<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Christian Marc Schmidt <<a href="mailto:christianmarc@gmail.com">christianmarc@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I think we'd need to know the specific points of contention. I can't imagine which design decisions might work less well on PCs. Sugar remains significantly easier to use than standard PC operating systems...</blockquote> <div> Put Sugar in front of the average adult sitting alone, without any instruction, for 20 minutes. I doubt many of them would agree with you. Thats not how Sugar was designed to be used, but it is the conditions under which it is usually evaluated. I think this is one of our marketing challenges. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Christian <div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Eben Eliason <<a href="mailto:eben.eliason@gmail.com" target="_blank">eben.eliason@gmail.com</a>> wrote: </div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> "Sugar is a very good interface for the OLPC computers it was made for, but many of the design decisions and interfaces don't work nearly as well on standard PCs." I'm curious what people think about this statement. I tend to agree that some design decisions were biased toward the XO-1 hardware, but I don't think that any of the decisions actually fail on a "standard PC", and I actually think Sugar scales pretty well in terms of interaction. However, if we can assume their perspective and locate some areas which aren't ideal on all hardware, perhaps we can work on resolving them. Anyone have some examples? - Eben On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Sean DALY <<a href="http://sdaly.be" target="_blank">sdaly.be</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>> wrote: > It claims to be a standalone home computer environment for kids, not a > classroom environment. > > > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Bernie Innocenti <<a href="mailto:bernie@codewiz.org" target="_blank">bernie@codewiz.org</a>> wrote: >> ,Josh williams wrote: >>> Looks like a Microsoft project, they're hosted on IIS and the site is >>> written in ASP. >> >> Might also be a bad choice of web hosting provider. The entire ISO >> image contains free software. >> >> -- >> // Bernie Innocenti - <a href="http://www.codewiz.org/" target="_blank">http://www.codewiz.org/</a> >> \X/ Sugar Labs - <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org/</a> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> >> > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> > </blockquote></div></div></div> -- <a href="mailto:anything@christianmarcschmidt.com" target="_blank">anything@christianmarcschmidt.com</a> <a href="http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com" target="_blank">http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com</a> 917/ 575 0013 _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax