Re: OLPC beat complete
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:59:26 -0400, "Pascal Calarco" <pcalarco(a)nd.edu>
said:
Hi fedora-news and fedora-olpc folk --
The OLPC beat for FWN is complete[1] for FWN 149. I struggled with how
much detail to put into this from the OLPC-Community weekly that Jim
Gettys sends out, an opted to be verbose, not really knowing where to
stop :) I'd appreciate feedback on whether I should simply reference
the OLPC-Community weekly news and pull out announcements only, or
whether it is actually useful to highlight the software work going on at
OLPC. Thanks!
This is awesome Pascal! Personally speaking I'm very ignorant about OLPC
and Sugar (played with some QEMU images ages ago just to see) and found
the beat fascinating but I wondered what were many of the OLPC-specific
technical terms. Perhaps brief footnotes explaining them or links to
their wiki entries? I know, I know I should get off my lazy a## and just
google them, but if I'm reading quickly I often don't do that.
It's really hard to know where to stop. Who's the audience? People that
just need a quick shorthand reminder of what went on the week they were
away? People with mild curiosity seeking a concise digest of the
firehose of information? Complete novices looking for something to
orient them to the culture and currents in the community? I think we're
all grappling with that and it'll be interesting to hear other opinions.
In closing I really enjoyed reading the new column and I'm deeply
grateful that you're doing this.
Best wishes,
--
Oisin Feeley
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OisinFeeley