[Sugar-devel] Sugar talk and Hackfest at IIT-M,India

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Vamsi Krishna
Davuluri<vamsi.davuluri at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for replying!
>
>> Might be good to organize some of the less engineering focused
>> participants to form language teams. We still need more localization
>> work done in the local languages.
>
> I understand. But can you please elaborate on the Language teams??
>

Please see http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Translation_Team


>>
>> Another way of saying the same thing is: Education is part of the
>> solution to every problem facing the next generation. While we cannot
>> solve problems for them, we can give them tools so that they can
>> become a generation of problem solvers.
>
> Right, I had something like this in the back of my head.
>>
>> (I'd leave the open and free argument as part of your answer to the
>> next question.)
>>
>> > "We already have desktops, how is sugar special"
>> >
>> > My answer: "Sugar is aimed at a very younger audience, and a very light
>> > machine. And besides,
>> > we are very young; soon there will be a boom"
>>
>> (1) Sugar is designed to meet the needs of young children learning--it
>> puts an emphasis on guided discovery, collaboration, and reflection.
>> It is not just a repackaging of an 1970s-inspired office desktop. (2)
>> Sugar is built on free and open software because learning requires
>> more than just access to knowledge--it also requires the ability to
>> appropriate knowledge and put it to use. Sugar encourages and
>> facilitates such appropriation through mechanisms such as "view
>> source." (3) Sugar is designed to run on small, old, slow machines,
>> e.g., it can breath new life into existing in hardware.
>
> This is very excellent! thanks!
>
> -Vamsi
>



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