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

[Erik Blankinship]

Perhaps I am stating the obvious, but the suggestions are very suggestive of
Candyland.
http://bp1.blogger.com/_GBSubG7_qbw/Rj_u39QVD7I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/YAZ3WRMdYbU/s1600-h/Candyland-1949.JPG

http://www.mipo37.com/CandyLand.jpg

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> 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
> >>>>
>
>
>
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