Please disregard my Scratch related summary. Scratch was a typo, should have been Squeak.
sorry david On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Alan Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to separate terms .... > > Squeak is a free open source Smalltalk found at www.squeak.org. > > Etoys is written in Squeak (by Viewpoints Research). > > Scratch is also written in Squeak by Mitchel Resnick's group at MIT. > > They are different "activities" (in the OLPC sense) but were written using > the same portable environment. > > Cheers, > > Alan > > ------------------------------ > *From:* David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *To:* iaep <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, November 9, 2008 3:01:48 AM > *Subject:* [IAEP] Distributing Scratch - a summary > > Again, we had a productive thread about packaging Scratch on Linux > Distributions. > > The discussion by members of distributions and product communities about > their own communities' history and practices has been great! > > Sugar Labs Goals. > Sugar Labs is working to make the best possible learning platform available > to the most kids. Squeak Etoy is an important part of that platform. As > such, we would like to help facilitate the distribution of Squeak on Linux > distributions. > > Source of Conflict. > The core issues appears to be that Scratch, as distributed from upstream, > is provided in a format that is unfamiliar to downstream packagers and > distribution. This unfamiliarity is being expressed as a concern by the > three distributions involved in this discussion. > > Effects of Conflict. > The unfamiliarity has resulted in a number of concerns, real or perceived, > on the behalf of the distributions. I am not making a statement of fact > that the concerns listed below are real or perceived. I am listing them as > issues that will needs to be communicated between upstream and the > distributions. > 1. License. > 1. Availability of source code. > 2. Maintainability of code by downstream. > 3. Security. > > Action Item. > Flesh out, and move this discussion to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I > will start that discussion with the participants of this thread cc:ed later > this week. > > thanks > david > > >
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