[Marketing] Sugar Boot CDs

[Mike Lee]

OK, I will take Sean's excellent guidelines for the CD and adapt them
a label design based on the info on the OLPC LiveCD page:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveCd

Kevin, Jeff and Luke have experience burning them, and I believe Kevin
made last year's Sugar LiveCD, pictured here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/2855498849/sizes/o/

I will send my draft design back for comment.

Mike




On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmmm a CD-only Sugar would mean no Journal storage I guess?
>
> It's been done before (I have a Fedora spin with Sugar 0.82 around)
> but I've lost track of what the latest one is.
>
> No doubt a boot helper CD without a stick will be confusing... since
> even a liveCD will be confusing, most people probably just assuming it
> will be software for Windows or Mac :-(
>
> SoaS sidesteps perceptions/expectations associated with CDs.
>
> It would be great if a Sugar liveCD could prompt for a stick and store
> the Journal on that; would be perfect for a classroom shared machine,
> and an identical liveCD at home could prolong the Sugar experience.
>
> An option to create a SoaS would be cool.
>
> I have no idea how difficult these might be technically speaking.
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Caroline
> Meeks<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think it makes sense to give out full live CDs.
>>
>> I think it only makes sense to give out Boot Helper CDs with USBs or people
>> will be hopelessly confused by them.
>>
>> I wish there was one CD that could do both :)  It would look for a USB and
>> if it wasn't there it would boot Sugar from the CD.
>>
>> Caroline
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm just following up to clarify the deal with handing out Sugar CDs
>>> at NECC. As I understand it, we will be making up CD labels (still
>>> need source art or direction on what to adapt) and burning CDs. Kevin
>>> and Jeff have worked at the NECC open source pavilion before and say
>>> that they had hundreds of Ubuntu CDs evaporate quickly. I think we'll
>>> have to ration ours to give out to folks who demonstrate some mild
>>> interest. If these are boot CDs, we must make it clear on the label
>>> that one still has to download the Fedora utility to burn SoaS onto a
>>> USB drive. If we don't make this explicit, people will think the CD is
>>> an installer or the ready-to-go LiveCD.
>>>
>>> Mike
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>>
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