<div class="h5"><br>Thanks for replying!<br><br> </div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Might be good to organize some of the less engineering focused<br> participants to form language teams. We still need more localization<br> work done in the local languages.<br> <div class="im"></div></blockquote><div><br>I understand. But can you please elaborate on the Language teams?? <br> <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im"> <br> </div>Another way of saying the same thing is: Education is part of the<br> solution to every problem facing the next generation. While we cannot<br> solve problems for them, we can give them tools so that they can<br> become a generation of problem solvers.<br> </blockquote><div><br>Right, I had something like this in the back of my head.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> (I'd leave the open and free argument as part of your answer to the<br> next question.)<br> <div class="im"><br> > "We already have desktops, how is sugar special"<br> ><br> > My answer: "Sugar is aimed at a very younger audience, and a very light<br> > machine. And besides,<br> > we are very young; soon there will be a boom"<br> <br> </div>(1) Sugar is designed to meet the needs of young children learning--it<br> puts an emphasis on guided discovery, collaboration, and reflection.<br> It is not just a repackaging of an 1970s-inspired office desktop. (2)<br> Sugar is built on free and open software because learning requires<br> more than just access to knowledge--it also requires the ability to<br> appropriate knowledge and put it to use. Sugar encourages and<br> facilitates such appropriation through mechanisms such as "view<br> source." (3) Sugar is designed to run on small, old, slow machines,<br> e.g., it can breath new life into existing in hardware.<br> <div class="im"></div></blockquote><br></div>This is very excellent! thanks!<br><br>-Vamsi<br>