On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarv...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 31 October 2013 19:31, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: >> >> > Here's OLPC's mission, as a reminder: >> > >> > Mission Statement: To create educational opportunities for the world's >> > poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, >> > low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for >> > collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. >> > >> >> I think we all share concerns about the future of OLPCA (Indeed, I >> left OLPC in 2008 to start Sugar Labs in part because of my concerns >> about strategy and pedagogy.) That said, I continue to work in support >> of OLPC's efforts since I believe that they are still a viable vehicle >> to reach millions of children. But Sugar Labs is not OLPC. And Sugar >> Labs has a future independent of OLPC. In 2008 we made a decision as a >> community to be agnostic about hardware to the extent possible and >> that is reflected in our code. In 2010, we made the decision to make >> HTML5/Javascript a first-class development environment for Sugar with >> the goals of both reaching more kids and attracting more developers. >> This is work in progress, but we (Manuq and Daniel) have made great >> strides. We face further challenges ahead. But our mission remains: >> >> to produce, distribute, and support the use of the Sugar learning >> platform; it is a support base and gathering place for the community >> of educators and developers to create, extend, teach, and learn with >> the Sugar learning platform. > > > > Both being hardware agnostic and OS agnostic make sense at a certain level. > But I feel like Sugar Labs needs one or more well defined flagship products > to focus on. That gives us something to market, to test, to design for. > > The only Sugar based product which has really been successful until now is > the XO. And that makes us still very dependent on OLPC strategies. > > Given the uncertainity of the OLPC situation (or rather it seems pretty > certain that their investement on Sugar has been heavily scaled down), I > think Sugar Labs should try to come up with another flagship product to > focus on. Sugar on Raspberry? Sugar as a cross OS application? Sugar on some > custom built (by who?) piece of hardware? I don't know but I feel it's > something we will need to figure out.
I think we should be having this discussion with the Sugar deployments. They by-and-large remain committed to Sugar even if they are uncertain about the base platform. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel