Fedora, OLPC, and Sugar Labs

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 15:43:44 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:27 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 10:27 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>
>> My really big question is what can we do to get the people actually
>> using the Sugar interface?
>> And not just the target audience for olpc..but we need to get older
>> people using the interface as well, people we can get involved in the
>> development process via bug reports and patches.  I think it really
>> comes down to being able to provide an alternative Sugar desktop that
>> our Fedora users can live and work inside of.
>
> This a unique open source project in that developers are not developing
> for themselves.  Many people become involved with a project by
> scratching their own itch.  With Sugar, we are (hopefully) helping the
> next generation.


Maybe it would be a good idea to start targeting potential devs within
school environment world wides. Ie. the guys who could actually
becoming users (sort of) of Sugar.



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