<div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 25, 2017 6:27 PM, "Walter Bender" <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="quoted-text">On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 5:39 AM, Sam Parkinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sam@sam.today" target="_blank">sam@sam.today</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Sat, 2017-02-25 at 08:36 +0530, Dave Crossland wrote:<br>
> Actually I am not convinced of this; I do not believe that the latest<br>
> releases of the Python codebase reach classrooms, and the js codebase<br>
> only reaches one. <br>
><br>
> One of the projects listed is social help. It's a fine idea, but a<br>
> cursory look at the site shows it has extremely low activity. I think<br>
> it would be better to shut it down. <br>
<br>
</span>Sugar tries to literally replace every part of the computer that a user<br>
sees. And believe it or not; that is a hard goal for a small free<br>
software community. 3 people in their spare time can't replace the<br>
years of work poured into every other desktop environment & their<br>
software.<br>
<br>
You're 100% spot on. The future of SL is things like TurtleJS.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I am obviously a fan of Turtle (and Music Blocks), but I am convinced that, for example, Sugar on Raspberry PI has a big future. It is a very experience, relatively easy to set up, and a good fit for the maker space. We should push hard to really make the process smooth and robust.</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sugar or sugarizer? 😂</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">How many classrooms do we know of using the latest sugar release on pi hardware? 🤣</div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"></div></div>