[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] idea for Sugar slogan and name

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 13:16, Erik Blankinship <erikb at 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.

Regards,

Tomeu

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at 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 <bryan at 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.macarthur at 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
>> >>>>
>>
>>
>>
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