[SoaS] [DP]Question One

[Martin Dengler]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 08:05:47PM -0500, David Farning wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com> wrote:
> > Sugar Labs, a volunteer-driven, non-profit organization, is a member
> > project of the Software Freedom Conservancy. The mission of Sugar Labs
> > is to support the Sugar community of users and developers and
> > establish regional, Sugar around the world to help learn how to by
> > tailoring Sugar to local languages and curricula.
> >
> > can not be accomplished at this time without a Sugar Labs produced
> > distribution (or perhaps more accurately a 'spin' of some pre-existing
> > distribution).
> 
> One of the primary reasons for Spinning Sugar Labs off from OLPC was
> to create a abstraction barrier between upstream sugar development and
> OLPC specific needs.  How did that abstraction barrier strengthen or
> weaken OLPC and Sugar Labs decision making and development process?

The lack of abstraction barrier helped OLPC ship a hardware + software
product.  The barrier helps OLPC and Sugar Labs build on the strengths
of each hardware- / software-production process.

> What has changed in the last 18 months to make those abstraction
> barriers more or less necessary?

Nothing.  Their necessity has been strengthened: the processes and
audiences have grown apart (SL is not supporting 1 million XO-1s in
use).

> How will those abstraction barriers be affected by having Sugar Labs
> produce a distribution?

They'll be torn down.

> david

Martin
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