On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarv...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4 November 2013 22:53, Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> * It's not clear to me where we are going. The OLPC/Sugar development >> ecosystem seems to be at a crossroads. I am encouraged by the web activity >> work, but don't understand the path of transposing the value proposition of >> Sugar (interface, Journal, collaboration, Activities) to handheld tactile >> devices (tablets to smartphones). PCs (of any size) with keyboards are no >> longer competitive with tablets for grade-school classroom use. Perhaps the >> XO-4 could still be in the running; there is no clear message from OLPC. > > > > I'll try to express briefly my feelings about the directions the project > could take. Note that I might be missing a lot of what is going on above the > technical level. > > * The XO is not a viable hardware platform other than for existing > deployments. OLPC is pretty clearly going in a different direction.
I may be alone in thinking that there will be some runway left with the XO. But deployments need alternatives regardless. > * Sugar web activities on the top of a full Android loses too much of the > Sugar value proposition. It's great to have it in addition to Sugar-the-OS, > but it's not enough alone. I agree. > * From the technical point of view there are several ways to get > Sugar-the-OS running on tactile devices. Unfortunately it's not clear to me > that any of these devices is open enough to be viable for deployments or > "ordinary" users. We looked at ChromeOS a few years back, but at the time it was too heavy for our hardware. Today, it is a different story. Might be a viable option. Certainly running GNU/Linux/Sugar on a ChromeBook is not a bad starting point. > > -- > Daniel Narvaez > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing