[IAEP] "Windows Is Coming"

[Samuel Greenfeld]

Alternatively (or perhaps alongside) a lot of schools are moving to
Chromebooks these days.
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/03/googles-chromebooks-make-up-half-of-us-classroom-devices.html

If Sugar wants to be used in such environments, then it needs to work in a
Chromebook's web browser or as an installed app.

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:17 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> If we want to grow Sugar's userbase 10x, I think Sugar must run not only
> on GNU but also Windows and Mac OS X.
>
> 1. Rewriting everything in JavaScript for Sugarizer
>
> 2. Implementing "Sugar As A Service" with GTK3-Broadway,
> https://SandStorm.io and https://os.js.org
>
> 3. Packaging Sugar to run on any desktop
>
> I think this list is in descending order of effort.
>
> Sebastian just has done more AWESOME work to make Sugar run on any GNU
> free desktop...
>
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit/pull/3
>
> Once that effort wraps up, it will not be far for Sugar to run natively on
> non-free desktops.
>
> I kindly offer you the proposition that the majority of users of VLC and
> Firefox and LibreOffice and Inkscape and GIMP and Blender and all the other
> major free software projects are on Windows.
>
> More philosophically, I think that the most powerful attribute of libre
> software is that it can be ubiquitous. I think a ultra-cross-platform
> strategy that pushes this attribute to its limit is advantageous for the
> software freedom movement, because it - massively - widens the conversion
> funnel (
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs/blob/master/STRUCTURE.md) and
> gets people familiar with libre UIs and gets their data into libre formats,
> so that making the transition to a GNU desktop is actually very
> straightforward.
>
> --
> Cheers
> Dave
>
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