[sugar] A few thoughts on SugarLabs

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

This is exactly what I think about it. Thanks so much for writing it
down so clearly.

Marco

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
> Recently, I've encountered several people who seem to be looking for
> perspective on the relationship between OLPC and SugarLabs. I'd like
> to offer a few thoughts for them to chew on:
>
>  1. Sugar is good enough to be interesting to lots of people in the
>     world, in particular, people who don't have XOs.
>
>  2. In order to reach more people, Sugar needs to be "natively
>     accessible", e.g. by being packaged for their favorite
>     distributions (and operating systems, as we start looking at the
>     larger world).
>
>  3. We would like more contributions; even if some of them do not fit
>     with the user experience we want to provide on the XO. SugarLabs is
>     a fine place to capture many kinds of contributions.
>
>  4. Finally, insofar as OLPC and its partners continue to pay the
>     salaries of Sugar developers, supply useful infrastructure, and
>     represent the largest chunk of the Sugar install base, OLPC and
>     its partners will continue to have a lot of say in the development
>     of Sugar.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
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