Hi all, during the last weeks people from three different pilot projects have asked me what's going on inside OLPC. I couldn't answer them satisfactorily because I know very little more than what anyone from the community would know (and I like it that way).
What worried me is that people were making their plans with Sugar playing some part on them, and now fear that Sugar will stop being supported. Let me state three things: - OLPC has been the biggest single contributor to Sugar until now. - OLPC has recently stated publicly that will continue supporting Sugar [1]. People have some doubts about what this means, but I hope this will be clarified soon. - Not trying to subtract importance to the support that OLPC has given, but the resources that have been invested until now can be easily supplied by the community. There were NOT 40 engineers working full time in Sugar [2] at any point. Rather closer to a 10% of that [3]. To summarize, Sugar is getting closer to its (original, consensual) goals and will continue to do so at an increasing speed. Keep tuned and remember that everyone is welcome to this community of us. [1] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20080423/05688667/attachment.htm [2] http://blogs.technet.com/jamesu/archive/2007/12/05/olpc-in-the-news-part-2.aspx [3] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-April/004971.html Good luck on your dreams of better education for everyone, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
