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@@ -61,8 +61,6 @@ learning it on their own driven by their own passion.
  * **Would you like to learn a little bit of Python with Pippy?**
  * B: Very well!
 
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 Then Benedicto and I got started. Python is easy, you can explain the basics to a smart kid in less than 30 minutes.
 I've shown him a few Pippy examples, describing the code briefly before running it, then making small changes to make
 Benedicto grasp the possibilities. From his questions and comments, I'm pretty sure that he could figure out the
@@ -72,6 +70,73 @@ We also updated Benedicto's and Nadia's laptops to [[http://oficina.paraguayeduc
 which contains the latest release of [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.84/Notes | Sugar 0.84]]. Benedicto had been previously
 testing my build 45, revealing some bugs in networking and activities.
 
+== Mon, Mar 8 - Children like Sugar, for the wrong reasons ==
+
+|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cyber_nick/00001.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Cyber Nick, Fernando's XO repair lab in Caacupe }}        || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cyber_nick/00029.jpg  | maxwidth=480 | Kids asking to install Sugar 0.84 in front of Cyber Nick's lab }} ||
+
+A few days ago, Fernando the owner of the Caacupe XO support center, wrote to us:
+
+{{{
+El 8 de marzo de 2010 14:51, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés escribió:
+> Como va la migración a Fedora 11 hasta ahora?
+> Número aproximado de máquinas actualizadas?
+
+Raúl, la verdad que todo bien hasta ahora, los chicos están muy entusiasmados con la
+nueva versión, y hacen correr la voz, creo que unos 120 equipos ya lo hicimos hasta
+ahora más o menos.
+}}}
+
+Google translation with my corrctions:
+
+{{{
+On March 8 2010 14:51, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés wrote:
+> How is the migration to Fedora 11 going so far? Approximate number
+> of machines to date?
+
+Raul, the truth that it's going smooth so far, the boys are very excited
+about the new version, and the rumor is spreading fast. I think so far
+my team updated 120 laptops, more or less.
+}}}
+
+I witnessed it with my own eyes: every day, children are lining up in front of Cyber Nick's
+door early in the morning, and keep coming all day until the evening.
+
+All of them ask for the new version, bui in interesting ways: a little boy said:
+"Quiero poner ventanas coloradas" (I want colored windows). They're obviously referring
+to the Gnome desktop, also known as "salva pantallas" (screensaver).
+
+Another kid admired his freshly installed Gnome desktop and proudly declared: "Ahora tienen Windows!"
+(now I have Windows). In Spanish, therre's no ambiguity on the meaning of the word Windoews.
+
+Power of brand. It doesn't rmatter if it's the actual Windows, or even if it really does
+something useful. It's new, it's colored and it's what adults are using. Oh, and it also comes
+with a really cool screensaver.
+
+Quick! Let's add all this crap to Sugar! :-)
+
+Of course not, but could we do anything to appeal more to kids? By now, I think I've observed
+our young users closely enough to be able to predict what they're really after:
+
+More configurabiity.
+
+{{pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/escuela_691_profesora_gudelia_cabrera/00048.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Shy girls hiding behind their Barbie-fashioned laptops }}
+
+Yeah, dozen of scientific studies showed how users almost never customize the desktops beyond
+setting a background image. Kids, however, are a lot more passionate about their precious
+laptop than the average office clerk using Windows. They //do// customize the exterior of
+their laptops with stickers.
+
+Believe it or not, many of these kids set the random icon layout (aka "the Negroponte layout"),
+because it lets them drag icons around and arrange them in clever ways. I could take screenshot
+to prove it.
+
+And what was the gray color scale in our UI supposed to mean? I was explained it once, and it
+seemed to make sense, but I forgot. And, whatver the reason was, kids are unlikely to agree
+with us.
+
+Let's give them a control panel icon to customize colors as they wish, or they'll switch
+to Gnome //en masse//. I can't blame them, either. What would you have done when you were 8?
+
 
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