[Sugar-devel] [Marketing] Sugar tryout (was Re: sugarlabs.org redesign)

[Thomas Gilliard]

On 11/8/2013 8:49 AM, Daniel Narvaez wrote:
> Do we really need a single installer? I mean I see it would be ideal 
> but it feels like it might be tricky licensing, implementation and 
> maintenance wise.
>
> From what I understand from Thomas, after installing VirtualBox, it's 
> just downloading and clicking on an icon (I should really try it but 
> I'm on a bad connection these days). It might not be perfect but 
> it doesn't really sound bad, what is stopping us marketing Sugar this 
> way really?
>
> On Friday, 8 November 2013, Sean DALY wrote:
>
>     Not only doable, has been done for some time now [1,2] and is
>     multi-platform (& what I use to demo Sugar on a Mac)
>
>     The Oracle PUEL license [3] very interestingly permits free
>     redistribution for educational purposes, opening the possibility
>     of a single installer, ideal for our needs.
>
>     In the past I have suggested approaching Oracle for a marketing
>     partnership under a CSR (corporate social responsibility) banner.
>
>     Sean
>
>     1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VirtualBox
>     2. https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/VirtualBox
>     2. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL
>
>
Here are some wiki pages and some older links from collaboration on 
sugar with cyberorg (india) on #opensuse-edu on freenode IRC:

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/OpenSUSE#OpenSuse-Sugar
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dramwang/images/
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dramwang/images/iso/
To write a USB:
  download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dramwang/images/sugar.i686-0.3.0-Build7.5.raw.xz
Hosted Here: (used to have a sugar vmx hosted here' since removed)
        We should consider placing some of the VirtualBox exports on 
sourceforge.net:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensuse-edu/

Recent e-mail:
Re: [opensuse-edu] Final spurt: openSUSE Education for 13.1
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 00:10:25 -0700 satellit<satellitgo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>> I hope a new sugar-desktop will become available.  I see that
>>>> latest in
>>>>
>>>> build system was for : sugar 0.96.3:
>>>>     http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/OpenSUSE#Sugar_12.1
> ok: I hopefully brought most of the packages to the current/stable
> version (not 0.99x, but, hey: 0.98).
>
> But now I need to ask the maintainers about the final setup, the
> publishing (some packages have explicitely set "no publishing") and
> some special packages.
>
> For the first "problem", I guess someone just needs to go throught the
> packages and check their (publish/build) settings, so that we get a
> final release once everything built as expected.
>
> ...but I'm unsure about SDL (upgrade) and the olpcsound package
> (upgrate from 5.10 to 6.01). Any preferences? Any ideas?
>
> With kind regards,
> Lars (Vogdt)


Tom Gilliard
>
>
>     On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org
>     <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'gonzalo at laptop.org');>> wrote:
>
>         At least the virtualbox looks doable and a good way to show
>         Sugar.
>
>         Gonzalo
>
>
>         On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Daniel Narvaez
>         <dwnarvaez at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>         'dwnarvaez at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>             On Thursday, 7 November 2013, Sean DALY 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.
>
>             * 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).
>
>             Thoughts? Other ideas? If we can agree on one or two
>             concrete, realistic approaches, I think we can at least
>             attempt to get them done for 3.102.
>
>
>             -- 
>             Daniel Narvaez
>
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> Daniel Narvaez
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