I work as a researcher for a foundation which received a grant proposal for a laptop project. There were several issues which needed clarification. I suppose that can be seen as trolling.
Thanks and good luck with you project. Friday, April 17, 2015 8:11 AM -03:00 from Gonzalo Odiard <[email protected]>: >Dan, > >You was qualified as a troll because you said we should divide the 3M number >by 10 and you assume we were deceiving. > >See the Wikipedia definition of troll: >"In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord >on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting >inflammatory,[1] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community >(such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of >provoking readers into an emotional response[2] or of otherwise disrupting >normal on-topic discussion.[3]" > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll > >You asked your question in a thread started to discuss how improve the content >of sugarlabs.org site. >The site was not updated on a time, then if is true a percentage of machines >can be broken now, >was not crazy correlate the number of machines sold with our software to >number of users >at the moment the site was created. >But we also know there are cases where other hardware is used with Sugar, like >here [1] >and we know the numbers in Uruguay only, are more than 300.000 machines, then, >your comment looks completely wrong. > >At times I also think we are "too optimistic", but we need optimism >to work in a project like this. Don't assume bad intentions. > >The worst part is I have tried to start a discussion abut how to improve the >web site, >and instead of that we discuss about one line in the old web site, >and do not have any proposal for improvement. And that is the effect of >trolling, >stop others and not add anything positive to the conversation. > >Everybody here can contribute in a different way: programming, testing, >go to remote places and put solar panels in schools, write docs. >But not everybody _want_ contribute. > >Gonzalo > >[1] http://www.fenix951.com.ar/nuevo_2013/noticia.php?id=4552 > > >On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Dan Tenason < [email protected] > wrote: >>A few weeks ago I raised the question about how phrase three million daily >>users was calculated. The general line of thought in a thread on sugar-devel >>was we don't know but we think it is an optimistic figure based on the total >>number of laptops OLPC produced. Further analysis is hard and we can't be >>bothered to do it. Furthermore, anyone who questions the number is a troll. >> >>It would seem natural that an education project which promotes critical >>thinking would substantiate its own claims. If any organization tries to >>bury the numbers, one should ask why they are doing so. >> >>-- >>Dan Tenason >>_______________________________________________ >>IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>[email protected] >>http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > >-- >Gonzalo Odiard > >SugarLabs - Software for children learning >_______________________________________________ >IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >[email protected] >http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
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