[Sugar-devel] Sugar Outreach Plans 2019 - PyCon Cleveland (Tony Anderson)

[Lionel Laské]

Hi Tony,

+1 on this.

BTW Sugar/Python is not the only way to grow user base.
For your information, we're currently deploying Sugarizer in 3 schools in
the Saint-Ouen city near Paris. It means about 150 Android tablets with
Sugarizer OS installed on it, used by few hundred children.

Regards.

        Lionel.


Le lun. 15 avr. 2019 à 11:03, <sugar-devel-request at lists.sugarlabs.org> a
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> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:42:52 +0800
> From: Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
> To: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Outreach Plans 2019 - PyCon Cleveland
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> What Sugar Labs needs to survive is users. If our count of active users
> reaches zero, there will be no need for developers (or Sugar Labs).
>
> A Conference like PyCon is an opportunity to show that Sugar is a viable
> educational platform. So marketing does not need to be concerned about
> $, it needs to be concerned about the characteristics of Sugar that make
> it an attractive option for educators. At such a conference it is
> possible to make presentations - ofen there is an educational track.
> More importantly there is an opportunity to have an exhibit (booth).
> This booth can provide many examples of Sugar running on platforms other
> than the XO (make sure there some XO pictures visible since this
> attracts interest to a booth.) Sugarizer can demonstrate that Sugar is
> available for smartphones, tablets and other devices. Sugar can show its
> capabilities on Ubuntu, Raspbian. Windows is a special case since
> Miccrosoft has been able to lock educators into Windows. Showing that
> Sugar is viable in a Windows-based deployment may be beyond our current
> cabability.
>
> Our goal should be to attract new contributors and to find new
> deployment opportunities.
>
> Tony
>
>
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