Hello everyone, I am the volunteer who wanted to work towards the improvement of the website. I was wondering if we can discuss the UI for the website and hopefully get some new and improved content to put up on the website. My proposal <https://github.com/anindya/www-sugarlabs/tree/website-revamping>. Hosted here <http://anindya.github.io/www-sugarlabs>.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <godi...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > Hi Dan, > I don't know where you get these numbers. > Situation in every deployment is different. The only deployment that I > know that publish > reports with state of laptops is Plan Ceibal > The more recent numbers (Oct 2014) show 84% of laptops are working [1] > They also prepare a annual evaluation, about the use of the laptops > and other resources provided by the project. The latest is [2] > More information here [3] > > [1] > http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/art%C3%ADculo/noticias/institucionales/Evaluacion-del-Plan > [2] > http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/Documents/Evaluacion%20Anual%20Primaria%202013%20_Resumen%20Ejecutivo_.pdf > [3] > http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/art%C3%ADculo/noticias/institucionales/Evaluacion-del-Plan > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Dan Tenason <dan.tena...@mail.ru> wrote: > >> Is there any proof that sugar is used everyday by nearly 3 million >> children at stated on the website? My research from 2 countries which have >> purchased over 100,000 laptops has indicated that due to non-deliver, >> breakage, and disuse, the term 'used daily by 3 million children' is >> overstating use by an order of magnitude. >> >> Optimism can be valuable. Deceit, even if you mean well, is not >> appropriate when dealing with some of the worlds most needy populations. >> >> Dan >> >> >> Friday, April 10, 2015 5:49 PM -03:00 from Gonzalo Odiard < >> godi...@sugarlabs.org>: >> >> Today in #sugar, user anindya shared a new proposal to improve >> http://sugarlabs.org/ site (the proposal is >> anindya.github.io/www-sugarlabs) >> >> This is the third proposal from a volunteer in the last months. >> >> But in the different proposals, developers worked with the content >> available, >> then we have a new design, but the result is the same. And we, >> the developers usually are not good graphic designers. >> >> As discussed before we need: >> * Something simple and fast. >> * With a clear message. >> * With a professional design. >> * With links to places where the user can download easy ways to use Sugar >> (VM if the user don't use Linux) >> * A place to point developers to the right places. >> >> I know Walter contributed to the content, but I am sure he is not going >> to get angry, >> if I say he is not a marketing guy. (Me neither, of course) >> >> Sean said we need images and he requested that in the past without >> success. >> Maybe we can try again? >> >> We still need a graphic designer (someone in IAEP available?) >> >> It's possible work in the sugarlabs.org as a project, with the marketing >> guys, >> the developers and the designers together? I sent this mail to >> sugar-devel, >> IAEP and marketing lists. We can follow where is better. >> >> -- >> Gonzalo Odiard >> >> SugarLabs - Software for children learning >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> <https://e.mail.ru/compose?To=IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org> >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> >> >> > > > -- > Gonzalo Odiard > > SugarLabs - Software for children learning >
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