[IAEP] Windows is Coming

[Sebastian Silva]

El 21/05/16 a las 10:24, Dave Crossland escribió:

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> On 21 May 2016 at 02:18, Sebastian Silva <sebastian at fuentelibre.org
> <mailto:sebastian at fuentelibre.org>> wrote:
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>     There are huge interests invested in trying to sell Windows (and
>     Android) to our Latin American public education systems and us
>     supporting it would be counterproductive in my humble opinion
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> How do you propose to grow sugar usage 10x?
Glad you asked ;-)

We make Sugar good enough to be the default desktop in education-focused
GNU/Linux distributions.

The best strategy for this is making the Debian based Sugar experience
very polished.

Why Debian? Because it is the base GNU Linux distribution for massive
downstream educational distributions:
    - Canaima GNU/Linux is Debian based and has (according to Wikipedia)
3.3M deployed machines until 2014
    - Huayra GNU/Linux is Debian based and has (according to Wikipedia)
5M deployed machines until 2015
    - Many more.
Also, Debian is a democratic and solid organization.

Sugar has historically focused in Fedora only because Red Hat made an
investment in OLPC.

We already started a volunteer led project
<https://wiki.debian.org/SugarBlend/Huayruro> on this and had the
valuable contribution of Jonas Smeedegard and Siri Reiter who visited us
in Peru last year. Regrettably we have failed to get support from either
computer manufacturers or the Ministry of Education of Peru to pursue
this project, but it is very dear to my heart and I wish to be able to
continue it.

Having Sugar Activities not depend on Sugar is a first step to
disseminate the Sugar philosophy (of simplicity, collaboration,
reflection + hackability, forkability). So I worked on that on my own time.

10x our user base is rather small. I see Free Software as a societal
inevitability. To help speed this up, I would like to have a
GNU+Linux+Sugar distribution that is build to be sustainable and simple
to use, deploy and customize, that includes and respects the rest of the
Free Software stack. Pure Sugar is not ready, in my mind, to fill this
calling; it needs to integrate better with the rest of Free Software.
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