On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 19:55 -0400, John Watlington wrote: > On Aug 8, 2010, at 7:15 PM, Neil Graham wrote: > > > There is a small open handheld console. http://www.openpandora.org/ > > http://pandorapress.net/ The openness and friendliness of the community > > environment is a model for how things can work. > > The support page on that wiki points you to enter the bug in their bug > tracker. > What part of Pandora were you holding up as an example of better practices ? > > wad Goodness I didn't realise the difference was that profound. Community involvement is not a link on a webpage. If that is the level of interaction that you have been looking at then you haven't even been in the right book let alone on the right page.
I doubt I ever clicked on that link, yet I know how many Pandora's are out there, where the various components of the as yet unassembled Pandora's are, what has been the most recent problem in getting them going. I don't actually have a Pandora but I know that the first few units had sticky shoulder buttons, I also know that was due to the paint, and what they did to solve the problem. There is a huge amount of transparency that just isn't there with OLPC. Perhaps that was out of necessity, most Pandora purchasers paid one or two years ago. You can't ask people for a million dollars then not produce anything for a year without letting them know something is happening. Nevertheless it has much better results. There isn't the them and us feel. The Pandora has been out maybe a month now. About a thousand units shipped. It has FireFox Chromium FBReader, Fennic, Pingus, Dink Smallwood, Pandora Panic, Lmarbles, Ur-Quan Masters, Quake 3, emulators for Linx,Amiga, MSX, psx, Oric, Amstrad CPC, PDP-11, Vice, DosBox little fairies didn't bring me that information, and neither did they port all that software. Perhaps what is needed is a KDE to olpc's gnome in order to lift the game of both. But really, I'm about done. I might just go and do other things. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel