cc'ing Marketing as well. On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis <mavrot...@yahoo.com> 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. > 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.
I agree that to showcase Sugar, a tablet would be a better platform than Raspberry Pi, or Cubox-1, etc. Ruben Rodriguez showed us a Nexus 7 tablet running sugar at the OLPC SF summit. This build was running on top of Ubuntu desktop for ARM. We also had a Nexus 7 that was running the Ubuntu Touch (for phone and tablets) and Ruben thought it would perhaps be a better platform for running Sugar on a ARM tablet instead of his approach. I haven't followed up with him, but I'm cc'ing him as well. cheers, Sameer > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel