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

[Sean DALY]

Yes, for sure it's early and resources not there... but if successful
methods can be developed, that knowhow can be packaged & sold?

Sean


On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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
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>> > Caroline Meeks
>> > Solution Grove
>> > Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>> >
>> > 617-500-3488 - Office
>> > 505-213-3268 - Fax
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> Caroline Meeks
> Solution Grove
> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
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> 617-500-3488 - Office
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