On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: > 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.
Found a thread that might be helpful. http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2013-September/044819.html cheers, Sameer > > 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
