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Scott's been away for 2 years from our global community summits but
is suddenly very curious, asking lots of great and difficult
questions thankfully.<br>
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Several of which we've actually answered remarkably in his absence
(thru <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a>, Realness Summit,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2010/people.php">http://olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2010/people.php</a> , Sugar Camp
Bolzano/Paris and beyond) but many others not yet ;)<br>
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<td>Re: [IAEP] For Sugar Everywhere, Google-ize!</td>
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<td>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:35:44 -0500</td>
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<th valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap">From: </th>
<td>C. Scott Ananian <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cscott@cscott.net"><cscott@cscott.net></a></td>
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<td>Nicholas Doiron <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ndoiron@andrew.cmu.edu"><ndoiron@andrew.cmu.edu></a></td>
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<td>IAEP <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org"><iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org></a></td>
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Nicholas Doiron <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ndoiron@andrew.cmu.edu">ndoiron@andrew.cmu.edu</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;
border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); 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>
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<div>I'd actually like to avoid the technical parts as much as
possible (although I often can't help but respond).</div>
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<div>What I'm most interested in are the community aspects:</div>
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<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>
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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>
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<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>
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-- <br>
( <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://cscott.net/">http://cscott.net/</a> )<br>
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