On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 12:28 +0100, Daniel Narvaez wrote: > I don't think we should be suggestive of Sugar on a tablet until we > have a minimally realistic idea of how to get it done. There is enough > talk about this Sugar-on-Android which is not coming... :) > > > Though you are right that the Cubox-i might send the wrong message. I > was seeing it more like a vehicle for the software but, yeah, the > hardware won't be ignored. It would a better way to demo to developers > or possible hardware partners. > > > Another idea. Sugar in a web browser. It would be the easiest to get > running for the users and it's consistent with the current direction > of development. Lots of work left to have enough activities for it to > be a compelling experience... Maybe virtualized Sugar is the short > term goal, Sugar in a web browser is the long term one. > > On Friday, 8 November 2013, Yioryos Asprobounitis 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. > > > > Although the hardware specs are a good target for Sugar3, I > believe that suggesting a really small box with 5 cables > connected to it to showcase a K-9 educational platform, may > retract from the feasibility and thoroughness of the project. Agreed, but when presented as Sugar_on_a_Set_Top_Box, this is not so unusual. Screwed to the back of a monitor, with power from the monitor, and wifi, the wires can be reduced to zero.
Iain Brown Douglas > A decent rooted tablet (ie Nexus 7) running Sugar on top of > Linux, even if the performance is not the best, would be much > more catchy and maybe suggestive of a Sugar-on-Android to > come. > You can still do the CuBox thing but not for journalists and > teachers. > > > * 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). > > > > This is certainly a good idea but it must work as advertised > ie in 1 click after the VM software is installed. > I would only add Parallels-VM/VMware appliances since may > already be present in these closed OSs and can really provide > "a single click to Sugar". > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > -- > Daniel Narvaez > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel