<div>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.</div> <div> </div>On Friday, 8 November 2013, Sameer Verma wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Sameer Verma <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'sverma@sfsu.edu')">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>> wrote: > cc'ing Marketing as well. > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis > <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'mavrothal@yahoo.com')">mavrothal@yahoo.com</a>> 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. <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2013-September/044819.html" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2013-September/044819.html</a> 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". >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> <a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org')">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> >> >> _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list <a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org')">Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing</a> </blockquote> -- Daniel Narvaez