[IAEP] Future Direction

[Tony Anderson]

Hi, Gonzalo

My sense is that a lot of the work in the past seven years has been in 
keeping Sugar up to date with
the upstream system - getting Sugar as a desktop in Fedora was a major 
effort. As you point out, this effort
was essential. Moving to first-class support for html5/css/javascript is 
an important step.

Adding the Gnome Desktop has been very helpful in selling educators that 
the XO is an effective lead-in to their Windows Office oriented secondary
school curriculum. There have been many valuable additions to the 
library of Sugar Activities.

I just think we should ask more often - what will this change do to 
improve the educational outcomes of primary school children? If we mount 
a major effort to rewrite Sugar in Python 3 - what is the delivered 
benefit to the user? If we rewrite Turtle Blocks in 
html5/css3/javascript, how have we improved its capabilities in the 
classroom? If we abandon etoys to maintain compatibility with Fedora, 
what has the end-user gained? Would a GSOC effort be better devoted to 
moving from Scratch 1 to Scratch 2 than rewriting imageviewer?

Tony


On 03/03/2015 08:41 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>
>     >This begs the question, what has changed between Sugar 0.82 and 0.104
>     >that significantly improves the value of the XO in primary school
>     >education in the Give 1 world?
>
>
> Ouch. Really? We worked for 5 years for nothing?

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