I read the following today: "A healthy [project] is, confusingly, one at odds with itself. There is a > healthy part which is attempting to normalize and to create predictability, > and there needs to be another part that is tasked with building something > new that is going to disrupt and eventually destroy that normality." ( > http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2012/03/13/hacking_is_important.html > )
So, in this vein, I'd like to encourage Sugar-folk to read the short paper Chris Ball, Michael Stone, and I just submitted (to IDC 2012) on Nell, our design for XO-3 software for the reading project: http://cscott.net/Publications/OLPC/idc2012.pdf You're expected not to like it: this is supposed to be the Barbarian viewpoint. ;-) Regardless, I've love to hear feedback on what exactly you didn't like, so that I can improve the arguments for the final published version (assuming the paper gets accepted). Thanks! --scott -- ( http://cscott.net )
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