I knew it's possible to run Sugar in VirtualBox. I didn't know we was producing vmdk images, I remember Peter was opposed to that. With those images, is the installation one-click (reasonably close to it) assuming you have virtualbox already installed?<div>
<br></div><div>The wiki page is terribly complicated...<br><br>On Friday, 8 November 2013, Sean DALY wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
Not only doable, has been done for some time now [1,2] and is multi-platform (& what I use to demo Sugar on a Mac)<div><br></div><div>The Oracle PUEL license [3] very interestingly permits free redistribution for educational purposes, opening the possibility of a single installer, ideal for our needs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In the past I have suggested approaching Oracle for a marketing partnership under a CSR (corporate social responsibility) banner.</div><div><br></div><div>Sean</div><div><br></div><div>1. <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VirtualBox" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VirtualBox</a></div>
<div>2. <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/VirtualBox" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/VirtualBox</a></div><div>2. <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL" target="_blank">https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL</a></div>
<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'gonzalo@laptop.org');" target="_blank">gonzalo@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">At least the virtualbox looks doable and a good way to show Sugar.<div><br></div><div>Gonzalo</div></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Daniel Narvaez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'dwnarvaez@gmail.com');" target="_blank">dwnarvaez@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>On Thursday, 7 November 2013, Sean DALY wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I can think of a couple of approaches</div><div><br></div><div>* 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.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>* 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</div>
<div><br></div><div>1 Install virtualbox</div><div>2 Install a Sugar application (which would take care of setting up the appliance).</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts? Other ideas? If we can agree on one or two concrete, realistic approaches, I think we can at least attempt to get them done for 3.102.</div>
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