Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] idea for Sugar slogan and name

2009-01-13 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:28:28AM +0530, Prakhar Agarwal wrote: > I like this: > "Sugar: Where kids Play and Learn" The one thing that jars a bit is the "kids" - IIRC this is only AmEng[0] for "children" (as the primary meaning); in English its primary meaning is "young goat"[1] and they always l

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] idea for Sugar slogan and name

2009-01-13 Thread Prakhar Agarwal
I like this: "Sugar: Where kids Play and Learn" Can we setup a wiki page for this? it will help us to get more suggestions. something like: http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_slogan Cheers! -- Prakhar Agarwal Linux User# 474643 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Prakhar "Life is the greatest teacher"

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] idea for Sugar slogan and name

2009-01-13 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 13.01.2009, at 17:53, Samuel Klein wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Bert Freudenberg > wrote: >> I guess Bryan thinks of it as a play on "Mathland" (in Papert's >> sense, >> not the curriculum of the same name). The name of squeakland.org was >> inspired by the same idea: >> >> "Wh

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] idea for Sugar slogan and name

2009-01-13 Thread Samuel Klein
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > I guess Bryan thinks of it as a play on "Mathland" (in Papert's sense, > not the curriculum of the same name). The name of squeakland.org was > inspired by the same idea: > > "What would happen if children who can't do math grew up in Math

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] idea for Sugar slogan and name

2009-01-13 Thread Morgan Collett
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 20:05, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Btw, we are having this discussion in the development list, thus only > including geeks :p Yes, it's pure luck we haven't had "Sugarland: Frag and Grok" proposed yet... Regards Morgan ___ Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] idea for Sugar slogan and name

2009-01-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 Jan 2009, at 12:20, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 13:16, Erik Blankinship > wrote: >> Perhaps I am stating the obvious, but the suggestions are very >> suggestive of >> Candyland. >> http://bp1.blogger.com/_GBSubG7_qbw/Rj_u39QVD7I/AGQ/YAZ3WRMdYbU/s1600-h/Candylan

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] idea for Sugar slogan and name

2009-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 13:16, Erik Blankinship wrote: > Perhaps I am stating the obvious, but the suggestions are very suggestive of > Candyland. > http://bp1.blogger.com/_GBSubG7_qbw/Rj_u39QVD7I/AGQ/YAZ3WRMdYbU/s1600-h/Candyland-1949.JPG > > http://www.mipo37.com/CandyLand.jpg The molas

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] idea for Sugar slogan and name

2009-01-12 Thread Erik Blankinship
Perhaps I am stating the obvious, but the suggestions are very suggestive of Candyland. http://bp1.blogger.com/_GBSubG7_qbw/Rj_u39QVD7I/AGQ/YAZ3WRMdYbU/s1600-h/Candyland-1949.JPG http://www.mipo37.com/CandyLand.jpg On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > I guess Bryan

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] idea for Sugar slogan and name

2009-01-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
I guess Bryan thinks of it as a play on "Mathland" (in Papert's sense, not the curriculum of the same name). The name of squeakland.org was inspired by the same idea: "What would happen if children who can’t do math grew up in Mathland, a place that is to math what France is to French?" --S.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] idea for Sugar slogan and name

2009-01-11 Thread Wade Brainerd
I personally prefer 'Sugar' over 'Sugarland'. The latter seems a bit like another world, where I think people want to be educated to succeed in the real one. SugarLand might appeal more to children. But then we would also want to make the UI less focused and more like a video game, which I don't