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