Scott's been away for 2 years from our global community summits but is
suddenly very curious, asking lots of great and difficult questions
thankfully.
Several of which we've actually answered remarkably in his absence (thru
http://olpcMAP.net, Realness Summit,
http://olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2010/people.php , Sugar Camp
Bolzano/Paris and beyond) but many others not yet ;)
Subject: Re: [IAEP] For Sugar Everywhere, Google-ize!
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:35:44 -0500
From: C. Scott Ananian <csc...@cscott.net>
To: Nicholas Doiron <ndoi...@andrew.cmu.edu>
CC: IAEP <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org>
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Nicholas Doiron
<ndoi...@andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:ndoi...@andrew.cmu.edu>> wrote:
This is a tremendously interesting but increasingly technical
discussion.
It's difficult to weigh pros and cons of an entire OS in an e-mail
discussion.
I'd actually like to avoid the technical parts as much as possible
(although I often can't help but respond).
What I'm most interested in are the community aspects:
a) What is the vision for Sugar going forward? What types of devices?
What types of users?
b) How much energy/tolerance do people in the community have for "new
things"?
c) If a group goes off and tries something new, will it result in a
painful split in the community?
d) Is SugarLabs closely tied to the idea of "sugar as it is now", or do
they see themselves as part of a wide variety of sugar-like projects,
with more-or-less use of the legacy code?
e) What are the *essential* goals of Sugar/SugarLabs? (cjb made a good
start here!)
f) What does SugarLabs see as their most valuable products? Activities?
SoaS-type whole systems? Community? Lesson plans? Pedagogy? Support?
Obviously, every reader is going to have slightly different answers to
those questions, but through the multitude of voices a sense of the
community spirit can be gleaned.
--scott
--
( http://cscott.net/ )
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