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

[Dave Crossland]

Hi

On 7 April 2016 at 22:04, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> A layer of Scotch tape remedies the trackpad problem in many cases.
>
...
>
The keyboard is more robust than most think. In PY and NE kids repair them
> by putting paper over the buttons under the rubber membrane.
>

Where are such hacks documented? :)


> A lot of the people in the global south are going to get access to cheap
>> solar electricity, cheap Android computing devices, and some degree of
>> cheap network connectivity.
>>
>
> Not until the XO-4 is the power footprint really that we were initially
> targeting.
>

> ...
>>
>
>> So, another prediction from me that is probably wrong: OLPC will not
>> produce another hardware design.
>>
>
> There were rumors circulating, but I have no knowledge one way or another.
>

I can't parse the first line :)

If the XO-4 is not already the power footprint that OLPC was targeting in
2006-ish, and already exists, then how can you say "until the XO-4..."? Do
you mean "until an XO-N"?

Well, in any case, if the power footprint of $50 Android devices stays the
same, and outernet is already providing cheap network connectivity to every
city, then the limiting factor is the falling rate of pv.

And that has been falling exponentially for a while, and seems set to do
so, eg
http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2015/04/solar-price-installation-chart.jpg.662x0_q70_crop-scale.jpg
picked off the top of
https://www.google.com/search?q=pv+price+exponential&tbm=isch  :)



> Does anyone know why the "XO Infinity" became the "Infinity"?
>>
>
> Marketing.
>
> The "Inifnity" machine is being developed by OLPC AU, not OLPC
> Association. No continuity between designs or design teams, so it is a
> complete unknown. Its "modular" design makes me suspicious since modular
> generally means more connectors, which are points of failure. But there are
> no data.
>

Cool


>
>> As usual the real challenges are far more social than technical:
>>> deliberate right-sizing of content/activity planning for the community in
>>> question (we are building a more content-rich version of HaitiOS from Sugar
>>> 0.108 and OLPC OS 13.2.7) while aligning peer-mentoring with
>>> adult-mentoring, and of course pressure from national testing around Grade
>>> 6-or-so in almost every country.  These mammoths-in-the-room epic
>>> challenges keep eternally popping up for a reason (and sometimes even
>>> getting answered!!) Human Patterns across most all developing world
>>> communities, on all continents.
>>>
>>
>> I see no problem with national testing. If kids are well educated, they
>> can pass such tests without much preparation :)
>>
>
> If only it were that simple.
>

;)
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