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

[Martin Dengler]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:28:28AM +0530, Prakhar Agarwal wrote:
> I like this:
> "Sugar: Where kids Play and Learn"

The one thing that jars a bit is the "kids" - IIRC this is only AmEng[0]
for "children" (as the primary meaning); in English its primary
meaning is "young goat"[1] and they always look at us Americans a bit
funny if we start talking about "my kid".

Personally, "kids" sounds a bit too forced-folksy/-bonhomie.  I
preferred leaving the audience implied like some of the other
proposals (IIRC one was "Sugar: a place to learn and play"),
especially since we've always talked about the audience being
potentially broader than "just" children[2].

> Can we setup a wiki page for this? it will help us to get more suggestions.
> something like: http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_slogan

Looks like it's already at
http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam#Slogans .

Martin

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmEng
1. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/kid
2. http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/63354.html , quoted:

  LI: The Sugar platform itself -- who should use it and what should
  they use it for?

  Bender: It was originally designed to support learning -- so anybody
  who's a learner. It's been more focused on younger children than
  older children, but I think that's going to change. I think that
  it's going to have more broad appeal over time as it matures and as
  it becomes more readily able to support a broader set of
  applications and activities [ . . .] I think there's a lot of appeal
  in a wholly different demographic, which is the elderly.

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