Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Child in charge of FOSS or Sugar

2010-09-20 Thread forster
> *Tony* - *"Having a FOSS culture means that lots of smaller design > decisions are made which empower the learner"* Soren I find it a bit strange being asked to explain FOSS culture. I run Windows on my computer and see myself as a little bit of an outsider. It is, I guess, difficult to def

Re: [IAEP] Child in charge of FOSS or Sugar

2010-09-20 Thread Søren Hougesen
*Tony* - *"Having a FOSS culture means that lots of smaller design decisions are made which empower the learner"* I'm interested to know more about this FOSS culture. As I've understand it, Sugar (-Lab) is part of a this greater FOSS culture. At the same time I find it difficult to capture the c

Re: [IAEP] Child in charge of FOSS or Sugar

2010-09-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 04:01, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Søren Hougesen > wrote: >> For about a month ago, I asked as a curious outsider, if kids were actually >> hacking sugar. > > Two factors are important here: > >  - We all have very high and complex expectatio

Re: [IAEP] Child in charge of FOSS or Sugar

2010-09-20 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 09/18/2010 04:01 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Søren Hougesen > wrote: >> For about a month ago, I asked as a curious outsider, if kids were actually >> hacking sugar. > > Two factors are important here: > > - We all have very high and complex expectations for

[IAEP] comments in the code (was Re: Child in charge of FOSS or Sugar)

2010-09-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 00:31, Tim McNamara wrote: > > There are other forces at play. I recall one thread on the development list > that said there should not be in-code documentation in order to maintain the > quality of the contributions of prospective developers. The reasoning was > that if in