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

[Sameer Verma]

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> 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.

Found a thread that might be helpful.
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2013-September/044819.html

cheers,
Sameer

>
> 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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