[Marketing] Award-winnning

[Sean DALY]

Here's an idea: impactful Home View (and little else) on the first
page of a Sugar on a Stick section of the site to accompany the v1.0
launch months from now.

Super consumer friendly... since we do after all have to guide
teachers and parents through the trouble of downloading and installing
it.

This could be totally complementary to what we have... we could create
excitement about booting up that familiar PC to a totally new world of
Activities... overcoming hesitations.

I bought a Mac Mini last weekend to replace the seven-year-old kitchen
recipe print server iMac which died and when I followed the clear
instructions on the wiki for downloading and installing VirtualBox,
then the Sugar image, I was really excited and happy to see those
colorful icons on the big screen only 15 minutes later. VirtualBox
opened the window to nearly all the screen and my smaller son was
surprised to see it too, he said "hey - that's from the computer for
children! Can I play?"

Sean


On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 14:23, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Moma: Oops! Well, the Musée d'Orsay prides itself on its collection of
>> upstart Impressionists and Pointillists ;-)
>>
>> Did you ever see this funny little film about Apple vs. Microsoft marketing?
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjTlmm0lM-k
>>
>> I really like the idea of the Home View on the homepage. I fully agree
>> just one look is enough to inspire curiosity. We had thrown together
>> the press release screenshot under time constraints, fewer icons would
>> make more impact. But there's real potential there... we had spoken of
>> a Sugar user community site too where Sugar graphic elements could
>> play a "live" as opposed to "display" role.
>
> Somewhat related, Peabirus, a brazilian social networking site, was
> interested in using the sugar UI design in their site:
> http://www.peabirus.com.br
>
> Walter might have talked with them since the first SugarCamp.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> Beyond a screenshot, it would be fabulous I think to show an imagemap
>> of the Home View with links to explanations of each Activity from its
>> icon, or even brief descriptions in rollover. This would fit right in
>> with our strategy of star marketing of our Activities, putting
>> emphasis on where the learning happens.
>>
>> Christian, what's your point of view?
>>
>> thanks
>> Sean
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>>> Sean DALY wrote:
>>>> But, when something new is announced as entering the permanent
>>>> collection, it's a big deal... many works of art have to wait 100 or
>>>> 200 years first :-)
>>>
>>> That, of course, would be particularly unfortunate in the museum
>>> of *modern* art :-)
>>>
>>> --
>>>   // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/
>>>  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://www.sugarlabs.org/
>>>
>>
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