[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] idea for Sugar slogan and name

[Bert Freudenberg]

I guess Bryan thinks of it as a play on "Mathland" (in Papert's sense,  
not the curriculum of the same name). The name of squeakland.org was  
inspired by the same idea:

"What would happen if children who can’t do math grew up in Mathland,  
a place that is to math what France is to French?" --S.P.

Also see

http://www.kusasa.org/background/mathland/mathland.html

- Bert -

On 12.01.2009, at 06:36, Wade Brainerd wrote:

> I personally prefer 'Sugar' over 'Sugarland'.  The latter seems a bit
> like another world, where I think people want to be educated to
> succeed in the real one.
>
> SugarLand might appeal more to children.  But then we would also want
> to make the UI less focused and more like a video game, which I don't
> necessarily agree with.
>
> Best,
> Wade
>
> On 1/11/09, Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org> wrote:
>> my apologies ;)
>>
>> What do you guys think?
>>
>> Playground : Where kids learn and play
>>
>> or
>>
>> SugarLand: where kids learn and play
>>
>> or
>>
>> Sugar: Where kids learn and play
>>
>> w/ transpositions of learn and play
>>
>> On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 19:05 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>> Btw, we are having this discussion in the development list, thus  
>>> only
>>> including geeks :p
>>>
>>> [adding iaep and marketing to cc]
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 17:54, imm <ian.m.macarthur at talktalk.net>  
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 11 Jan 2009, at 15:43, Bryan Berry wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "Sugar: A Place to Play and Learn"
>>>>>
>>>>> I have trouble saying this 3x quickly due to the repetition of the
>>>>> "Pla"
>>>>> sound. It may sound trivial but it does affect our ability to
>>>>> repeat it
>>>>> often and consistently
>>>>
>>>> Yes - me too, that's why I thought the "Learn and Play" form flowed
>>>> better... I liked the sounds of that first form, but the concept of
>>>> the second form.
>>>> --
>>>> imm
>>>>