[Marketing] [IAEP] idea for consolidated Sugar feedback + a new name for our "users"

[David Farning]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 to Learners.

I prefer learners to users also.

But i wonder, will this result in overloading the common term learners
with our own specific meaning? is that good or just confusing?

david

> Regarding your questions, let's go with three instead of two and let's
> start with the positive:
>
> * What do you like about Sugar?
>
> * What concerns do you have about Sugar?
>
> * How can we, the Sugar community, overcome these concerns?
>
> -walter
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Gary C. Martin made an excellent observation: if we have "Activities"
>> instead of "applications", shouldn't we have "Doers" instead of
>> "users"?
>>
>> I fully agree we shouldn't have "users" of Sugar Activities. I like
>> "Doers", but I think "Learners" may roll off the tongue more easily.
>> Suggestions please.
>>
>>
>> On a related subject: I want feedback from our Learners (Doers) using
>> the XO-1. We've discussed this before, but following SugarCamp where
>> we concluded with a round-robin of our 3-/3+ takeaways (what didn't
>> work, what worked) I had an idea watching a survivor show on
>> television... to set up a rope bridge, the hikers threw a small wire
>> across the rapids, attached to a thicker rope which they then used to
>> make a bridge with two other ropes. So my idea is to start with a
>> two-line survey of our Learners around the world:
>>
>>
>> * What do you not like about Sugar?
>>
>>
>> * What do you like about Sugar?
>>
>>
>>
>> Short, simple, to the point... easy to translate... a light payload
>> for the difficult task of distributing/receiving a survey :-)
>>
>> Can we start with this "wire", and work our way up to a "bridge"?
>>
>> Could we ask the OLPC Corps Africa people for help, in parallel with
>> their formal survey? I have heard they will have one, but I have no
>> info about it.
>>
>> ideas please
>>
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Sean
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