> The new Sucrose[1] 0.81.1 Development Release is out! I was enthusiastic about the OLPC. It offered to improve the lives of the economically disadvantaged through technology (i.e., by affordably providing computational assistance). Sugar was part of that offer -- a "new look" at how persons lacking "developed world" exposure could still learn to make use of computational assistance. I eagerly installed the latest builds on my XO, to see for myself how things (for instance, the redesigned Sugar UI) worked.
The project has matured; to me it seems an "enclave" of developers has formed, with their own facilities and procedures. Products will "trickle down" to places like Nepal as the "enclave" releases them. For interested parties wanting to "follow" product evolution as it is being fashioned (or to try to install their own modifications), the minimum environment (for example, for looking at Sucrose) now seems to be a laptop (or bigger) with jhbuild installed. While jhbuild facilitates the work of the "enclave", does its inclusion in the mainline development path act to inhibit "outsiders" (who may be from the economically disadvantaged group originally supported by the OLPC project) from contributing ? mikus _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
