[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] idea for Sugar slogan and name

[Gary C Martin]

On 12 Jan 2009, at 12:20, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 13:16, Erik Blankinship  
> <erikb at mediamods.com> wrote:
>> Perhaps I am stating the obvious, but the suggestions are very  
>> suggestive of
>> Candyland.
>> http://bp1.blogger.com/_GBSubG7_qbw/Rj_u39QVD7I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/YAZ3WRMdYbU/s1600-h/Candyland-1949.JPG
>>
>> http://www.mipo37.com/CandyLand.jpg
>
> The molasses swamp reminded me that we should do some more performance
> work after the feature freeze.

LOL :-)

+1

--G

>
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de 
>> >
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I guess Bryan thinks of it as a play on "Mathland" (in Papert's  
>>> sense,
>>> not the curriculum of the same name). The name of squeakland.org was
>>> inspired by the same idea:
>>>
>>> "What would happen if children who can't do math grew up in  
>>> Mathland,
>>> a place that is to math what France is to French?" --S.P.
>>>
>>> Also see
>>>
>>> http://www.kusasa.org/background/mathland/mathland.html
>>>
>>> - Bert -
>>>
>>> On 12.01.2009, at 06:36, Wade Brainerd wrote:
>>>
>>>> I personally prefer 'Sugar' over 'Sugarland'.  The latter seems a  
>>>> bit
>>>> like another world, where I think people want to be educated to
>>>> succeed in the real one.
>>>>
>>>> SugarLand might appeal more to children.  But then we would also  
>>>> want
>>>> to make the UI less focused and more like a video game, which I  
>>>> don't
>>>> necessarily agree with.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Wade
>>>>
>>>> On 1/11/09, Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org> wrote:
>>>>> my apologies ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> What do you guys think?
>>>>>
>>>>> Playground : Where kids learn and play
>>>>>
>>>>> or
>>>>>
>>>>> SugarLand: where kids learn and play
>>>>>
>>>>> or
>>>>>
>>>>> Sugar: Where kids learn and play
>>>>>
>>>>> w/ transpositions of learn and play
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 19:05 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>>>>> Btw, we are having this discussion in the development list, thus
>>>>>> only
>>>>>> including geeks :p
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [adding iaep and marketing to cc]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 17:54, imm <ian.m.macarthur at talktalk.net>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 11 Jan 2009, at 15:43, Bryan Berry wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "Sugar: A Place to Play and Learn"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have trouble saying this 3x quickly due to the repetition  
>>>>>>>> of the
>>>>>>>> "Pla"
>>>>>>>> sound. It may sound trivial but it does affect our ability to
>>>>>>>> repeat it
>>>>>>>> often and consistently
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes - me too, that's why I thought the "Learn and Play" form  
>>>>>>> flowed
>>>>>>> better... I liked the sounds of that first form, but the  
>>>>>>> concept of
>>>>>>> the second form.
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> imm
>>>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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