Someone keeps dropping the marketing list from threads. Please don't :) On Friday, 8 November 2013, Sean DALY wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="ltr">marketing discussion on the sugar-devel list<div> <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yioryos Asprobounitis <<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'mavrothal@yahoo.com');" target="_blank">mavrothal@yahoo.com</a>> Date: Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar tryout (was Re: <a href="http://sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">sugarlabs.org</a> redesign) [Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 61, Issue 55] To: "<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org');" target="_blank">sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>" <<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org');" target="_blank">sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>> >> 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. > Although the hardware specs are a good target for Sugar3, I believe that suggesting a really small box with 5 cables connected to it to showcase a K-9 educational platform, may retract from the feasibility and thoroughness of the project. A decent rooted tablet (ie Nexus 7) running Sugar on top of Linux, even if the performance is not the best, would be much more catchy and maybe suggestive of a Sugar-on-Android to come. You can still do the CuBox thing but not for journalists and teachers. > * 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). > This is certainly a good idea but it must work as advertised ie in 1 click after the VM software is installed. I would only add Parallels-VM/VMware appliances since may already be present in these closed OSs and can really provide "a single click to Sugar". _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org');" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </div> </div></div> </blockquote> -- Daniel Narvaez