[math4] Introduction of MIT graduate team working with Sugar Labs

[Karsten Wade]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 03:22:34PM -0500, Julie Lein wrote:
> Hi Karsten,
> 
> Thanks for the question!  The major objective of our team is to assess how
> to increase awareness of Sugar Labs and Sugar.  To that end, we first
> conducted qualitative interviews with developers, teachers, and other
> supporters of Sugar.  We also did parallel secondary research of other
> technology providers in the education space, as well as open source
> organizations.  The survey was developed as a result of our preliminary
> research to gauge the perceptions of those involved with Sugar.  The goal is
> to quantify many of the questions and observations raised during the
> qualitative interviews, again with the goal of bolstering awareness of Sugar
> in the global community.

Do those materials exist on the Sugar wiki, or do you have any plans
to make those open and freely available?  I know you may have some
academic restrictions, for example on licensing the content under
Creative Commons.

Mainly, I'm asking so that other open source software projects
watching Sugar Labs can benefit from learning to do marketing the open
source way.

> If you have any other questions, please do let me know.  To give a little
> more about my background, I formerly worked as a pollster, so I also have a
> background in survey design and methodology.

Great, thanks!  I found it a good survey, and while I'm merely curious
about things (such as benefits of 7 satisfaction levels compared to 5
or 3), I definitely don't have any other color recommendations.[1] :)

- Karsten

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bike_shed
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