Sugar was a waste of time and resources for OLPC. If you really want to prepare children for the modern world, you need to give them modern tools. Sugar was not.
Of course, if you want to help children that have no food / electrcity / or clean water, that's a better start then giving them a computer.
Sugar is far more then some pretty interface thrown ontop of the fedora core. It includes native collaborative features and comes bundled with a powerful set of educational tools. Students need to learn. Sugar in its BETA stages is already far better prepared to give students real LEARNING tools then any small windows variant will be.
We're not trying to help kids in Mongolia read Digg.com or watch Youtube videos (even though they are able to with the XO), we're trying to get them to think critically, really approach math and reading, and become producers of real change in their communities. You know, the important stuff we all take for granted as we load up our forums and image boards.
This isn't some fucking laptop program, its a project that aims to change 3rd world EDUCATION. Its not just a "here have this computer" sorta deal. It's ambitious, fraught with peril, and probably will see more problems then even this one.
Oh and your final comment is great. Just keep repeating that second hand sound-byte. Most of the people with a clue realize that all the current deployments are in areas where the kids have good access to food and water, but no real means of QUALITY EDUCATION. Which -again- is the whole fucking point.
I understand if you are not interested in the program, but at least take a little time to learn about it before spouting off, for fucks sakes.
And I'm sure that the built in applications to Sugar could not have been duplicated without starting from the OS up? Right?
Face it, OLPC was nothing but a way for NickNeg to get his name in the history books. It was a legacy for him. All you need to do is listen to some interviews of him regarding the OLPC, and it becomes clear as day.
OLPC is a square peg that is trying to be forced into a round hole.
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Rocketboy @ Apr 25th 2008 11:13AM
Sugar was a waste of time and resources for OLPC. If you really want to prepare children for the modern world, you need to give them modern tools. Sugar was not.
Of course, if you want to help children that have no food / electrcity / or clean water, that's a better start then giving them a computer.
directive0 @ Apr 25th 2008 2:17PM
^Doesn't get it _at all_.
Sugar is far more then some pretty interface thrown ontop of the fedora core. It includes native collaborative features and comes bundled with a powerful set of educational tools. Students need to learn. Sugar in its BETA stages is already far better prepared to give students real LEARNING tools then any small windows variant will be.
We're not trying to help kids in Mongolia read Digg.com or watch Youtube videos (even though they are able to with the XO), we're trying to get them to think critically, really approach math and reading, and become producers of real change in their communities. You know, the important stuff we all take for granted as we load up our forums and image boards.
This isn't some fucking laptop program, its a project that aims to change 3rd world EDUCATION. Its not just a "here have this computer" sorta deal. It's ambitious, fraught with peril, and probably will see more problems then even this one.
Oh and your final comment is great. Just keep repeating that second hand sound-byte. Most of the people with a clue realize that all the current deployments are in areas where the kids have good access to food and water, but no real means of QUALITY EDUCATION. Which -again- is the whole fucking point.
I understand if you are not interested in the program, but at least take a little time to learn about it before spouting off, for fucks sakes.
Rocketboy @ Apr 28th 2008 3:05PM
And I'm sure that the built in applications to Sugar could not have been duplicated without starting from the OS up? Right?
Face it, OLPC was nothing but a way for NickNeg to get his name in the history books. It was a legacy for him. All you need to do is listen to some interviews of him regarding the OLPC, and it becomes clear as day.
OLPC is a square peg that is trying to be forced into a round hole.