<div dir="ltr">Gonzalo - I'm sorry, I was unable to attend the SLOBs meeting today.<div><br></div><div>There are issues with doing PR about the release</div><div><br></div><div>* It's not clear to me where we are going. The OLPC/Sugar development ecosystem seems to be at a crossroads. I am encouraged by the web activity work, but don't understand the path of transposing the value proposition of Sugar (interface, Journal, collaboration, Activities) to handheld tactile devices (tablets to smartphones). PCs (of any size) with keyboards are no longer competitive with tablets for grade-school classroom use. Perhaps the XO-4 could still be in the running; there is no clear message from OLPC.</div>
<div><br></div><div>* Our target market, the ten million or so grade-school teachers worldwide, can't benefit from the release; there are no installers. There are detailed instructions for using virtualization on the wiki thanks to satellit, and the consistently good work of probinson on SoaS, but the release itself won't be news if no one can use it.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>For these reasons (as mentioned on the marketing list) an Activity/pedagogical focus is a safe bet. Unfortunately our Turtle Art Day PR flopped because publication of the Spanish PR was delayed by two days (technical bottleneck which I very much hope we will be able to solve). The PR will however fulfill its role of background for interested journalists (<a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/press">www.sugarlabs.org/press</a>). I haven't expected any wider press coverage for some time now, since we don't have any easy-to-try products available and OLPC's press communications are meant to imply that laptops are out and the Android tablet is in, leaving Sugar in limbo. An easy installation & use procedure for Sugar on Android or the Raspberry Pi could have major press impact, but I don't know how near or far we are from those.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The upcoming TA Days and internationalization work grant will give us ample opportunity to mention the release, but we need to know where we are going if we hope to get a message out on that topic.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sean</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gonzalo@laptop.org" target="_blank">gonzalo@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">One topic to add could be do a PR about our recent sugar 0.100 release.<br>
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Gonzalo<br>
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On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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