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

[Daniel Narvaez]

Getting Sugar to run on a Nexus 7 is relatively simple, making it usable
enough would likely be a lot of work but it should be possible. But, as far
as I know, we have no idea of how get around the rooting, making it a
viable solution for deployments. Until we figure that out IMO it doesn't
make sense to market Sugar on a tablet.

On Friday, 8 November 2013, Sameer Verma wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > cc'ing Marketing as well.
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis
> > <mavrothal at yahoo.com <javascript:;>> 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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Daniel Narvaez
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