[IAEP] [Marketing] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

[Caryl Bigenho]

Martin is sooo right!  A great focus would be in making SoaS very non-techie friendly so that average classroom teachers and parents can use it and share it with children.

The number of tech-savvy teachers is pathetically small. The CUE (Computer Using Educators) conference early this month had over 1000 attendees out of about 307,000 teachers in California! That is a paltry 0.3257%!  And many of those attending really were beginners.

These people need the easiest possible entry into the wonderful world of Sugar.

Caryl

> From: martin.langhoff at gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:46:49 -0400
> To: walter.bender at gmail.com
> CC: mel at melchua.com; marketing at lists.sugarlabs.org; sdz at sugarlabs.org; pbrobinson at gmail.com; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org; tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net
> Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos	in other lists
> 
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> > the real intention is
> > "this is where you start"
> 
> But... what's the target user for a "this is where you start"? Someone
> who can make their own spin... there's only very few of those target
> users, and they can help themselves (IOWs if there isn't a SoaS,
> they'll yum install sugar-*, set gdm to autologin and they'll be ok).
> Not many of those users are close to a school.
> 
> Teachers who want to use SoaS in a classroom... there are lots of
> them... and they don't want to learn how to make spins. It's usually
> hard enough to "burn" the USB sticks so that they boot already. And
> they need many activities to be included, so they can give it to 6 or
> 7 year olds...
> 
> Yes, there are some teachers who have a geek sidekick with
> linux/fedora know-how, but that's a vanishingly small number...
> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> m
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