[Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Introduction and question about introducing Sugar development

[David Farning]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Steve Dalton<steve.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Tomeu
>
> Yeah - I'm already thinking a little about the way he uses it - and maybe
> something for the preschoolers (I know it's target is 6-12 but some kids are
> quite adept). By the time I get around to something he'll have probably
> outgrown it - but hopefully my baby daughter will be at Beta tester stage by
> then ;)
>
> I'm still unsure on what to do about a presentation though... have to have a
> good think about it tomorrow and do a bit more research. Closing date for
> submission of talk summary is 30th - so might have to just leave it if I
> have nothing concrete.

Steve,

There are the start of some good resources at
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team .  Check out the
presentations and ambassadors sub pages.

I am also CCing the Marketing list instead of the devel list.

Go ahead and submit a talk.  We can work out the details later.  All
of our extroverts were on the road last week....

david

> Regards
> Steve
>
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>
>> 2009/6/26 Steve Dalton <steve.dalton at gmail.com>:
>> > Hi All
>> >
>> > Just went on IRC channel - but no-one around - so I'll try here.
>> >
>> > Steve Dalton here from Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. I'm an
>> > experienced developer - mainly C/C++/Java/Groovy - but also dabble with
>> > Ruby/Python, just starting out playing with Sugar development
>> >
>> > I was kindly donated 5 XOs a while back and I have been trying to get a
>> > bit of a local OLPC developers group started here in QLD. Have young kids
>> > and my (almost) 4 year old is already getting stuck into Sugar and working
>> > things out which makes me think you guys are onto something really awesome -
>> > I'd love to help in some way.
>> >
>> > Anyway - one way I think I might be able to stimulate some local
>> > activity is by doing some sort of live demo on developing with Sugar. I was
>> > hoping to demo something at Barcamp Brisbane next month and possibly
>> > something at the OSDC (Open Source Developers Conference) in Brisbane later
>> > this year if it works. I have made one of my paper submission for OSDC a
>> > Sugar one but It's sitting in my drafts folder until I can be sure I have
>> > something that has half a chance of working out (I like jumping in at the
>> > deep-end but don't want to make a complete fool of myself).
>> >
>> > Does anyone have any good suggestions on what to do? I've done the Hello
>> > world demo and had a look at some of the activities already developed... but
>> > was hoping to do something a little more interesting with some "cool" value
>> > to get people interested. Are there any canned demos or tutorials around
>> > that anyone can recommend? Might give me some ideas.
>>
>> Not that I know, though my recommendation would be to check out how
>> your kid is using Sugar and think of how the learning experience could
>> be improved. Most experienced developers will be happier to help if
>> it's something that addresses a real need than if it's something done
>> out of pure curiosity.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>> > Many thanks in advance
>> > Steve
>> >
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