[IAEP] [Marketing] idea for consolidated Sugar feedback + a new name for our "users"

[Eben Eliason]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> We might want to simplify the language a bit for kids... I'm not sure
> kids would be able to offer a coherent answer to the third question,
> even if they know who we are :-)
> (note to self: put photo of community in as easter egg?)
>
> How about wishlist fishing?
>
> "What would you like to do with Sugar that you can't do today?"
> or...
> "What should the people who make Sugar do next?"

+1

> (recognizing that understandably, many kids will likely bring up
> hardware not just software and to the latter question we will get
> answers like "take a long rest after programming so hard")

Maybe the third could be something like:
"What new Sugar feature would you like to see most?"

(I guess that makes it kind of similar to question 2, but even as
originally stated, question 3 was more of a followup.)

Eben

> Sean
>
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>> +1 to Learners.
>>
>> Regarding your questions, let's go with three instead of two and let's
>> start with the positive:
>>
>> * What do you like about Sugar?
>>
>> * What concerns do you have about Sugar?
>>
>> * How can we, the Sugar community, overcome these concerns?
>>
>> -walter
>>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Gary C. Martin made an excellent observation: if we have "Activities"
>>> instead of "applications", shouldn't we have "Doers" instead of
>>> "users"?
>>>
>>> I fully agree we shouldn't have "users" of Sugar Activities. I like
>>> "Doers", but I think "Learners" may roll off the tongue more easily.
>>> Suggestions please.
>>>
>>>
>>> On a related subject: I want feedback from our Learners (Doers) using
>>> the XO-1. We've discussed this before, but following SugarCamp where
>>> we concluded with a round-robin of our 3-/3+ takeaways (what didn't
>>> work, what worked) I had an idea watching a survivor show on
>>> television... to set up a rope bridge, the hikers threw a small wire
>>> across the rapids, attached to a thicker rope which they then used to
>>> make a bridge with two other ropes. So my idea is to start with a
>>> two-line survey of our Learners around the world:
>>>
>>>
>>> * What do you not like about Sugar?
>>>
>>>
>>> * What do you like about Sugar?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Short, simple, to the point... easy to translate... a light payload
>>> for the difficult task of distributing/receiving a survey :-)
>>>
>>> Can we start with this "wire", and work our way up to a "bridge"?
>>>
>>> Could we ask the OLPC Corps Africa people for help, in parallel with
>>> their formal survey? I have heard they will have one, but I have no
>>> info about it.
>>>
>>> ideas please
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Sean
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Marketing mailing list
>>> Marketing at lists.sugarlabs.org
>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>>
> _______________________________________________
> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
> IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>