<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>(Intentionally top-posted)<br></div><div><br>On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><ul><li>A definite end-of-life date needs to put on XO-1 support. </li></ul></div></div></blockquote></span><div>Sure! What do you think that date should be, Sam? </div><div><br></div><div>What do other people think? <br><br>I offer that Sugar Labs should follow OLPC Inc's lead on this, and continue to support the XO-1 for as long as they are.</div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone know for how long OLPC will be supporting the XO-1?</div></div></div></blockquote><br></div>Historically I would have answered this by stating that OLPC likely will provide a public end-of-life schedule whenever they remove everyone from their about page {including Negroponte} that is no longer involved in the project.<br><br></div><div>Likewise you would get their lesson plans for Sugar when you tore them from OLPC's cold, dead hands.<br><br></div><div>There has never been a good relationship between OLPC's corporate
side and it's academia-based side. If there was at one point, no one
has told me stories from those days.<br><br></div><div>The corporate site of OLPC is extremely secretive compared to open-source projects.<br></div><div><br><br></div>But within the past few months, OLPC has added people and categories to <a href="http://one.laptop.org/about/people">http://one.laptop.org/about/people</a> , which makes me curious as to what they are up to. They also may have subtly rebranded the XO-4 Touch as the "XO Laptop Touch" a year or so ago.<br><br>Excluding James Cameron (since he's contracted by OLPC), has anyone been
keeping regular contact with OLPC to see what their wishes & concerns
are? <br><br>Perhaps Sugar should have a Community Manager who regularly meets with OLPC, deployments, and partners to see what they are up to, and what their concerns are.<br><br></div><div>For all we know, OLPC may be working on their next software project, just like One Education is. Said project may or may not include Sugar.<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>Sugar really needs OLPC or another large organization to champion its usage, and be a willing reference when other organizations ask about using it. Otherwise we may have a hard time growing Sugar beyond its current boundaries.<br><br>---<br></div><div>SJG<br></div></div></div>