Perhaps I am stating the obvious, but the suggestions are very suggestive of Candyland.  <div><br></div><div><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GBSubG7_qbw/Rj_u39QVD7I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/YAZ3WRMdYbU/s1600-h/Candyland-1949.JPG">http://bp1.blogger.com/_GBSubG7_qbw/Rj_u39QVD7I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/YAZ3WRMdYbU/s1600-h/Candyland-1949.JPG</a><br> </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="http://www.mipo37.com/CandyLand.jpg">http://www.mipo37.com/CandyLand.jpg</a><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I guess Bryan thinks of it as a play on "Mathland" (in Papert's sense,<br> not the curriculum of the same name). The name of <a href="http://squeakland.org" target="_blank">squeakland.org</a> was<br> inspired by the same idea:<br> <br> "What would happen if children who can't do math grew up in Mathland,<br> a place that is to math what France is to French?" --S.P.<br> <br> Also see<br> <br> <a href="http://www.kusasa.org/background/mathland/mathland.html" target="_blank">http://www.kusasa.org/background/mathland/mathland.html</a><br> <font color="#888888"><br> - Bert -<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br> On 12.01.2009, at 06:36, Wade Brainerd wrote:<br> <br> > I personally prefer 'Sugar' over 'Sugarland'.  The latter seems a bit<br> > like another world, where I think people want to be educated to<br> > succeed in the real one.<br> ><br> > SugarLand might appeal more to children.  But then we would also want<br> > to make the UI less focused and more like a video game, which I don't<br> > necessarily agree with.<br> ><br> > Best,<br> > Wade<br> ><br> > On 1/11/09, Bryan Berry <<a href="mailto:bryan@olenepal.org">bryan@olenepal.org</a>> wrote:<br> >> my apologies ;)<br> >><br> >> What do you guys think?<br> >><br> >> Playground : Where kids learn and play<br> >><br> >> or<br> >><br> >> SugarLand: where kids learn and play<br> >><br> >> or<br> >><br> >> Sugar: Where kids learn and play<br> >><br> >> w/ transpositions of learn and play<br> >><br> >> On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 19:05 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:<br> >>> Btw, we are having this discussion in the development list, thus<br> >>> only<br> >>> including geeks :p<br> >>><br> >>> [adding iaep and marketing to cc]<br> >>><br> >>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 17:54, imm <<a href="mailto:ian.m.macarthur@talktalk.net">ian.m.macarthur@talktalk.net</a>><br> >>> wrote:<br> >>>><br> >>>> On 11 Jan 2009, at 15:43, Bryan Berry wrote:<br> >>>><br> >>>>> "Sugar: A Place to Play and Learn"<br> >>>>><br> >>>>> I have trouble saying this 3x quickly due to the repetition of the<br> >>>>> "Pla"<br> >>>>> sound. It may sound trivial but it does affect our ability to<br> >>>>> repeat it<br> >>>>> often and consistently<br> >>>><br> >>>> Yes - me too, that's why I thought the "Learn and Play" form flowed<br> >>>> better... I liked the sounds of that first form, but the concept of<br> >>>> the second form.<br> >>>> --<br> >>>> imm<br> >>>><br> <br> <br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> </div></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>