I've stayed away from this discussion until now. But for my own part, if the
OLPC becomes just another laptop running standard educational software of the
kind that inhabits my daughters primary school, I'm no longer interested in the
project.
I really bought into the new paradigm of pervasive collaboration and
constructionist education. I'm not particularly interested in a cheap laptop
clone and in any case I guess my own work on Write and abicollab will be
ditched for some stripped down version of MS Word.
It would nice to know if this is the new vision or not. If it is the new vision
I can stop wasting my time here.
Martin Sevior
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Stephen John Smoogen
Sent: Wed 4/23/2008 1:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: sugar; devel-list; Walter Bender; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [sugar] [Community-news] where is Walter?
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Stephen John Smoogen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Chris Preimesberger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Walter, you have been a shining light of good information for all this
time, and it's sad to see you pull away from the project. Sad to see
the project melting away, too -- at least that's my impression.
One standard thing I have seen is that every project goes through
these cycles. Developers/leaders leave a company, project or group
and the people who identified the project with those people post that
the project as shriveling up and dying. I remember people saying
this of Debian, early Linux kernel development, Red Hat, SuSE, GNOME,
KDE, etc. Sometimes its true, but mostly its a gut reaction because
our brains are wired to identify with 'leaders' for our survival. If
our leaders leave the tribe.. we should go with them. Its a deep urge
we all have but it is rarely rooted in 'reality' but in the minds way
of coming up with 'reasons'.
I am just commenting on this because its something I have seen over
and over again with companies, projects, and groups.. and it
interested me why one day I was all happy to be working for a company
and 2 days later was ready to leave because it was going to crap when
a developer I worked under left.
The big thing I learned was that companies, projects, groups, etc
change constantly, and people who thrive under some conditions
deteriorate under others.. and have to leave. And when that happens,
there are a lot of psychological shifts in the group where other
people stay and leave because various 'leaders' stayed or left.. in
some cases you end up with large scisms where people will no longer
talk with each other, and in other cases you have people agreeing to
disagree on where each group is going.
On the other hand, comments from the AP article can make me eat crow :)
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hXa0O9XLMsWfaqt-sI9FqFy2IewgD9074MH82
For about a year, however, Microsoft has been working to get a
slimmed-down version of Windows to run on XO laptops. As a result,
Negroponte said Tuesday that he expects XOs to soon have a dual-boot
option, meaning users would be able to run Windows or Sugar.
One current hang-up is whether the necessary hardware would add $7 to
$12 to an XO's cost, taking the project even further away from its
eventual goal of producing the machines for less than $100.
Eventually, Negroponte added, Windows might be the sole operating
system, and Sugar would be educational software running on top of it.
--
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice
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