[Sugar-devel] [karma] early draft of karma presentation

[Bryan Berry]

On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 13:57 -0400, Joshua Gay wrote:
> Bryan, 
> 
> This is looking good so far. Here are some initial thoughts, 
> 
> * It would be good to have a handout that puts all this info on a
> single double side sheet of paper (a suggestion taken from Edward
> Tufte's essay "The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint) for people to read
> along with and to look at afterward. 
> * I think overall it can be trimmed down abit when it is being pitched
> to specific groups (e.g., JS crowd). 
Definitely, this draft was just a brain dump and much of the text should
be moved to notes

I will try to put together an executive summary as you suggest

> * I would update the slide "Nobody Wants to Help", to something like,
> "Flash is a poor longterm solution."

Agreed, diplomacy is good move ;)

btw, i have a high opinion of the gnash, gameswf folks. It is the
rank-and-file flash devs that aren't sharing their libraries

>  examples of the kinds of things you would like to use this library to
> create. 



> I had some other thoughts on the internationalization parts, too. I
> will try to respond later with them. The short of it is that I think
> the examples you gave me (in our phone call) about gettext being an
> overly-burdonsome approach for JS made a lot of sense and I think it
> would also help to explain that you are looking for the JS equivalent
> of gettext; kind of abstract this part away from your specific needs
> as an organization, and talk about how this could benefit projects in
> general. 
> 
> -Josh 
agreed

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Bryan W. Berry
Technology Director
OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org