<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
7. I'll be giving a keynote at GUADEC<br>
[<a href="http://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org/" target="_blank">http://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org/</a>]; my plan is to both<br>
introduce Sugar to the broader desktop community (with the goal of<br>
recruiting more contributors), to sing the praises of the desktop—the<br>
cloud is not the solution to all problem—but also .articulate the need<br>
for more simplicity along the entire spectrum from developers to end<br>
users</blockquote><div><br></div></div>at least three interesting points there from walter<br><ol><li>sing the praises of the desktop</li><li>the cloud is not the solution to all problem</li><li>the need for more simplicity along the entire spectrum from developers to end users</li>
</ol>I'd love to hear an expansion of these positions<br><br>Also noticed recently that NN reacted against the "netbook" terminology: <a href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2009/07/xo-is-not-netbook.html">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2009/07/xo-is-not-netbook.html</a><br>
Negroponte: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Kids in Ethiopia don't have the internet in a nearby cloud ..."</span><br><br>And just noticed that the sugar labs home page describes the xo as a netbook: <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/">http://www.sugarlabs.org/</a><br>
<br>-- <br>Bill Kerr<br><a href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/</a><br>