[Marketing] [IAEP] New try on a better sugarlabs site

[Sean DALY]

Dan - two years ago we arrived at 3 million by estimating 2.6 million XO
laptops delivered, Sugar on Intel Classmates in Argentina (between 50K and
100K of the approximately 1.5 million locally assembled from 2011 - the
others had been running Windows and may have been reconditioned to
GNU/Linux), and over half a million downloads of Sugar (mostly Sugar on a
Stick) from 2009.

Today, that number is most likely smaller, since many XOs have arrived at
the end of their life and not been replaced and the laptop/netbook
children's education market has shrunk due to the arrival of tablets. I'm
not sure how much smaller, clearly XO usage estimates will be the key
figure.

There have been 11 million downloads of Sugar Activities since 2009.

Sean.



On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:35 AM, Dan Tenason <dan.tenason at mail.ru> wrote:

> Is there any proof that sugar is used everyday by nearly 3 million
> children at stated on the website? My research from 2 countries which have
> purchased over 100,000 laptops has indicated that due to non-deliver,
> breakage, and disuse, the term 'used daily by 3 million children' is
> overstating use by an order of magnitude.
>
> Optimism can be valuable. Deceit, even if you mean well, is not
> appropriate when dealing with some of the worlds most needy populations.
>
> Dan
>
>
> Friday, April 10, 2015 5:49 PM -03:00 from Gonzalo Odiard <
> godiard at sugarlabs.org>:
>
>   Today in #sugar, user anindya shared a new proposal to improve
> http://sugarlabs.org/ site (the proposal is
> anindya.github.io/www-sugarlabs)
>
> This is the third proposal from a volunteer in the last months.
>
> But in the different proposals, developers worked with the content
> available,
> then we have a new design, but the result is the same. And we,
> the developers usually are not good graphic designers.
>
> As discussed before we need:
> * Something simple and fast.
> * With a clear message.
> * With a professional design.
> * With links to places where the user can download easy ways to use Sugar
> (VM if the user don't use Linux)
> * A place to point developers to the right places.
>
> I know Walter contributed to the content, but I am sure he is not going to
> get angry,
> if I say he is not a marketing guy. (Me neither, of course)
>
> Sean said we need images and he requested that in the past without success.
> Maybe we can try again?
>
> We still need a graphic designer (someone in IAEP available?)
>
> It's possible work in the sugarlabs.org as a project, with the marketing
> guys,
> the developers and the designers together? I sent this mail to sugar-devel,
> IAEP and marketing lists. We can follow where is better.
>
> --
> Gonzalo Odiard
>
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