On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Michael Stone <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 12:25:13PM -0800, Bryan Berry wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 15:18 -0500, Walter Bender wrote: >> >>> (3) We need lots more Activities. >> >> While there is consensus on this point, there is not consensus on the >> best way to get a lot more Activities. That is, pulling a lot more >> developers into building learning activities that run on Sugar. > > I see some orthogonal proposals at work: > a) supply better compatibility with existing X11 apps. > > b) offer genuine support for popular software platforms (e.g. flash > and java?) even on space-constrained hardware platforms like the > XO. > > c) catalyze the creation and improvement of free authoring and > remixing environments for popular mime-types uncovered by existing > free offerings or the available environments are unusable on the > available hardware > > Consequently, it seems to me that the most useful political discussion > we can have now is over how to work through the obvious conflict between > the "libre" folks and the "usability" folks. Thoughts?
I guess I am slow. Can you spell out this "obvious" conflict in the context of this discussion? > > Michael > > P.S. - (By all means, please continue the practical idea-by-idea > brainstorming occuring on Tomeu's thread in parallel with this > meta-thread!) > -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
