Re: [IAEP] adding or updating an Activity: two typical teacher scenarios, let's lower barrier to installation

2009-05-28 Thread Sean DALY
when in doubt, users will connect download in their familiar browser... when Sugar is running in a VM window on a big Mac screen, it's natural to open Safari and fetch something... anyone in their first hour with Sugar won't know immediately which icon is the browser and if they do, they might

Re: [IAEP] adding or updating an Activity: two typical teacher scenarios, let's lower barrier to installation

2009-05-28 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:52:05AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: Perhaps this clarification could be useful in the copy. [...] when in doubt, users will connect download in their familiar browser... when Sugar is running in a VM window on a big Mac screen, it's natural to open Safari and fetch

Re: [IAEP] adding or updating an Activity: two typical teacher scenarios, let's lower barrier to installation

2009-05-28 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 18:03, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 27 May 2009, at 15:35, Sean DALY wrote: Scenario 1: Let's say I'm a teacher reading about Sugar in a magazine. I consider myself comfortable with computers, visit the web every day, but have never used the command

[IAEP] adding or updating an Activity: two typical teacher scenarios, let's lower barrier to installation

2009-05-27 Thread Sean DALY
Scenario 1: Let's say I'm a teacher reading about Sugar in a magazine. I consider myself comfortable with computers, visit the web every day, but have never used the command line. I've succeeded in downloading SoaS, loading it onto a stick with the Fedora LiveUSB Creator and booting my PC with

Re: [IAEP] adding or updating an Activity: two typical teacher scenarios, let's lower barrier to installation

2009-05-27 Thread Gary C Martin
On 27 May 2009, at 15:35, Sean DALY wrote: Scenario 1: Let's say I'm a teacher reading about Sugar in a magazine. I consider myself comfortable with computers, visit the web every day, but have never used the command line. I've succeeded in downloading SoaS, loading it onto a stick with the

Re: [IAEP] adding or updating an Activity: two typical teacher scenarios, let's lower barrier to installation

2009-05-27 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 04:35:10PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: Scenario 1: [soas] Scenario 2: [soas in virtualbox] [...] The Marketing Team can help write installation tips copy if necessary. I think it's obvious to most here but perhaps not to our audience: these scenarios are cases of the