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

[Daniel Narvaez]

Someone keeps dropping the marketing list from threads. Please don't :)

On Friday, 8 November 2013, Sean DALY wrote:

> marketing discussion on the sugar-devel list
>
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> From: Yioryos Asprobounitis <mavrothal at yahoo.com <javascript:_e({},
> 'cvml', '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 <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org');>" <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org');>
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> >>  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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Daniel Narvaez
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