> Da: Sebastian Dziallas<[email protected]> >> > >> Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick >> > (Blueberry) >> > >> A: "SoaS"<[email protected]>, >> > "iaep"<[email protected]> >> > >> Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 15:36 >> > >> Hi all, >> > >> >> > >> as you may know, we're going to ship some selected >> > e-books >> > >> in the >> > >> Journal of the Blueberry release. For providing >> > >> high-quality e-books >> > >> instead of simple texts (as well as fo technical >> > >> simplicity), we're >> > >> going to use e-books from epubBooks >> > (www.epubbooks.com)! >> > >> >> > >> Right now, I've just included Alice in Wonderland >> > (which >> > >> comes with nice >> > >> images in this edition), but I encourage everybody >> > to go >> > >> through the >> > >> catalog on that website and to point out >> > favorites. >> > >> >> > >> Thanks to Sayamindu for pointing to that site! :) >> > >> >> > >> --Sebastian >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> > >> SoaS mailing list >> > >> [email protected] >> > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
