On 4 November 2013 22:53, Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: > * It's not clear to me where we are going. The OLPC/Sugar development > ecosystem seems to be at a crossroads. I am encouraged by the web activity > work, but don't understand the path of transposing the value proposition of > Sugar (interface, Journal, collaboration, Activities) to handheld tactile > devices (tablets to smartphones). PCs (of any size) with keyboards are no > longer competitive with tablets for grade-school classroom use. Perhaps the > XO-4 could still be in the running; there is no clear message from OLPC. >
I'll try to express briefly my feelings about the directions the project could take. Note that I might be missing a lot of what is going on above the technical level. * The XO is not a viable hardware platform other than for existing deployments. OLPC is pretty clearly going in a different direction. * Sugar web activities on the top of a full Android loses too much of the Sugar value proposition. It's great to have it in addition to Sugar-the-OS, but it's not enough alone. * From the technical point of view there are several ways to get Sugar-the-OS running on tactile devices. Unfortunately it's not clear to me that any of these devices is open enough to be viable for deployments or "ordinary" users. -- Daniel Narvaez
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