[Sugar-devel] The future of Sugar on XO-1s

[Sean DALY]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 5:57 AM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

> Finding ten ritzy private primary schools in the US where the parents can
> drop $400 in a hat shouldn't be too hard for a savvy sales person


I'd like to think that's so, but it may well be more likely that parents
would be more impressed with a tablet-based solution, or with spending that
money on home equipment.

Private schools definitely have more resources and more leeway in IT
buying, but they also need to fit IT activity into a curriculum.

It's possible a charity/social responsibility oriented approach could work,
but it's also possible that a school's IT buyer would find XOs a tough sell
compared to, say the Dell Latitude 13 education offer. And no need to pay
the salesperson so well - we would need to hire (lots of) staff for the
sales logistics at the same time.

Models exist where a nonprofit org or foundation controls a business (e.g.
Mozilla), which might be necessary in this scenario. However OLPC (and by
extension Sugar in its ecosystem) happens to have an awful image problem.
What would be the value proposition of our offer over the commercial
offers, for large scale buyers to take the risk? The charity/solidarity
aspect? Wouldn't OLPC rather want to manage such a project?

I encourage big-picture thinking, perhaps more brainstorming is in order

Sean
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