[Marketing] Fwd: [Sugar-devel] Sugar tryout (was Re: sugarlabs.org redesign) [Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 61, Issue 55]

[Sean DALY]

marketing discussion on the sugar-devel list


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From: Yioryos Asprobounitis <mavrothal at yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar tryout (was Re: sugarlabs.org redesign)
[Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 61, Issue 55]
To: "sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org" <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>


>>  The larger problem is the absence of a marketing strategy, we need to
know
>>  where we are going to communicate effectively. In particular, we need to
>>  choose and implement how to offer Sugar tryout to teachers and
journalists.
>>
>
> I can think of a couple of approaches
>
> * Get Sugar running well on the CuBox-i. Find budget to buy a few of those
> to distribute to chosen journalist and teachers. Try to partner with
> SolidRun to offer Sugar as an out-of-the-box installation option.
>

Although the hardware specs are a good target for Sugar3, I believe that
suggesting a really small box with 5 cables connected to it to showcase a
K-9 educational platform, may retract from the feasibility and thoroughness
of the project.
A decent rooted tablet (ie Nexus 7) running Sugar on top of Linux, even if
the performance is not the best, would be much more catchy and maybe
suggestive of a Sugar-on-Android to come.
You can still do the CuBox thing but not for journalists and teachers.

> * Make it easy to run Sugar inside VirtualBox on Windows and OS X. Without
> having investigated too deeply it seems that a two step process would be
> both realistically implementable and easy enough for the user
>
> 1 Install virtualbox
> 2 Install a Sugar application (which would take care of setting up the
> appliance).
>

This is certainly a good idea but it must work as advertised ie in 1 click
after the VM software is installed.
I would only add Parallels-VM/VMware appliances since may already be
present in these closed OSs and can really provide "a single click to
Sugar".

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