[IAEP] First competitor?

[Caroline Meeks]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Christian Marc Schmidt <
christianmarc at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think we'd need to know the specific points of contention. I can't
> imagine which design decisions might work less well on PCs. Sugar remains
> significantly easier to use than standard PC operating systems...


Put Sugar in front of the average adult sitting alone, without any
instruction, for 20 minutes.  I doubt many of them would agree with you.

Thats not how Sugar was designed to be used, but it is the conditions under
which it is usually evaluated.  I think this is one of our marketing
challenges.



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> Christian
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> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> "Sugar is a very good interface for the OLPC computers it was made
>> for, but many of the design decisions and interfaces don't work nearly
>> as well on standard PCs."
>>
>> I'm curious what people think about this statement.  I tend to agree
>> that some design decisions were biased toward the XO-1 hardware, but I
>> don't think that any of the decisions actually fail on a "standard
>> PC", and I actually think Sugar scales pretty well in terms of
>> interaction. However, if we can assume their perspective and locate
>> some areas which aren't ideal on all hardware, perhaps we can work on
>> resolving them.  Anyone have some examples?
>>
>> - Eben
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>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > It claims to be a standalone home computer environment for kids, not a
>> > classroom environment.
>> >
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>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
>> wrote:
>> >> ,Josh williams wrote:
>> >>> Looks like a Microsoft project, they're hosted on IIS and the site is
>> >>> written in ASP.
>> >>
>> >> Might also be a bad choice of web hosting provider.  The entire ISO
>> >> image contains free software.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >>   // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/
>> >>  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://www.sugarlabs.org/
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