[Sugar-devel] Sugar talk and Hackfest at IIT-M,India

[Vamsi Krishna Davuluri]

Thanks for replying!

Might be good to organize some of the less engineering focused
> participants to form language teams. We still need more localization
> work done in the local languages.
>

I understand. But can you please elaborate on the Language teams??



> Another way of saying the same thing is: Education is part of the
> solution to every problem facing the next generation. While we cannot
> solve problems for them, we can give them tools so that they can
> become a generation of problem solvers.
>

Right, I had something like this in the back of my head.

>
> (I'd leave the open and free argument as part of your answer to the
> next question.)
>
> > "We already have desktops, how is sugar special"
> >
> > My answer: "Sugar is aimed at a very younger audience, and a very light
> > machine. And besides,
> > we are very young; soon there will be a boom"
>
> (1) Sugar is designed to meet the needs of young children learning--it
> puts an emphasis on guided discovery, collaboration, and reflection.
> It is not just a repackaging of an 1970s-inspired office desktop. (2)
> Sugar is built on free and open software because learning requires
> more than just access to knowledge--it also requires the ability to
> appropriate knowledge and put it to use. Sugar encourages and
> facilitates such appropriation through mechanisms such as "view
> source." (3) Sugar is designed to run on small, old, slow machines,
> e.g., it can breath new life into existing in hardware.
>

This is very excellent! thanks!

-Vamsi
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