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<div><u>Tony</u> - <em>"Having a FOSS culture means that lots of smaller design decisions are made which empower the learner"</em></div>
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<div>I'm interested to know more about this FOSS culture. As I've understand it, Sugar (-Lab) is part of a this greater FOSS culture. </div>
<div>At the same time I find it difficult to capture the culture-essence in the context of Sugar. At Sugar Lab it is stated: </div>
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<div><em>These ideas¨[<u>freedom, sharing and open crituiqe]</u> are embodied in the culture of free software, which is a powerful </em></div>
<div><em>culture of learning. Educators are discovering the culture, technology, and values of the open source movement which engages both teachers and <u>students: empowering them with both the freedom to act and the freedom to be critical</u>."</em> (<a href="http://sugarlab.org">sugarlab.org</a>). </div>
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<div>Does it mean that anyone who uses Sugar is part of this FOSS culture, or does FOSS culture has more to it? How is it possible </div>
<div>to distinct FOSS culture from other cultures?</div>
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<div>I can illustrate this complexity with OLE Nepal. Sugar-FOSS gives Nepal as a 'particular' culture/context the 'freedom' to fit Sugar</div>
<div>into specific needs in terms of language and national curriculum i.e. <em>E-Paath. </em>Where in this proces are the students </div>
<div>(and teachers as well) empowered with the freedom to be critical about E-Paath and the national curriculum? As I see it, E-Paath</div>
<div>doesn't correlate to students beeing free to act and beeing critical... or does it? Are OLE Nepal part of the FOSS culture?</div>
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<div><u>Tim</u> -<em> Last assumption:<br> 5. Children benefits from Sugar because it’s a specific designed<br> learning environment, but children<br> (most of them) couldn’t care less about FOSS, and they are not in charge of<br>
the FOSS-environment.<br> They are in charge of the progamming and debugging Turtle not the<br> Sugar-activity itself,<br><br> "Probably not. Is that important</em></div>
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<div>As an outsider/observer, it's not an important to me. I'm only curious in what ways Sugar Lab and Sugar-people</div>
<div>find it/doesn't find it important, which is why i ask. </div>
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<div>In what ways do or don't you find FOSS important in the context of Sugar?</div></div>