Not only doable, has been done for some time now [1,2] and is multi-platform (& what I use to demo Sugar on a Mac)
The Oracle PUEL license [3] very interestingly permits free redistribution for educational purposes, opening the possibility of a single installer, ideal for our needs. In the past I have suggested approaching Oracle for a marketing partnership under a CSR (corporate social responsibility) banner. Sean 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VirtualBox 2. https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/VirtualBox 2. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonz...@laptop.org> wrote: > At least the virtualbox looks doable and a good way to show Sugar. > > Gonzalo > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarv...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Thursday, 7 November 2013, Sean DALY 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. >> >> * 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). >> >> Thoughts? Other ideas? If we can agree on one or two concrete, >> realistic approaches, I think we can at least attempt to get them done for >> 3.102. >> >> >> -- >> Daniel Narvaez >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Marketing mailing list >> Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing >> >> >
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