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

[Sean DALY]

Yes - computers are perfectly suited to interacting with Logo turtles,
probes, etc.

I had mentioned a couple of months ago that a Curriculum Manager might
make sense for SL... but perhaps that would be better left to
deployers closer to the schools?

Sean


On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> I agree and this video makes me want add a third ecosystem, content and
> peripheral providers.
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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