[Marketing] Our message

[Marten Vijn]

On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 09:38 +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
> I've seen others:
> 
> * OLPC is a failure & doomed and by extension, so is SL
> 
> * OLPC is distributing Windows machines so SL has been "forced" to go
> multi-platform
> 
> * While SL is developing new versions of Sugar, none of them can be
> deployed to the huge installed base and these efforts are therefore
> useless
> 
> * The interface is godawful and unusable (usually accompanied with,
> "that chiclet keyboard is too tiny for my fat grownup fingers")
> 
> * SL doesn't work on my machine/OS/distro X
> 
> * Kids could learn math quicker if they had a decent spreadsheet
> 

We should have data instead of assumtions,
There we should work together with parties (schools/universities in
education) that do edutation and reducation research projects.

Kid I worked with test:
- hyves.nl
- youtube
If this does not work they claim de device "useless". 

IHMO we should have a checklist of confirm (or not) if a device works
for them.

2ct Marten

 
 

> 
> 
> Perhaps we can try to enumerate misconceptions at today's Marketing
> meeting? (I will send reminder shortly)
> 
> A related subject: generally speaking, there are good reasons why SL
> community members should not "set the record straight" in comments...
> or at least, not without some coordination if possible.
> 
> No we haven't hit Slashdot, but I consider that a good thing since /.
> thrives on controversy and perceived failures.
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Caroline Meeks
> <caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> > When people have time look at the comments in various places (have we really
> > not hit slashdot?) and lets see what misconceptions we want to correct.
> >
> > A couple I see:
> >
> > 1. An assumption that Sugar Labs is still focused primarily on the
> > developing world rather then Sugar for kids everywhere.
> > 2. There is no content for Sugar
> >
> > Anyone else see any trends?
> > --
> > Caroline Meeks
> > Solution Grove
> > Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
> >
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