[Marketing] Competitive Landscape: Intel Classmate software offer/ecosystem

[Sean DALY]

I agree.

In our case, there are two ecosystems I think:

* GNU/Linux distributions
* Systems integrators for schools

The first will grow as Sugar becomes more well-known, which is happening.

But the second has real potential I think and everything needs to be
done. Lots of FOSS integrators want to knock on doors of education
departments and show what's going on during this time of change
towards FOSS. Schools have varied hardware and only a local integrator
can supply services across platforms. We could work on a "deployment
template" to simplify this. I feel Solution Grove could be the
for-profit federator of a template kit, or other support network
(training...); your company is perfectly positioned to do so (at
least, seen from 10,000 meters ;-). Feedback collection could be part
of that. I haven't been able to talk that over with you, but I do
think an integration/deployment business offer should accompany Sugar
Labs software.

Sean.


On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> It makes me think about our need to build our ecosystem of these things. For
> a lot of them they should want to be on both platforms.
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkXLlXdCcsM
>>
>> Intel Classmate booth in the media room at Intel Developer Forum.
>>
>> Jeff Galinovsky, Intel Classmate regional manager for North America,
>> presents the top Classmate ecosystem applications offer:
>>
>> * Lego's Education WeDo (MindStorms junior)
>> * Algoryx Algodoo which features a "constructionist learning paradigm"
>> * Art Rage 2
>> * Young Digital Planet with learning lesson plans
>> * Childtopia
>> * Evernote
>> * MicroMundo (Microworlds junior Latin America version)
>> * Pasco SPARKvue with hardare probe
>>
>> "280 ecosystem partners today."
>>
>>
>> Note: teacher/admin software not shown in this demo.
>>
>> Collaboration not mentioned...
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