[Sugar-devel] The future of Sugar on XO-1s

[James Cameron]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 07:37:45AM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote:
> 
> Hi James
> 
> On 1 April 2016 at 15:06, James Cameron <[1]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>     Let me spin you a tail.
> 
>     The myth of forward human development doesn't apply to software.
> 
>     This is a parade of people, several walking abreast, beside a slow
>     moving flat bed truck, all holding on to a ribbon.
> 
>     The truck is the world, and the internet as it stands.
> 
>     The first person, next to the truck, are our learners or users.
> 
>     The second person is Sugar Labs; with our activities, and Sugar.
> 
>     The third person is distributions of Linux, like Fedora and Ubuntu,
> 
>     The fourth person are the hardware vendors, like commodity suppliers
>     or OLPC.
> 
>     The fifth person are the Linux kernel developers.
> 
>     As the procession walks beside the truck, the ribbon is not always
>     straight.
> 
>     Some people walk faster than others.  Some let go of the ribbon and
>     others take their place.
> 
>     I'm glad you're here, you're bringing a new perspective.
> 
>     But the ribbon is actually toilet paper, so the pressure to keep up,
>     while real, doesn't get felt, instead the paper breaks.
> 
>     Do not target a rapidly diminishing enthusiastic group, or the future
>     users will suffer.
> 
> I'm sorry, I didn't fully understand you here at the last line. You had said
> earlier,
> 
> >     for the future of Sugar Labs, they should be concentrating on
> >     later designs than one from 2007 that is no longer available and
> >     rapidly dying from old age.
> 
> So you mean, it would be unwise for Sugar Lab's vision/mission/strategy for the
> next 3-5 years to focus on supporting the rapidly diminishing (yet
> enthusiastic) group of XO owners, and focus on the future users who are not XO
> owners?

You might target this group of XO-1 owners and become a closed
community into which all communications are judged against suitability
for the majority (which would then be XO-1 owners).

It would feel good!  [warning, sarcasm in this paragraph]

I'm loath to battle the laws of physics, 'cause I know who wins.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.netrek.org/