On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Christian Marc Schmidt < christianm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we'd need to know the specific points of contention. I can't > imagine which design decisions might work less well on PCs. Sugar remains > significantly easier to use than standard PC operating systems... Put Sugar in front of the average adult sitting alone, without any instruction, for 20 minutes. I doubt many of them would agree with you. Thats not how Sugar was designed to be used, but it is the conditions under which it is usually evaluated. I think this is one of our marketing challenges. > > > Christian > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Eben Eliason <eben.elia...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> "Sugar is a very good interface for the OLPC computers it was made >> for, but many of the design decisions and interfaces don't work nearly >> as well on standard PCs." >> >> I'm curious what people think about this statement. I tend to agree >> that some design decisions were biased toward the XO-1 hardware, but I >> don't think that any of the decisions actually fail on a "standard >> PC", and I actually think Sugar scales pretty well in terms of >> interaction. However, if we can assume their perspective and locate >> some areas which aren't ideal on all hardware, perhaps we can work on >> resolving them. Anyone have some examples? >> >> - Eben >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > It claims to be a standalone home computer environment for kids, not a >> > classroom environment. >> > >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Bernie Innocenti <ber...@codewiz.org> >> wrote: >> >> ,Josh williams wrote: >> >>> Looks like a Microsoft project, they're hosted on IIS and the site is >> >>> written in ASP. >> >> >> >> Might also be a bad choice of web hosting provider. The entire ISO >> >> image contains free software. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ >> >> \X/ Sugar Labs - http://www.sugarlabs.org/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > >> > > > > -- > anyth...@christianmarcschmidt.com > > http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com > > 917/ 575 0013 > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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