On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:43 PM, DancesWithCars <danceswithc...@gmail.com>wrote:
> while the first part stated your case, > the second felt a little below the belt... > > I don't know the workload of OLPC > but assuming infinite resources > is probably unwise. > Dances, I would never assume infinite resources, quite the contrary, I am arguing in favor of OLPC leveraging upstream resources to the greatest extent possible. Let me offer some praise to soften what you saw as a low blow. OLPC's outreach to the Fedora upstream (as exemplified by the fine work done by Peter Robinson) remains strong and precisely the sort of upstream engagement that will bring Sugar / OLPC the resources it needs to leverage the impact of their limited internal resources with a broader community effort. I am particularly grateful to Peter for the work he is doing on SOAS5 and (from my personal perspective) anticipate that this will be a very important tool for helping the localizers that I seek to recruit experience Sugar (without XOs) and produce better localizations. Daniel Drake is doing critical (and more importantly, timely) work on exploring the path forward through the gtk2 > gtk3 PyGTK > PyGi changes coming from the GNOME upstream. I won't even pretend to understand Daniel's work on upstreaming kernel patches, but I do understand that it is of immense importance. Being something of a "virtual" distro producer is that challenge that OLPC has taken on by focusing on the hardware, but the one "resource" that is indispensable to OLPC is situational awareness of the complex and ever shifting software environment in which it operates. It is sadly a matter of record that OLPC has been bitten by upstream / supplier tools that did not necessarily work as advertised, I seem to recall wireless and touchpad related issues. It is my opinion that AbiWord is important, although I am aware that there has stirrings concerning OOo4kids. I posted the AbiWord announcement to the devel list in the spirit of raising awareness of important changes on the horizon in a package that OLPC should be monitoring (as well as celebrating the culmination of work OLPC initiated some time ago). cjl
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