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The Bittersweet Facts about OLPC and Sugar

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Free Software Magazine; By Terry Hancock 		Mail this story
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Recently, I had to fact-check some older articles I wrote about One Laptop Per Child in order to bring them up to date. This meant digging through the controversy in 2008, and what I found was some pretty appalling human behavior. That’s the “bitter”. The “sweet” is that both OLPC and Sugar (now separate projects) are both doing a lot of good in the world. Sugar, in particular, is doing a better job of connecting with the community. That’s a challenge for us in the community to step up and do a much better job connecting with Sugar. We need to make it the best thing ever, and that’s going to mean more than lip service. So we all need to get it installed and start contributing. Read the full story at Freesoftware Magazine.

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Comments (6)

ColonelPanik ·
Here is a great idea, Lets give jillions of nifty little computers to poor kids all over the world and we can tie them into some educational stuff so the lack of resources in their local schools can be minimized. And everyone connected with the project can bring their own huge egos/politics/corporate bottom-line and their favorite word NO into the project and it will still work.

The Colonel wanted to use "Your Ego Sucks To! for the subject of this thread but as there are no egos here it would not be funny.

The article is a "Must Read" and it has a better ending than you might expect.
jdixon ·
> ...but as there are no egos here...

A nice compliment, but unfortunately not true in my case. :( The one thing I can say is that I have a fairly good grasp on my fallibility.
moopst ·
@JD

One of my favorite lines from the movies is Clint Eastwood's quote as Dirty Harry: "A man ought to know his limitations."
Bob_Robertson ·
"Captain, your mouthwash just ain't makin' it."

But my favorite Eastwood quote comes from that otherwise forgettable movie, "Heartbreak Ridge":

"Of course I'm scared. Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane is not a natural act."

"That doesn't mean we're going to take long showers together."
ColonelPanik ·
Everyone! Bob_R needs your help. Please send him (via PM, thanks) your list of fav movies!

In case you don't have any movies you really like, could you just send him some quotes?

OnT: Anyone here using Sugar, er, with your kids of course?
Bob_Robertson ·
> Anyone here using Sugar

As opposed to Stevia?

I think I did the test-drive of Sugar on the OLPC home page a while ago, but that was it. I could see it working for someone without strong reading skills, but otherwise seemed just a little bit too simple.

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