On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Nicholas Doiron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ndoiron@andrew.cmu.edu">ndoiron@andrew.cmu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
This is a tremendously interesting but increasingly technical discussion.<br>
It's difficult to weigh pros and cons of an entire OS in an e-mail<br>
discussion.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd actually like to avoid the technical parts as much as possible (although I often can't help but respond).</div><div><br></div><div>What I'm most interested in are the community aspects:</div>
<div><br></div><div>a) What is the vision for Sugar going forward? What types of devices? What types of users?</div><div>b) How much energy/tolerance do people in the community have for "new things"?</div><div>
c) If a group goes off and tries something new, will it result in a painful split in the community?</div><div>d) Is SugarLabs closely tied to the idea of "sugar as it is now", or do they see themselves as part of a wide variety of sugar-like projects, with more-or-less use of the legacy code?</div>
<div>e) What are the *essential* goals of Sugar/SugarLabs? (cjb made a good start here!)</div><div>f) What does SugarLabs see as their most valuable products? Activities? SoaS-type whole systems? Community? Lesson plans? Pedagogy? Support?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Obviously, every reader is going to have slightly different answers to those questions, but through the multitude of voices a sense of the community spirit can be gleaned.<br> --scott</div><div><br></div>
</div>-- <br> ( <a href="http://cscott.net/">http://cscott.net/</a> )<br>