[Its.an.education.project] Sugar talk at PyCon Due

[Bernie Innocenti]

Tomeu Vizoso wrote:

>> Without knowing how much time we have I've tentatively set objectives
>> as follows:
>>
>>  - Really short introduction of One Laptop Per Child, Sugar, and
>>   Constructionism
>>
>>  - The subtle distinction between OLPC and olpc
>>
>>  - The OLPC mission, the 5 principles
>>
>>  - Summary of what Negroponte announced publicly, with a
>>   few quoted excerpts
>>
>>  - Why this plan alienated employees, volunteers and grassroots
>>   from the uppercase OLPC
>>
>>  - A few quotes from GregDeK, RMS, Walter Bender, etc.
>>
>>  - Who we are and what we are up to
>>
>>  - Call for help from the Python and FLOSS community
>>
>> How does it sounds?
>>
>> Walter, you are of course invited, and you should do the speech if you can.
>> I'm not such a good speaker, and I think the ought to be given in English
>> to reach the widest possible audience. Marco, same offer to you.  I'm going
>> to do it only as the last resort :-)
> 
> What about a less confrontational message in the spirit of
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-April/005292.html ?

Very well put.  Thanks for helping me smoothing out my tones!


> Instead of directly menacing with a fork or walk away, firmly
> remembering that Sugar is too big to be perverted as a laptop-selling
> tool may work better for the upcoming negotiations with OLPC.

You have a point here too.  Wanna come to Florence for a
talk next week? :-)

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