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<p>El 21/05/16 a las 10:24, Dave Crossland escribió:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 21 May 2016 at 02:18, Sebastian
Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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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
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How do you propose to grow sugar usage 10x?
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Glad you asked ;-)<br>
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We make Sugar good enough to be the default desktop in
education-focused GNU/Linux distributions.<br>
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The best strategy for this is making the Debian based Sugar
experience very polished.<br>
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Why Debian? Because it is the base GNU Linux distribution for
massive downstream educational distributions:<br>
- Canaima GNU/Linux is Debian based and has (according to
Wikipedia) 3.3M deployed machines until 2014<br>
- Huayra GNU/Linux is Debian based and has (according to
Wikipedia) 5M deployed machines until 2015<br>
- Many more.<br>
Also, Debian is a democratic and solid organization.<br>
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Sugar has historically focused in Fedora only because Red Hat made
an investment in OLPC.<br>
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We already <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/SugarBlend/Huayruro">started
a volunteer led project</a> 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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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