[IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

[Frederick Grose]

 >2) seemed odd for the dots to appear from 6 o'clock to 6 o'clock (12 to 12
 > feels more natural to me)

I like the clock metaphor, with the boot up process rising like the sun,
building upon itself, and then closing the ring to present a complete
system.

(I guess some of us start our day at noon, or only get started at midnight.
And my analog stopwatch starts at the top.)

In any case,

Sugar, being an open system, can and will distinguish itself by its ability
to support unlimited adaptation, of itself and by extension, its Learners.

Every element of the system is a learning opportunity.  Especially one that
can't be avoided.  The start-up sequence in Sugar will become a unique,
community and personal introduction spot (like home pages and desktops).

For Sugar, the new "Hello World" tutorial could be its boot Activities for
Learners:  Each development tool (Pippy, Turtle Art, Etoys, others, even
Forth) should provide an Activity to build the start-up sequence.  Learners
could play with the tools to build an endless variety of start-up spots,
modify and preview from a library of saved sequences, learn all sorts of
things about the system, the different tools, and of course, designate one
sequence to display on the next boot.

The work space is both sufficiently small and necessarily limited, so that
robustness could be provided, while at the same time, the content of the
sequences is limited only by the imagination.  Learners will be able to take
pride in a working sequence based on their modifications!

Schools and classes of Learners could use prepared sequences to provide
short reminders of lessons or announcements (perhaps loaded before shutdown
at the end of the day or class).

I imagine that simple cartoons with embedded, single point or short point
lessons, messages, and humor would become popular.  Brief jingles would
develop a currency like ring tones.  And so on, *ad infinitum*!

         --Fred
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