I don't see promoting strengths as mutually exclusive with researching weaknesses.
But Sugar's crusade reminds me a lot of Les Miserables. Being too insistent on ideals may cause others to abandon their support. Perhaps we should ask marketing to do a SWOT (Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats) analysis. However we might not have enough funds for more than an online survey of current/past users and indirect friends of the project. On Jun 23, 2016 8:21 AM, "Walter Bender" <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Samuel Greenfeld <sam...@greenfeld.org> > wrote: > >> Historically there have been several organizations financially supporting >> Sugar development. >> >> But at least some of those have left, others have reduced their >> contributions, and it is unclear to me if any new groups have made >> significant tangible investments in the project. >> >> The XO laptop and icon, both commonly associated with Sugar, are OLPC >> trademarks. There is nothing stopping anyone from licensing these and >> putting applications in the Android/Apple/Chromebook stores claiming to be >> "Based on Sugar" with a new "Journal" interface. >> >> In short: Sugar is having trouble expanding beyond its current territory, >> or at least publicly appears to be. >> >> So this week I thought of a couple of questions: >> >> - What would cause you and/or your school(s) to stop using Sugar? >> - What would another project have to offer in order for it to be used >> instead? >> - When would it be a good idea to move everyone to a new project? >> - Under what circumstances should Sugar Labs be shutdown? >> >> If we can answer these questions, maybe we can reform Sugar to better >> meet these competitive challenges. >> >> > I guess I have a different vision of Sugar than you. I am interested in > our creating a best-of-breed pedagogical framework what hopefully will see > wide dissemination in schools, but also will show the way forward for the > ed tech community as a whole, which I think tends to focus on market share > more than learning outcomes. What I would like from marketing is some > mechanism for highlighting the powerful ideas in Sugar that seem to be > lacking in most other systems so that even if a school decides to go with a > different product/project, they put pressure on that project to provide > tools, not apps, collaboration, transparency, self reflection and group > critique, and responsibility on the shoulders of students and teachers to > shape their own world. So personally, I find your questions irrelevant to > my goals. > > -walter > >> _______________________________________________ >> Marketing mailing list >> Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing >> >> > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > <http://www.sugarlabs.org> >
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