Re: [Sugar-devel] different perspectives

2013-11-08 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Sean DALY wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:56 AM, David Farning > wrote: >> >> The highest rate of progress happens when the parties focus on getting >> ahead of the other guys rather then when they focus on holding others >> back. Progress tends to stop when on

Re: [Sugar-devel] different perspectives

2013-11-08 Thread Sean DALY
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:56 AM, David Farning wrote: > The highest rate of progress happens when the parties focus on getting > ahead of the other guys rather then when they focus on holding others > back. Progress tends to stop when one party gets so far ahead that it > is not worth it for others

Re: [Sugar-devel] different perspectives

2013-11-07 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Dear Community, > > As I was listening to the interviews of some of the OLPC SF Summit > attendees, I was amazed at the richness of diversity in perspectives. > In spite of being a part of this community since July 2007, and trying > to keep up

Re: [Sugar-devel] different perspectives

2013-11-06 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Dear Community, > > As I was listening to the interviews of some of the OLPC SF Summit > attendees, I was amazed at the richness of diversity in perspectives. > In spite of being a part of this community since July 2007, and trying > to keep up

Re: [Sugar-devel] different perspectives

2013-11-05 Thread Lionel Laské
Great thread idea ! I must answer. > 1) What brought you into the OLPC and/or Sugar project(s)? I've subscribed to the first G1G1. The laptop was terribly late and I've planned it for my child's birthday so I bought another on eBay. Once I've got the XO in my hand, I fall in love of it. So I've

Re: [Sugar-devel] different perspectives

2013-11-05 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Dear Community, > > As I was listening to the interviews of some of the OLPC SF Summit > attendees, I was amazed at the richness of diversity in perspectives. > In spite of being a part of this community since July 2007, and trying > to keep u

Re: [Sugar-devel] different perspectives

2013-11-04 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 07:50:52PM -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: > 1) What brought you into the OLPC and/or Sugar project(s)? Jim Gettys. An inspirational technical leader, who asked the open source and Linux community for volunteers, in about May 2006. At the time, I was comfortably employed and n

[Sugar-devel] different perspectives

2013-11-04 Thread Sameer Verma
Dear Community, As I was listening to the interviews of some of the OLPC SF Summit attendees, I was amazed at the richness of diversity in perspectives. In spite of being a part of this community since July 2007, and trying to keep up with all that is OLPC and Sugar, these interviews threw me off