[Marketing] Sugar tryout (was Re: sugarlabs.org redesign)

[Sean DALY]

I believe Oracle GPL'd the code itself, as I remember it was the extension
pack & installer that had licensing issues... in any case, topics for the
SFC to help with

Sean



On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Not only doable, has been done for some time now [1,2] and is
> multi-platform
> > (& what I use to demo Sugar on a Mac)
> >
> > The Oracle PUEL license [3] very interestingly permits free
> redistribution
> > for educational purposes, opening the possibility of a single installer,
> > ideal for our needs.
> >
> > In the past I have suggested approaching Oracle for a marketing
> partnership
> > under a CSR (corporate social responsibility) banner.
>
> One issue we bump up against is the stricture to only host FOSS
> materials. So if we were to have such a partnership, it may have to
> hosted elsewhere. (VMWare has a similar program)
>
> -walter
>
> >
> > Sean
> >
> > 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VirtualBox
> > 2. https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/VirtualBox
> > 2. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> At least the virtualbox looks doable and a good way to show Sugar.
> >>
> >> Gonzalo
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Thursday, 7 November 2013, Sean DALY wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> * 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).
> >>>
> >>> Thoughts? Other ideas? If we can agree on one or two concrete,
> realistic
> >>> approaches, I think we can at least attempt to get them done for 3.102.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Daniel Narvaez
> >>>
> >>>
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> Walter Bender
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