Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] The future of Sugar on XO-1s

2016-04-06 Thread Sean DALY 
On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Dave Crossland  wrote:

> How many kids is Sugar targetting?
>
> Low millions? Or billions?
>


A few years ago, I estimated at around 10 million the number of teachers in
classrooms with younger children, and I suggested we target them. Any
teacher-friendly, ultrasimple, reliable setup and maintenance Sugar
solution could work towards that goal. I believe the very simplest and most
reliable is Sugar/GNU preinstalled on rugged hardware (XOs and possible
alternatives). Followed I suppose by Sugar in a browser, then Sugar/GNU in
a VM, bootable Sugar/GNU on a card/stick, finally Sugar installed to a GNU
distro.

In my view Sugarizer has a very key role to play - overcoming the
unfamiliarity barrier for teachers. Which could, ironically, boost the
opportunities of the Sugar/GNU solutions.

I do feel that View Source is a key differentiator of Sugar, and I
subscribe to the "low floor, no ceiling" idea.

Sean.
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Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] FW: Commenting on Treasurer Motions Enabled!

2016-04-06 Thread Dave Crossland 
On 6 April 2016 at 04:58, Sean DALY  wrote:

>
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:19 PM, Dave Crossland  wrote:
>
>> I agree that it would be awesome if someone holding the Treasurer office
>> was also actively fund raising for the project!
>>
>
>
> Fundraising requires a clear vision & roadmap - positioning, technical -
> and the associated marketing materials (read: expenses). And, of course,
> someone organized enough to find prospects / develop suspects / select
> leads / cultivate opportunities - the sales cycle is time-consuming. FLOSS
> projects are not historically strong in this. But the TA grant is a
> fabulous success in adverse circumstances, and can be a springboard.
>

I agree completely :)
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Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] FW: Commenting on Treasurer Motions Enabled!

2016-04-06 Thread Sean DALY 
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:19 PM, Dave Crossland  wrote:

> I agree that it would be awesome if someone holding the Treasurer office
> was also actively fund raising for the project!
>


Fundraising requires a clear vision & roadmap - positioning, technical -
and the associated marketing materials (read: expenses). And, of course,
someone organized enough to find prospects / develop suspects / select
leads / cultivate opportunities - the sales cycle is time-consuming. FLOSS
projects are not historically strong in this. But the TA grant is a
fabulous success in adverse circumstances, and can be a springboard.

Sean.
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