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

[Daniel Narvaez]

Do we really need a single installer? I mean I see it would be ideal but it
feels like it might be tricky licensing, implementation and maintenance
wise.

>From what I understand from Thomas, after installing VirtualBox, it's just
downloading and clicking on an icon (I should really try it but I'm on a
bad connection these days). It might not be perfect but it doesn't really
sound bad, what is stopping us marketing Sugar this way really?

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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