[IAEP] etoys, moodle, gcompris, kde-edu and other sister projects

[David Farning]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Kurt Gramlich<kurt.gramlich at lugrav.de> wrote:
> * Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> [090724 18:24]:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> we have certain relationships with other software projects with
>> similar goals to us and the people working there may be asking
>> themselves why their work isn't discussed more often in our fora,
>> specially now that active members of our community have stepped into
>> the classrooms themselves.
>>
>
> Skolelinux Germany is watching you ;-)
>
> I am watching this list as much as possible. My goal is to bring
> free software into all educational environments.
>
> And definitely, I like and support Jonas' work to package sugar for Debian, so
> that we are able to integrate it into Skolelinux/DebianEdu.
>
> One of my goals is to have all the needed server related services from
> your project on our Skolelinx server.
>
> For example: the new version of Skolelinux Server in Germany has moodle
> installed; it is still missing ejabberd and other features.
>
> Our common presence at Linuxtag 2009 in Berlin has brought new
> motivation for our common goals.
>
> So, lets continue to work together!
>
> [...]
>
>> Wonder what we could do so that these other projects feel more
>> welcomed to our community and more collaboration opportunities are
>> taken. Any ideas?

At the risk of sounding downright boring.  Sugar Labs is on a great
trajectory.  From my discussions with potential partners, their main
concerns are:
1. Predictability and Dependability.  These are functions of the
project.  Schools tend to make software purchasing decisions with a
three to five year time frames in mind.
2. Stability.  This is a function of the product.  Partners want to
know that the product is stable enough that they can effectively
support it and support their value added stuff on top of it.
3. Impact.  This is product * project.  Partners want to know that
their investments in the Sugar ecosystem will have a proportional
effect on accomplishing their missions.

Sugar Labs is steadily improving on all three fronts.

david

> http://wiki.skolelinux.de/YoungsterMeeting2009
>
> perhaps?
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tomeu
>
> Regards/AmicaLinuxement/Saludos/Viele Gruesse!
> Kurt Gramlich
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