+1 (in spirit to fixing challenges with Sugar as a FLOSS community) On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Bastien <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Sean, > > I've not closely followed all these discussions, so obviously I'm > not in the best position to provide good arguments, but here is my > gut feeling about this. > > I see three challenges: put Sugar in the hands of many kids, build > a healthy FLOSS community, raise funds. The latter is just a means > to other ends, so let's only consider the first two ones. > > I strongly believe Sugar should focus on building a great FLOSS > community first, before trying to reach as many kids as possible. > This is not to say that getting more users is orthogonal to better > working as a community---it isn't. But the way you get the users is > by being a great community with a distinct product, not by landing on > the hardware people have. I may sound idealistic (if not romantic) > about this, but I strongly believe it. > > I know (and I read) everyone's effort about this, and I've seen > some great step in this direction. Let's build on this! > > Sugar can be the greatest FLOSS community in education. The day > it is recognized as such, people will come and contribute with new > activities, just like Gcompris joined. Maybe you know the AbulÉdu* > suite (http://www.abuledu.org/) ... there are many FLOSS educational > resources there. But I can't get them switching to Sugar because... > they use Ubuntu and want apt-get install sugar which is only half > working. That's sad. > > Also think of this in terms of marketing: it's easier to market > the greatest FLOSS community for education, than to market a software > suite on Android. In this later case, we are just marketing Android. > > I'm done with the rant. And of course, I would not feel so strongly > about this if I was not aware about everyone's effort about Sugar. > > Thanks! > > -- > Bastien > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Anish | [email protected]
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