<div dir="ltr">On 4 November 2013 22:53, Sean DALY <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sdaly.be@gmail.com" target="_blank">sdaly.be@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">* It's not clear to me where we are going. The OLPC/Sugar development ecosystem seems to be at a crossroads. I am encouraged by the web activity work, but don't understand the path of transposing the value proposition of Sugar (interface, Journal, collaboration, Activities) to handheld tactile devices (tablets to smartphones). PCs (of any size) with keyboards are no longer competitive with tablets for grade-school classroom use. Perhaps the XO-4 could still be in the running; there is no clear message from OLPC.
</div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'll try to express briefly my feelings about the directions the project could take. Note that I might be missing a lot of what is going on above the technical level.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">* The XO is not a viable hardware platform other than for existing deployments. OLPC is pretty clearly going in a different direction.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">* Sugar web activities on the top of a full Android loses too much of the Sugar value proposition. It's great to have it in addition to Sugar-the-OS, but it's not enough alone.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">* From the technical point of view there are several ways to get Sugar-the-OS running on tactile devices. Unfortunately it's not clear to me that any of these devices is open enough to be viable for deployments or "ordinary" users.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br>Daniel Narvaez<br>
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