> > I think you do not give enough credit to the work being done > by Sugar > Labs volunteers and local communities (given that > appropriation of > technology is almost a goal in > itself). More developers are always > welcome. >
I can appreciate that this is a public list and the responses must conform to this fact, but I think that John Gilmore said/asked/thought 2 things a) make those *old* machines run even more efficient software over time b) add high leverage features to the *old* machines I do not think that are any examples of these but I'll be happy to be corrected. More important I do not think that these are stated goals of OLPC, SugarLabs or any big deployment. I would appreciate links to the opposite but in their absence, more engineers, volunteers or testers are not going to help a lot the 2 "wishes" above. As a matter of fact what is happening is an (understandable) effort to stay as close to the upstreams (Fedora/Gnome/Python) as possible and only work within the framework that they provide, whatever this might be and the priorities it may fulfill. A lot of the time and major effort is pend to just adopt to these changes. The reason for that is lack of the person-power needed to pursue alternatives, as thay are believed to be more demanding than adapting to whatever comes from upstream. However, with a couple of millions "embedded-class" open code machines in the hands of learners few years now, and several hundreds support personnel, these 2 things, being even a low priority but to some extend pursued/fostered goals, may have provided some inspiration and fruition. If indeed they are believed worthy goals, is never too late. The XO-1s are still out there. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
