[Marketing] OLPC's dream lives on in Sugar

[Sean DALY]

Hi Bernie

Walter had sent me a heads-up about this one.

Professor Negroponte responded in a comment
(http://www.undispatch.com/node/8867) which an editor reprinted.

I'm not seeing comments under the story - were they removed?

This piece is entirely from secondary sources - all she did was read a
handful of negative articles. She didn't contact OLPC (or Sugar Labs
for that matter), she didn't bother reading any case studies. She
didn't speak with any teachers or Learners. Would she even be
interested in painting a truer picture? Hard to tell... when an
article is that slanted without presenting an opposing point of view,
it's a warning sign.

Usually, the way I prefer dealing with sloppy journalism (as opposed
to out-and-out hatchet jobs) is to add the author to our mailing list.
One or two press releases later, they realize we exist and are alive
and kicking.

However, Nicholas' comment, and yours, as well as the fact that this
blog likely has wide NGO and government readership, has changed my
mind on this one. Walter, I agree, let's respond, but to the editor,
not the author.

thanks

Sean



On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> Yesterday an article titled "One Laptop Per Child - The Dream is Over"
> appeared on the UN Dispatch web site:
>
>  http://www.undispatch.com/node/8859#comment-349
>
>
> I posted the following comment:
>
> -----cut-----
> Few people are aware that Sugar [LINK], the collaborative learning
> environment developed for the One Laptop Per Child project, is now an
> independent Open Source project delivering a rich set of activities for
> low-age children.
>
> Sugar can be used with any hardware capable of running a Linux desktop,
> including many low-cost netbooks and existing computers in school labs.
> Using the Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) [LINK] distribution, children can
> carry their personal copy of Sugar in their pockets and use it both in
> school and at home.
> -----cut-----
>
> Perhaps we could send UN Dispatch an entire article about Sugar?  Do we
> already have an introductory piece on Sugar suitable for magazines and
> blogs?
>
> --
>   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
>  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/
>
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