On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 09:58:20PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > > 2008/4/22 Martin Edmund Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > 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. > > > You can join the imminent fork of Sugar, and we can continue to do it > > right. > > Suppose you were to do that. What would you actually change? I mean, I > don't see an imminent threat to Sugar and the constructivist Activity > ideal besides the recent AP article and rampant rumors.
If Negroponte were to drop Linux and Open Firmware, then all of that would fall to the forked project. If Microsoft wanted to push proprietary educational software, then the Activities would be forked as well. Presumably a lot of OLPC volunteers would walk. I'm suggesting a place for them to walk to. I expect that Red Hat and Ubuntu would support the fork, and I would have good hopes for Google. > On the other hand, by all means, go ahead and set up a mirror for > http://laptop.org servers and invite people to submit patches, if you > believe that will help grow the community. Save it from destruction, rather. Anyway, not yet. But yes, git, Trac, Pootle, Wiki, lists... I'm asking others here what they think. -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
