On 12 Jan 2009, at 12:20, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 13:16, Erik Blankinship > <er...@mediamods.com> wrote: >> Perhaps I am stating the obvious, but the suggestions are very >> suggestive of >> Candyland. >> http://bp1.blogger.com/_GBSubG7_qbw/Rj_u39QVD7I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/YAZ3WRMdYbU/s1600-h/Candyland-1949.JPG >> >> http://www.mipo37.com/CandyLand.jpg > > The molasses swamp reminded me that we should do some more performance > work after the feature freeze.
LOL :-) +1 --G > > > Regards, > > Tomeu > >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Bert Freudenberg <b...@freudenbergs.de >> > >> wrote: >>> >>> I guess Bryan thinks of it as a play on "Mathland" (in Papert's >>> sense, >>> not the curriculum of the same name). The name of squeakland.org was >>> inspired by the same idea: >>> >>> "What would happen if children who can't do math grew up in >>> Mathland, >>> a place that is to math what France is to French?" --S.P. >>> >>> Also see >>> >>> http://www.kusasa.org/background/mathland/mathland.html >>> >>> - Bert - >>> >>> On 12.01.2009, at 06:36, Wade Brainerd wrote: >>> >>>> I personally prefer 'Sugar' over 'Sugarland'. The latter seems a >>>> bit >>>> like another world, where I think people want to be educated to >>>> succeed in the real one. >>>> >>>> SugarLand might appeal more to children. But then we would also >>>> want >>>> to make the UI less focused and more like a video game, which I >>>> don't >>>> necessarily agree with. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Wade >>>> >>>> On 1/11/09, Bryan Berry <br...@olenepal.org> wrote: >>>>> my apologies ;) >>>>> >>>>> What do you guys think? >>>>> >>>>> Playground : Where kids learn and play >>>>> >>>>> or >>>>> >>>>> SugarLand: where kids learn and play >>>>> >>>>> or >>>>> >>>>> Sugar: Where kids learn and play >>>>> >>>>> w/ transpositions of learn and play >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 19:05 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>>>>> Btw, we are having this discussion in the development list, thus >>>>>> only >>>>>> including geeks :p >>>>>> >>>>>> [adding iaep and marketing to cc] >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 17:54, imm <ian.m.macart...@talktalk.net> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 11 Jan 2009, at 15:43, Bryan Berry wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> "Sugar: A Place to Play and Learn" >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I have trouble saying this 3x quickly due to the repetition >>>>>>>> of the >>>>>>>> "Pla" >>>>>>>> sound. It may sound trivial but it does affect our ability to >>>>>>>> repeat it >>>>>>>> often and consistently >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Yes - me too, that's why I thought the "Learn and Play" form >>>>>>> flowed >>>>>>> better... I liked the sounds of that first form, but the >>>>>>> concept of >>>>>>> the second form. >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> imm >>>>>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> i...@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> i...@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel