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

[Thomas Gilliard]

On 11/8/2013 6:55 AM, Daniel Narvaez wrote:
> I knew it's possible to run Sugar in VirtualBox. I didn't know we was 
> producing vmdk images, I remember Peter was opposed to that. With 
> those images, is the installation one-click (reasonably close to 
> it) assuming you have virtualbox already installed?
>
If you have Oracle VirtualBox [2] installed:
Click on the  ova icon for:
  http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/sugar_trisquel_6.ova (as an 
example) [1][3]
And the file will be imported into VirtualBox
Note:
You can also save this VM as a desktop shortcut from the VirtualBox top 
menu.
"Machine/Create Shortcut on Desktop"

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Virtual_machines
[2] 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/virtualbox/downloads/index.html
[3] 
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Sugar-in-Virtualization
Tom Gilliard
satellit
> The wiki page is terribly complicated...
>
> On Friday, 8 November 2013, Sean DALY 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.
>
>     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
>     <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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 <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>         '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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