<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Hi Tony,</div><div><br></div><div>+1 on this.</div><div><br></div><div>BTW Sugar/Python is not the only way to grow user base.<br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards.</div><div><br></div><div> Lionel.<br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le lun. 15 avr. 2019 à 11:03, <<a href="mailto:sugar-devel-request@lists.sugarlabs.org">sugar-devel-request@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:42:52 +0800<br>
From: Tony Anderson <<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Outreach Plans 2019 - PyCon Cleveland<br>
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What Sugar Labs needs to survive is users. If our count of active users <br>
reaches zero, there will be no need for developers (or Sugar Labs).<br>
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A Conference like PyCon is an opportunity to show that Sugar is a viable <br>
educational platform. So marketing does not need to be concerned about <br>
$, it needs to be concerned about the characteristics of Sugar that make <br>
it an attractive option for educators. At such a conference it is <br>
possible to make presentations - ofen there is an educational track. <br>
More importantly there is an opportunity to have an exhibit (booth). <br>
This booth can provide many examples of Sugar running on platforms other <br>
than the XO (make sure there some XO pictures visible since this <br>
attracts interest to a booth.) Sugarizer can demonstrate that Sugar is <br>
available for smartphones, tablets and other devices. Sugar can show its <br>
capabilities on Ubuntu, Raspbian. Windows is a special case since <br>
Miccrosoft has been able to lock educators into Windows. Showing that <br>
Sugar is viable in a Windows-based deployment may be beyond our current <br>
cabability.<br>
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Our goal should be to attract new contributors and to find new <br>
deployment opportunities.<br>
<br>
Tony<br>
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