[Sugar-devel] [Marketing] Debrief of Sugar on a Stick v1 Strawberry launch for all teams

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:12, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> * No OLPC briefing beforehand.
> The authors of the key articles in this launch sought comment from
> OLPC, who provided an odd statement from Professor Negroponte, odd
> enough that it was heavily edited or truncated by the journalists. The
> BBC published more of the quote than anyone, obliging us to respond
> that NN hadn't understood the tech. The statement did not make sense
> and was out of phase with what is currently under development, namely
> a Gnome/Sugar choice of default desktop similar to Apple's OS9/OSX
> solution of a few years ago. We are in contact with OLPC's PR people
> so as to smooth bumps prior to launches; perhaps Adam Holt can help us
> in this regard as well.

First of all, congratulations on this enormous success!

People not with us one year ago can read in this thread a bit about
NN's views on Sugar:

http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2008-April/thread.html#5307

Regards,

Tomeu