[Sugar-devel] Sugar tryout (was Re: sugarlabs.org redesign) [Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 61, Issue 55]

[Iain Brown Douglas]

On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 12:28 +0100, Daniel Narvaez wrote:
> I don't think we should be suggestive of Sugar on a tablet until we
> have a minimally realistic idea of how to get it done. There is enough
> talk about this Sugar-on-Android which is not coming... :)
> 
> 
> Though you are right that the Cubox-i might send the wrong message. I
> was seeing it more like a vehicle for the software but, yeah, the
> hardware won't be ignored. It would a better way to demo to developers
> or possible hardware partners.
> 
> 
> Another idea. Sugar in a web browser. It would be the easiest to get
> running for the users and it's consistent with the current direction
> of development. Lots of work left to have enough activities for it to
> be a compelling experience... Maybe virtualized Sugar is the short
> term goal, Sugar in a web browser is the long term one.
> 
> On Friday, 8 November 2013, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote:
>         >>  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.
Agreed, but when presented as Sugar_on_a_Set_Top_Box, this is not so
unusual. Screwed to the back of a monitor, with power from the monitor,
and wifi, the wires can be reduced to zero.

Iain Brown Douglas
>         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". 
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> Daniel Narvaez
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