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We, everybody who are participating the project, including Albert, John, Bert and myself, are working for a greater cause; that is to empower children all over the world via computer technology and education. There are some difference of opinions, but let us not lose the sight of the bigger goal. Etoys is already installed millions of computers, and children all over the world have been using it several years. If we get Etoys to the hands of more children, more children can exchange projects, share ideas, work together, and unite. It doesn't matter whether the computer they use is XO or not because Etoys happens to run everywhere. And, on XO, I heard from people at deployments/pilots often that Etoys is one of the most important activity. So, I think that trying to get Etoys into major Linux distributions serves for the greater cause. Of course, even if Etoys gets in a Linux distribution, not every user/developer has to work on Etoys nor everybody has to understand how it is implemented. For those, it is just several unfamiliar files on their disk and there is absolutely no harm. On the other hand, we would like to get more people to help Etoys development And I can assure you that you can go deeper than any other systems once you dive in. Please join us! Even if your only computer is XO, you can participate as good as the core developers. (If you are good, you can join/take over the core team, in fact.) Also, please think about making a similar/better system in any other languages. Alan Kay gave a keynote speach at Euro Python a few years ago and urged the community to think about it. It seems that a few project got started but it takes years to be somewhat usable. Finally, thank you for everybody who have been involved in the actual process of getting Etoys accepted to these distributions! -- Yoshiki In a sense, Albert, John, Frank and others are kindly playing the devil's adovocate role so that we can write stuff that we usually don't. Thank you guys, too^^; _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel