[SoaS] [IAEP] R: E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

[Sean DALY]

It's an excellent point; after all, Mingoville
http://www.mingoville.com/ based in Denmark I believe claims over 1
million users, 100+ activities for children to practice English.

But there's another facet: dominant languages such as English,
Spanish, French, put pressure on minority languages. Sugar has a role
to play supporting many languages, not just in the interface, but in
content. There have been suggestions in the past that we position
Sugar as a great way to learn English, and indeed it can be
(especially in a connected environment), but I feel English should not
be privileged over local languages.

My concern is the timing... Sebastian is under pressure for a December
8th launch and will need help collating books.

The Blueberry launch is also threatened by sugaronastick.com, which as
long as it is up will create confusion.

Sean


On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Yama Ploskonka <yamaplos at gmail.com> wrote:
> sorry to keep the off-topic on topic, :-), but in my experience the
> possibility to access stuff in English is one of the biggest calls for Sugar
> use, especially maybe in non-English places.
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Carlo Falciola <cfalciola at yahoo.it> wrote:
>>
>> Sebastian,
>> really  have absolutely no issue regarding  the provider.
>> Once I realized that in that site there weren't non EN titles  you I just
>> made a  quick Google-search for multilingual ebooks sites.
>>
>> My point is limitated to suggesting to evaluate the opportunity to put a
>> little sample in more that one language.
>>
>> ciao carlo
>>
>> --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com> ha scritto:
>>
>> > Da: Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com>
>> > Oggetto: Re: R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)
>> > A: "Carlo Falciola" <cfalciola at yahoo.it>
>> > Cc: "iaep" <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>> > Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 16:22
>> > Yes, actually, I was maybe a bit too
>> > quick with this. :)
>> >
>> > This e-mail was supposed to be about discussing good sample
>> > titles, not
>> > about announcing anything with regard to the book provider
>> > we were
>> > using. Anyway, thanks for the link! I'll look into it...
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > --Sebastian
>> >
>> > Carlo Falciola wrote:
>> > > I dont know (yet, Ill check soon) about quality of
>> > ePub version, but (http://manybooks.net/) seems to have
>> > books from  several different languages...
>> > >   Maybe one out of a selection of
>> > languages would make sense...
>> > >
>> > > ciao carlo
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas<sebastian at when.com>
>> > ha scritto:
>> > >
>> > >> Da: Sebastian Dziallas<sebastian at when.com>
>> > >> Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick
>> > (Blueberry)
>> > >> A: "SoaS"<soas at lists.sugarlabs.org>,
>> > "iaep"<iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>> > >> Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 15:36
>> > >> Hi all,
>> > >>
>> > >> as you may know, we're going to ship some selected
>> > e-books
>> > >> in the
>> > >> Journal of the Blueberry release. For providing
>> > >> high-quality e-books
>> > >> instead of simple texts (as well as fo technical
>> > >> simplicity), we're
>> > >> going to use e-books from epubBooks
>> > (www.epubbooks.com)!
>> > >>
>> > >> Right now, I've just included Alice in Wonderland
>> > (which
>> > >> comes with nice
>> > >> images in this edition), but I encourage everybody
>> > to go
>> > >> through the
>> > >> catalog on that website and to point out
>> > favorites.
>> > >>
>> > >> Thanks to Sayamindu for pointing to that site! :)
>> > >>
>> > >> --Sebastian
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