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I asked Katrin Verclas, a founder of MobileActive, for the evidence that OLPC was a failure and she said "OLPC was not discussed or presented at the FailFaire." It seems she has no evidence and yet she is sufficiently tone-deaf to be unconcerned that her using the XO as an emblem of failure might be damaging to the effots of the thousands of people trying to help the millions of children who are using the XO and Sugar. I would expect better from the ''New York Times'', the ''Chronicle of Philanthropy'', and from an organization that purports to shed some light on what works/doesn't work in development. I recommended that Verclas read ''Aristotle and and Aardvark go to Washington'' as she might learn a few more techniques for character assassination from Cathcart and Klein.
 
I asked Katrin Verclas, a founder of MobileActive, for the evidence that OLPC was a failure and she said "OLPC was not discussed or presented at the FailFaire." It seems she has no evidence and yet she is sufficiently tone-deaf to be unconcerned that her using the XO as an emblem of failure might be damaging to the effots of the thousands of people trying to help the millions of children who are using the XO and Sugar. I would expect better from the ''New York Times'', the ''Chronicle of Philanthropy'', and from an organization that purports to shed some light on what works/doesn't work in development. I recommended that Verclas read ''Aristotle and and Aardvark go to Washington'' as she might learn a few more techniques for character assassination from Cathcart and Klein.
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2. On a positive note, I've archived a short exchange on the #suagr channel on irc.freenode.net.
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2. On a positive note, I've archived a short exchange on the #sugar channel on irc.freenode.net.
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  <marcopg>\terikos: approve my trivial patch! :) I want to push again to sugar after so long :)
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  <marcopg> erikos: approve my trivial patch! :) I want to push again to sugar after so long :)
  <erikos>\tmarcopg: just because you have just one module does not mean to not need to specify the module anymore!
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  <erikos> marcopg: just because you have just one module does not mean to not need to specify the module anymore!
  <erikos>\tmarcopg: r!
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  <erikos> marcopg: r!
  <erikos>\tmarcopg: welcome back! :)
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  <erikos> marcopg: welcome back! :)
  <marcopg>\terikos haha
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  <marcopg> erikos haha
  <marcopg>\tthanks :)
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  <marcopg> thanks :)
    
For those of you who a relatively new to Sugar, Marco was a lead developer on the Red Hat team that worked with OLPC and Pentagram to develop Sugar. He helped found Sugar Labs but has been missing from our ranks over the past 12 months due to other obligations. It is great to have Marco contributing again.
 
For those of you who a relatively new to Sugar, Marco was a lead developer on the Red Hat team that worked with OLPC and Pentagram to develop Sugar. He helped found Sugar Labs but has been missing from our ranks over the past 12 months due to other obligations. It is great to have Marco contributing again.

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