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=== Sugar Digest ===

=== Sugar Digest ===

1. Bonjour: I gave the keynote at the first Netbook World Summit in Paris (See [[MarketingTeam/Presentations|Presentations]]). The opening welcome was delivered by Hervé Yahi, CEO of Mandriva, and indeed Mandriva was well represented at the congress. Yahi asked, "How big will the netbook market become?" He (and almost every subsequent speaker) broke the market down into two categories: a primary tool in the emerging market and a second device in the developed world. In my talk, I suggested that the netbook was at the forefront of the emerging cultural and technological battle between telephony and computing—i.e., the culture of service and the culture of creation. Inviting children into the community of learners and problem-solvers is ''the'' opportunity afforded by giving them access to computation and "learning as a verb".

1. Bonjour: I gave the keynote at the first Netbook World Summit in Paris (See [[Marketing Team/Presentations|Presentations]]). The opening welcome was delivered by Hervé Yahi, CEO of Mandriva, and indeed Mandriva was well represented at the congress. Yahi asked, "How big will the netbook market become?" He (and almost every subsequent speaker) broke the market down into two categories: a primary tool in the emerging market and a second device in the developed world. In my talk, I suggested that the netbook was at the forefront of the emerging cultural and technological battle between telephony and computing—i.e., the culture of service and the culture of creation. Inviting children into the community of learners and problem-solvers is ''the'' opportunity afforded by giving them access to computation and "learning as a verb".

OLPC's Bastien Guéry (of Haiti-deployment fame; soon moving to Lebanon) and Patrick Ferran, director of a educational netbook company, Gdium.com (a MIPS platform running Mandriva), held a panel discussion on education. Collaboration was the hot topic—the Sugar model is attractive even in the developed world. And, as always, how to change the culture of learning in schools remains a conundrum.

OLPC's Bastien Guéry (of Haiti-deployment fame; soon moving to Lebanon) and Patrick Ferran, director of a educational netbook company, Gdium.com (a MIPS platform running Mandriva), held a panel discussion on education. Collaboration was the hot topic—the Sugar model is attractive even in the developed world. And, as always, how to change the culture of learning in schools remains a conundrum.

* Martin Langhoff has started a thread in the laptop.org wiki regarding the school server Moodle design ([http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Moodle_design XS Moodle design]).

* Martin Langhoff has started a thread in the laptop.org wiki regarding the school server Moodle design ([http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Moodle_design XS Moodle design]).

3. Looking for a project?: Tomeu has posted notes from the Sugar Camp brainstorming session regarding collaboration features for Sugar Activities. Lots of opportunities to get your start developing in Sugar ([[MarketingTeam/Events/Sugarcamp Boston 2008/Minutes#Items_from_the_roadmap_brainstorm|Roadmap Brainstorm]]).

3. Looking for a project?: Tomeu has posted notes from the Sugar Camp brainstorming session regarding collaboration features for Sugar Activities. Lots of opportunities to get your start developing in Sugar ([[Marketing Team/Events/Sugarcamp Boston 2008/Minutes#Items_from_the_roadmap_brainstorm|Roadmap Brainstorm]]).

4. Ouch: A harsh criticism of Sugar from a blogger can be found at  

4. Ouch: A harsh criticism of Sugar from a blogger can be found at