[IAEP] [SLOBS] Sugar Labs 2010 Goals Review

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:04 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at cscott.net> wrote:
>> I think an honest assessment would indicate that OLPC has done some
>> initial work on supporting touchscreen devices, but that SugarLabs has
>> not (so far). (...)
>
> SugarLabs is where many developers get together. Similar to 'linux dev
> community' vs 'RH linux kernel developers'.
>
> So if OLPC developers that hack on Sugar do that work, the SL dev
> community is doing it.

Sorry, I certainly didn't mean to reopen this old schism.  I just
meant to suggest that SugarLabs move a bit towards internalizing
touchscreen devices as part of the "support for mobile" which was in
the 2010 goals.

When the year-end 2010 goal assessment is written, of course it's
entirely appropriate to include Sayamindu's onscreen keyboard (for
example) as part of SugarLabs progress towards supporting "mobile
devices" -- especially if that support makes it into (say) SoaS and
the other SugarLabs projects.

OLPC developers' work is only separate if SugarLabs sees it as not
advancing the SugarLabs mission.  I'm suggesting that SugarLabs fully
embrace touchscreens as part of its "mobile device" mission (and 2010
goals), not suggesting that this is somehow something that "they" are
doing that "we" should be doing, or some such.

This is just a friendly discussion of goals & progress towards them,
not a who-did-what fight.
  --scott

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