[IAEP] [sugar] OLPC's bizarre behaviors

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 23.05.2008, at 06:34, Alex Belits wrote:

> Right, it's to make a "big announcement" that addresses none of those
> questions, and provides no information that is going to be relevant to
> the public for at least two years (and likely longer because  
> development
> timeframe sounds pretty unrealistic in the absence of massive  
> volunteer
> support).
>
> If I was anywhere close to OLPC management I would recommend to avoid
> any announcements before they can clearly and unambiguously announce
> some kind of position and plans for continuing development of the
> current project that can be seriously taken as immutable for the
> foreseeable future. Especially announcements that require 3D mockups  
> in
> place of actual prototypes.

Well, if this happened behind closed doors then people would demand to  
make it known ;)

But seriously, the new design needs to be anticipated by the developer  
community, development from now on should take into account the future  
hardware directions. So I for one hope that developers will be  
informed of anticipated hardware changes as early as possible. And  
hopefully even early enough to give feedback.

- Bert -