<div dir="ltr">Dave,<div><br></div><div>I don't use Sugar daily now, but a few years ago I did. I was looking for a good way to read Project Gutenberg etexts and Kindles were going for $399. That was the year of "Give One, Get One" and for the price of a Kindle I could get an XO laptop for myself plus another for a child I would never meet. It sounded like a good deal so I went for it.</div><div><br></div><div>The Read Activity in the XO only supported PDF's to begin with, which was a disappointment. I decided to learn how to program the XO so I could make my own ebook Activity and ended up making several, including one for plain text files and two different ones for comic books in .cbz format. I also made an Activity that made it easy to search for and download ebooks from the Internet Archive.</div><div><br></div><div>Learning how to do this led me to write two manuals for the project: one on programming Sugar Activities and a second one on finding and creating ebooks. The first book was translated into Spanish by a team of volunteers,</div><div><br></div><div>I used my XO to read ebooks just about every day, I read some really obscure ones like Edison's Conquest Of Mars by G. P. Serviss,</div><div><br></div><div>My manuals got published on Create Space and in the Kindle and Nook Stores, and learning how to do that led to many other publishing writing and publishing projects.</div><div><br></div><div>I haven't used my XO in a long time. Kindles and tablets got better and cheaper, and my primary interest in the XO was as an e-reader so it got left behind. However, it is fair to say that Sugar gave me a good constructionist education and led to me doing a lot of interesting projects that I would not have done otherwise. Considering that I am fifty years older than the target audience for Sugar I'd have to say that's pretty good.</div><div><br></div><div>James Simmons</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</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">Hi<div><br></div><div>That's a great idea :) I added it to the end of <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Vision_proposal_2016" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Vision_proposal_2016</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 May 2016 at 06:28, Gonzalo Odiard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:godiard@gmail.com" target="_blank">godiard@gmail.com</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">One of my nephews has been diagnosed with a autism related condition.<div>Even when he does not speak, he connected fast with the simple Sugar interface and activities,</div><div>and use the text to speech feature.</div><div>I know this is not our main target, but I think it's interesting to know it.</div><div><br></div><div>Gonzalo</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Laura Vargas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:laura@somosazucar.org" target="_blank">laura@somosazucar.org</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><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-05-30 10:56 GMT+08:00 Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 May 2016 at 19:10, Laura Vargas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:laura@somosazucar.org" target="_blank">laura@somosazucar.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">I believe Sugar is a powerful tool for other homeschoolers as well.</blockquote></div><br></span>I agree, I think the unschooling home/parent market has high product/market-fit potential :)
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