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

[Sean DALY]

"activities" is a common term too... it works because we are subbing
it for "applications".

I think this is a good track because it shows we see our users
differents than usual "users"

Sean



On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:49 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> 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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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
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