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= Bernie Innocenti =
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[[Image:Bernie.png|thumb|none|not really me]]
 
[[Image:Bernie.png|thumb|none|not really me]]
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:Personal homepage: http://www.codewiz.org/
   
:e-mail: bernie AT codewiz DOT org
 
:e-mail: bernie AT codewiz DOT org
 
:IRC: _bernie, hanging on #sugar on FreeNet
 
:IRC: _bernie, hanging on #sugar on FreeNet
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:Old OLPC projects: http://www.codewiz.org/wiki/OneLaptopPerChild
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:Jabber: bernie AT codewiz DOT org (yes, I run my own Jabber server ;-)
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:Contact info: http://www.codewiz.org/ContactInformation
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:Personal homepage: http://www.codewiz.org/
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:Blog: http://www.codewiz.org/wiki/
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:Resume: http://www.codewiz.org/wiki/CurriculumVitae (somewhat outdated)
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:LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=5159373
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:Old OLPC projects: http://www.codewiz.org/wiki/OneLaptopPerChild
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I'm a volunteer working for the Sugar Labs team.
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I'm a volunteer working for the [[Sugar Labs]] team.
    
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.
 
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.
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== Platform ==
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To position itself as THE educational environment of the future, Sugar needs
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to grow a larger user and developer base.  This is only possible by
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transforming Sugar into a truly community-driven project with its own
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independent identity.
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=== Goals for Sugar Labs ===
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1. Enhance our public-facing web presence and development infrastructure;
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2. Attract contribution from multiple hardware and OS vendors;
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3. Foster the creation of companies and groups offering professional Sugar
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consulting and outsourcing.
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4. Raise funding to sponsor developer meetings and our presence at major
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international events
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=== Anti-goals for Sugar Labs ===
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1. Hire a large team of software developers -- This would end up discouraging
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outside contributors;
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2. Brew a custom OS platform -- We work with distributors, not compete against
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them;
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3. Let Sugar Labs become unfairly biased towards specific partners --
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that would undermine our relationships with other partners;
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== Why we should be more open ==
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4. Trade project autonomy for funding or support -- we're glad to offer our
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services, not our souls.
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(I wrote the following note in 2007, while still working at 1cc)
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Openness will be our greatest and most lasting strength.  If we shy away
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=== Personal agenda ===
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from it now it will never return.
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  -- [[User:Sj|Samuel Klein]]
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"We should be more open" may strike many as a surprising suggestion
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I'm exploring the possibility to build a small team of Sugar hackers that
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for OLPC, since it's already supposed to be one of the most open
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would offer consulting services such as porting to specific hardware
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projects out there.
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platforms or development of features.  Internet would be our office.
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But opening just the source code without opening the rest of the
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Over the next few years, computers will become central in world education.
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development process to the community is a recurring pitfall in which
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This will in turn stimulate the creation of a florid industry offering
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even large corporates such as RedHat and Sun all fell, initially.
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hardware, software and contents for the specific needs of schools.
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I see us likely to fall into the same circular thinking that
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"trying to involve external contributors does not pay off
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because, so far, we've got so little external contributions".
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I've heard the argument that "working on our platform would
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Sugar has a large competitive advantage over any other proprietary
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be too hard for outside contributors".  This can't possibly be
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offering on the horizon, and a huge momentum.  This is why I also see
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true: projects like OpenWRT and the Linux kernel and dozens of
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Sugar as a rewarding business opportunity to invest in.
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RTOS projects out there regularly attract flocks of hackers who
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are very capable of working on all kinds of fancy and undocumented
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hardware and exotic OSes, with great results.
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My access point can now play MP3s :-)
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See also [Why open]
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