Just reading through the issue now. Looks nice overall, although I haven't read
all of the sections (since I have een reading them on the Wiki as they are
written :P ) but I have noticed that in the GRAMPS section there is a repeated
paragraph:
"As suggested earlier, documenting research findings are key to proving the
validity of the genealogical data. The 'source ' is the reference for each item
of data, that gives it credibility. There can be many items of data within a
source and GRAMPS has a 'scratch pad' that allows you to copy source reference
between individuals within your tree . To your individual you can, add media,
such as photographs, sound and movie clips that can be display or linked to
from within the database ."
I think the OLPC news item is a little off too, since a) it is not really
competing with current desktops like GNOME and KDE, just that they weren't
suitable for the machines and their goals (collaboration, easily readable
source (eg. all in Python), etc.) b) getting away from the bare bones of the
system really isn't the point (otherwise the machines wouldn't have a key on
the keyboard for "View Source", would they?) and judging from the Human
Interface Guidelines, the bundled applications are by no means ready for the
final machine (saving files, for example, will eventually be replaced with an
abstraction layer allowing projects to be assigned cooperative authorship
("this bit was written by XXX" kind of thing, to encourage collaboration and to
verify homework) and histories). I did rewrite this article on the Wiki a while
ago, and admittedly my version was less news-like, but I like the OLPC project
a lot and try to work through people's confusion wherever possible :)
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