<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> 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@gmail.com > Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:46:49 -0400 > To: walter.bender@gmail.com > CC: mel@melchua.com; marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org; sdz@sugarlabs.org; pbrobinson@gmail.com; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; tomeu@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@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 > -- > martin.langhoff@gmail.com > martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep </body> </html>