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

[Sameer Verma]

cc'ing Marketing as well.

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis
<mavrothal at yahoo.com> 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.
> 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.

I agree that to showcase Sugar, a tablet would be a better platform
than Raspberry Pi, or Cubox-1, etc. Ruben Rodriguez showed us a Nexus
7 tablet running sugar at the OLPC SF summit. This build was running
on top of Ubuntu desktop for ARM. We also had a Nexus 7 that was
running the Ubuntu Touch (for phone and tablets) and Ruben thought it
would perhaps be a better platform for running Sugar on a ARM tablet
instead of his approach.

I haven't followed up with him, but I'm cc'ing him as well.

cheers,
Sameer

> 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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