[Marketing] [IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

[Martin Langhoff]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> the real intention is
> "this is where you start"

But... what's the target user for a "this is where you start"? Someone
who can make their own spin... there's only very few of those target
users, and they can help themselves (IOWs if there isn't a SoaS,
they'll yum install sugar-*, set gdm to autologin and they'll be ok).
Not many of those users are close to a school.

Teachers who want to use SoaS in a classroom... there are lots of
them... and they don't want to learn how to make spins. It's usually
hard enough to "burn" the USB sticks so that they boot already. And
they need many activities to be included, so they can give it to 6 or
7 year olds...

Yes, there are some teachers who have a geek sidekick with
linux/fedora know-how, but that's a vanishingly small number...

cheers,


m
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