[Sugar-devel] Sugar tryout (was Re: sugarlabs.org redesign) [Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 61, Issue 55]

[satellit]

On 11/08/2013 03:28 AM, Daniel Narvaez wrote:
> I don't think we should be suggestive of Sugar on a tablet until we 
> have a minimally realistic idea of how to get it done. There is enough 
> talk about this Sugar-on-Android which is not coming... :)
>
> Though you are right that the Cubox-i might send the wrong message. I 
> was seeing it more like a vehicle for the software but, yeah, the 
> hardware won't be ignored. It would a better way to demo to developers 
> or possible hardware partners.
>
> Another idea. Sugar in a web browser. It would be the easiest to get 
> running for the users and it's consistent with the current direction 
> of development. Lots of work left to have enough activities for it to 
> be a compelling experience... Maybe virtualized Sugar is the short 
> term goal,* Sugar in a web browser is the long term one.
>
*Many of these are already available here:
  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Sugar-in-Virtualization
  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Virtual_machines

There are many distributions where sugar is supported:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Linux_distributions_where_Sugar_is_available

Tom Gilliard

  satellit on #sugar, #schoolserver, and #fedora-qa on freenode IRC

> On Friday, 8 November 2013, Yioryos Asprobounitis 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.
>     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".
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