Thanks for answering the roll call. And now, a question.

[Jim Kronebusch]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:46:20 -0400 (EDT), Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Tom Hoffman wrote:
> 
> > I just wonder if we couldn't get Sugar onto our existing systems
> > before we try to convince our state governments to buy a million
> > laptops (and Quanta to sell us a million laptops?)?  It seems like an
> > easier bar to cross.
> >
> > --Tom
> 
> I think that Sugar has a-ways to go before it can be considered a 
> panacaea.  If you guys think it's legitimately something that educators in 
> the US will go for as a Desktop OS for the classroom, we could certainly 
> think about repackaging it for broader use.
> 
> The nice thing about the OLPC, of course, is that the hardware profile is 
> 100% known -- which allows the developers to optimize Sugar for the OLPC. 
> That said, it certainly runs on other platforms -- my laptop running FC6, 
> for instance.

I am not too sure the best platform is Sugar. I am not the most educated as to the
workings of sugar, so maybe I am talking out of my realm here.  But Sugar looked to be
prepackaged with certain apps and functionality.  I would still want to be able to
customize my application offerings for deployment instead of using a predetermined
application set and I may also want to tweak the interface to fit our users needs.  But
maybe sugar isn't as flat as it looked to me at first.

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