[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2008-06-29

[Walter Bender]

> As an aside, imagine if people could use the same tools/skills to
> develop software for their brother's XO and their family's mobile.

This is a point I hadn't considered. While I think that most all of
the skills children learn with Sugar are transferable to other
platforms, people still seem to raise it in regard to the Microsoft
question. The more explicit that transfer can be, the more obvious it
becomes that learning learning should be the most important
consideration.

-walter

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
> <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>   > 15:00 Sugar on mobile phones: is it possible? does it make sense?
>>>
>>> I had trouble following this one -- I couldn't make out an argument for
>>> why Sugar on mobile phones might make sense to begin with.  Can anyone
>>> provide one?
>>
>> I think the idea is that expanding the user base of Sugar would have
>> positive effects for the projects, especially on the external
>> contributions. It's similar to get Sugar running on traditional linux
>> distributions...
>
> Yes, same here. In my opinion, even if no Sugar code could be directly
> reused, having another project using the same technologies (cairo,
> gtk+, python, etc) in low-power hardware and sharing some of the new
> HCI proposals could be very beneficial for us.
>
> As an aside, imagine if people could use the same tools/skills to
> develop software for their brother's XO and their family's mobile.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
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