[IAEP] netbook as terminology

[Bill Kerr]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> 7. I'll be giving a keynote at GUADEC
> [http://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org/]; my plan is to both
> introduce Sugar to the broader desktop community (with the goal of
> recruiting more contributors), to sing the praises of the desktop—the
> cloud is not the solution to all problem—but also .articulate the need
> for more simplicity along the entire spectrum from developers to end
> users


at least three interesting points there from walter

   1. sing the praises of the desktop
   2. the cloud is not the solution to all problem
   3. the need for more simplicity along the entire spectrum from developers
   to end users

I'd love to hear an expansion of these positions

Also noticed recently that NN reacted against the "netbook" terminology:
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2009/07/xo-is-not-netbook.html
Negroponte: "Kids in Ethiopia don't have the internet in a nearby cloud ..."

And just noticed that the sugar labs home page describes the xo as a
netbook: http://www.sugarlabs.org/

-- 
Bill Kerr
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/
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