<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Hi<br></div><div><div><br class="">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. </div><div><br></div><div>1. Rewriting everything in JavaScript for Sugarizer</div><div><br></div><div>2. Implementing "Sugar As A Service" with GTK3-Broadway, <a href="https://SandStorm.io">https://SandStorm.io</a> and <a href="https://os.js.org">https://os.js.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>3. Packaging Sugar to run on any desktop</div></div><div><br></div><div>I think this list is in descending order of effort. </div><div><br></div><div><div>Sebastian just has done more AWESOME work to make Sugar run on any GNU free desktop... </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit/pull/3">https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit/pull/3</a> <br></div><div><br></div><div>Once that effort wraps up, it will not be far for Sugar to run natively on non-free desktops. </div><div><br></div><div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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 (<a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs/blob/master/STRUCTURE.md">https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs/blob/master/STRUCTURE.md</a>) 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.</div><div><br></div></div><div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Cheers<br>Dave</div><div class="gmail_signature"><br></div><div class="gmail_signature"><img src="cid:ii_154cc23e9b9a68bc" alt="Inline images 1" width="544" height="544">"<br></div>
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