On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Kim Toufectis commented on my post [1] about online services: > > :Appreciative of the ideals upon which SugarLabs and OLPC formed, it’s > deeply troubling to envision a commercial entity like FaceBook > integrated into the Control Panel. > > :For a system in which a proprietary browser (Opera) or plugin (Adobe > Flash) are controversial even as optional add-ons, can we really be > headed for integrating a private corporation into the heart of the > OS?This is very difficult to understand… > > My response: > > There are several issues raised by our proposal (none of this code has > yet been reviewed and accepted): > > (a) Should Sugar facilitate integration with online services? > +1 go to where the kids are. (b) If so, should we do it in such a way that is service-provider agnostic? > +1 > (c) Why specifically are we working on a Facebook plugin? > > There are certainly caveats: First, Facebook is not for children. Really? I know a lot of children on Facebook. Also the new Scratch 2.0 is going to have a Share to: Facebook and Twitter, along with Youtube uploading at some point. And look at the ages of Scratch users<http://stats.scratch.mit.edu/community/usersbyage.html>. That said as a parents of four young ones (or as our kids call us "Ma and Pa Luddite") we did our best to keep them off Facebook as long as possible. > My intention is to provide a mechanism for teachers, not children. > Why not both? Isn't our goal to engage kids? Social networking is where they are. Of course once its there its there for both. Second, Facebook does not provide a place for file (project) sharing, > just a place for talking about projects. We will need other services > for that (dare I say, Google Drive). File sharing would be wonderful. +2 It would also be nice to be able to "embed" a running project in a web page (when we get to the point where the projects can run in a web page :) Stephen
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