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

[Caroline Meeks]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>

We may well not have the resources to d it right now. But maybe we should
just acknowledge that.  I feel like there is a desire to delegate important
work to "deployers" a class of organizations that don't yet exist.

Or if we see them as existing already in the many OLPC countries then
clearly there is a need for a Sugar Labs level coordination of efforts.

Personally I'd like us to get more comfortable with saying, yes this needs
to be done but we don't have the resources to do it yet.



> 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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> >> > Caroline Meeks
> >> > Solution Grove
> >> > Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
> >> >
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> >
> >
> >
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> > Caroline Meeks
> > Solution Grove
> > Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
> >
> > 617-500-3488 - Office
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