On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 04:01, Martin Langhoff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Søren Hougesen > <[email protected]> wrote: >> For about a month ago, I asked as a curious outsider, if kids were actually >> hacking sugar. > > Two factors are important here: > > - We all have very high and complex expectations for Sugar, so Sugar > itself is internally complex; and that trend is increasing. So to > actually hack in the core of Sugar you have to make a long trip of > discovery and learning. (Activities are a lot easier to hack.) > > - Sugar (and XOs) have not been in use for long enough! Sugar users > have only started their journey. Will they travel all the way to > hacking Sugar? Hard to know! If they are working on TurtleArt / > TurtleBlocks, EToys, Scratch or Pippy, they are on the right track.
I would also add that one thing is to be able to modify Sugar and another is to get those changes distributed upstream, in a particular distro, in your country, etc. At some point it stops being a local technical issue and starts being an issue of working together with groups of people from the government, from another city, another country, etc. Regards, Tomeu > hth, > > > > m > -- > [email protected] > [email protected] -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
