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Bernie Innocenti

not really me

e-mail: bernie AT codewiz DOT org

IRC: _bernie, hanging on #sugar on FreeNet

Jabber: bernie AT codewiz DOT org (yes, I run my own Jabber server ;-)

PGP key: 71FF4BAC

Contact info: http://codewiz.org/wiki/ContactInformation

Personal homepage: http://codewiz.org/

Resume: http://codewiz.org/wiki/AbridgedResume

LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/codewiz

Previous OLPC projects: http://codewiz.org/wiki/OneLaptopPerChild

I'm a volunteer working for the Sugar Labs foundation. Before that, I was a full-time volunteer developer at OLPC. My job was hacking on X11, the base Fedora OS, the Linux kernel, some i18n and input work. I have also worked on-site at OLPC deployments in Nepal, Paraguay, Uruguay and Mozambique.

Oversight Board Platform

The open source method is based on participation, not consumption.

To position itself as THE educational environment of the future, Sugar needs to grow a larger user and developer base. This is only possible if we keep growing as a truly community-driven project with its own independent identity.

Goals for Sugar Labs

0. Engage deployments in leading roles within Sugar Labs

1. Further enhance our public-facing web presence and development infrastructure

2. Work with multiple hardware and OS vendors to make Sugar available to the widest-possible user base

3. Foster the creation of companies and groups offering professional Sugar consulting and outsourcing

4. Continue to enroll volunteer community members in key roles of our infrastructure and public relations

5. Raise funding to sponsor developer meetings and our presence at major international events

Anti-goals for Sugar Labs

-1. Hire a large team of software developers – this would end up discouraging outside contributors

-2. Brew a custom OS platform – we work with distributors, we don't compete against them

-3. Let Sugar Labs become unfairly biased towards specific partners – that would undermine our relationships with other partners

-4. Trade project autonomy for funding or support – we're glad to offer our services, not our souls

Personal agenda

Within a few years computers will become central in primary education world-wide. This will stimulate the creation of a new industry of hardware, software, and content for schools. Sugar is currently well positioned: it has greater momentum and several competitive advantages over any proprietary platform on the horizon.

I work with deployments and commercial entities interested in Sugar development. To build local capacity, I'm coordinating small teams of Sugar hackers focused on service and support. Internet is our office. In the future, I'd like to work with hardware vendors with the goal of making Sugar available across all educational platforms.

On openness

Openness will be our greatest and most lasting strength.  If we shy away
from it now it will never return.
 -- Samuel Klein

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+= Bernie Innocenti =
 [[Image:Bernie.png|thumb|none|not really me]]
-:Personal homepage: http://www.codewiz.org/
 :e-mail: bernie AT codewiz DOT org
 :IRC: _bernie, hanging on #sugar on FreeNet
-:Old OLPC projects:  http://www.codewiz.org/wiki/OneLaptopPerChild
+:Jabber: bernie AT codewiz DOT org (yes, I run my own Jabber server ;-)
+:PGP key: [http://keys.sugarlabs.org:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x71FF4BAC 71FF4BAC]
+:Contact info: http://codewiz.org/wiki/ContactInformation
+:Personal homepage: http://codewiz.org/
+:Resume: http://codewiz.org/wiki/AbridgedResume
+:LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/codewiz
+:Previous OLPC projects: http://codewiz.org/wiki/OneLaptopPerChild
+I'm a volunteer working for the [[Sugar Labs]] foundation. Before that, I was a
+full-time volunteer developer at OLPC. My job was hacking on X11, the base Fedora OS,
+the Linux kernel, some i18n and input work. I have also worked on-site at OLPC deployments
+in Nepal, Paraguay, Uruguay and Mozambique.
+== Oversight Board Platform ==
+'''The open source method is based on participation, not consumption.'''
+To position itself as THE educational environment of the future, Sugar needs
+to grow a larger user and developer base.  This is only possible if we keep
+growing as a truly community-driven project with its own independent identity.
-I'm a volunteer working for the Sugar Labs team.
+=== Goals for Sugar Labs ===
-Until February 2008, I was a full-time volunteer developer at OLPC.  My job was hacking X, the base Fedora OS, the Linux kernel, some i18n and input work.  Later on, until April 2008, I was CTO of OLPC Europe and traveled around to present our project to government officials and dignitaries.  Curremtly, I'm a volunteer at [http://www.olenepal.org/ | OLE Nepal] in Kathmandu, Nepal.
+. Engage deployments in leading roles within Sugar Labs
+. Further enhance our public-facing web presence and development infrastructure
-== Why we should be more open ==
+. Work with multiple hardware and OS vendors to make Sugar available to
+the widest-possible user base
-(I wrote the following note in 2007, while still working at 1cc)
+. Foster the creation of companies and groups offering professional Sugar
+consulting and outsourcing
- Openness will be our greatest and most lasting strength.  If we shy away
+. Continue to enroll volunteer community members in key roles of our
- from it now it will never return.
+infrastructure and public relations
-  -- [[User:Sj|Samuel Klein]]
+. Raise funding to sponsor developer meetings and our presence at major
+international events
+=== Anti-goals for Sugar Labs ===
+-1. Hire a large team of software developers – this would end up discouraging
+outside contributors
+-2. Brew a custom OS platform – we work with distributors, we don't compete against
+them
+-3. Let Sugar Labs become unfairly biased towards specific partners –
+that would undermine our relationships with other partners
+-4. Trade project autonomy for funding or support – we're glad to offer our
+services, not our souls
+=== Personal agenda ===
-"We should be more open" may strike many as a surprising suggestion
+Within a few years computers will become central in primary education world-wide.
-for OLPC, since it's already supposed to be one of the most open
+This will stimulate the creation of a new industry of hardware, software, and
-projects out there.
+content for schools. Sugar is currently well positioned: it has greater momentum
+and several competitive advantages over any proprietary platform on the horizon.
-But opening just the source code without opening the rest of the
+I work with deployments and commercial entities interested in Sugar development.
-development process to the community is a recurring pitfall in which
+To build local capacity, I'm coordinating small teams of Sugar hackers focused on
-even large corporates such as RedHat and Sun all fell, initially.
+service and support. Internet is our office. In the future, I'd like to work
-I see us likely to fall into the same circular thinking that
+with hardware vendors with the goal of making Sugar available across all educational
-"trying to involve external contributors does not pay off
+platforms.
-because, so far, we've got so little external contributions".
-I've heard the argument that "working on our platform would
+== On openness ==
-be too hard for outside contributors".  This can't possibly be
-true: projects like OpenWRT and the Linux kernel and dozens of
-RTOS projects out there regularly attract flocks of hackers who
-are very capable of working on all kinds of fancy and undocumented
-hardware and exotic OSes, with great results.
-My access point can now play MP3s :-)
+ Openness will be our greatest and most lasting strength.  If we shy away
+ from it now it will never return.
+  -- [[User:Sj|Samuel Klein]]

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