Yeah, that kind of thinking is why I worry that you will fail utterly. --scott
On Thursday, June 3, 2010, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/03/2010 01:45 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > >> My suggestion would be to first convene a "ground up rethink" of what >> a touch-based Sugar could be. > ... >> The result should be a >> *book*, which describes the ideal UI. That will be the long term >> (think, next decade!) goals for Sugar. > > That's a nice idea, but we have a deadline. In a year or less, OLPC needs > a release-quality OS build for touch-screen tablet. People can also > engage in some long-term dreaming, but OLPC cannot wait for it. > > Getting to something _good_ in a year is going to happen by incremental > improvement, even if there were real money available for development (and > I haven't heard of any big $$ so far). The immediate interesting question > to me is whether that incremental improvement is best started from current > Sugar, or whether there is something to be gained by starting from Meego, > or some other effort. > > --Ben > > -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
