For the past couple of years, our homepage has linked the Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) badge to the SoaS page [1] and the "download" menu item and "Try it with a child today" link to the Downloads page [2].
The downloads page rightly in my view orients visitors by platform, but the two largest market share desktop/laptop OSes (Windows & MacOS, 96% or so of market) only give instructions for Sugar on a Stick and the "Do you use a virtual machine?" link misses the excellent VMs available (in particular the VMs of... SoaS!). I think teachers will self-classify by OS and virtually none of them will self-classify as virtual machine users. Teachers will also expect pancake button 1-click installers (this was confirmed by Sloan Marketlab study), problematic with SoaS due to necessary USB stick manipulation and still a bit hairy on a Mac. I think Windows section and Mac section should both propose choice of SoaS and using VirtualBox with a SoaS VM, explaining benefits of each method in layman's terms. VMs are far less disruptive for trying Sugar, as a teacher can download to hard disk, install and run, keeping usual apps going (mail, browser, word processing) while experiencing Sugar. The downside is of course massive files to download, but that could be mitigated with torrents and/or mirrors. Comment please before we get into wiki editing of this crucial page thanks Sean [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/DocumentationTeam/Try_Sugar _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing
