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Line 1: + + − :Personal homepage: http://www.codewiz.org/ − + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − 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.+ + − == Why we should be more open ==+ + − (I wrote the following note in 2007 while still working at 1cc)+ + − Openness will be our greatest and most lasting strength. If we shy away+ − from it now it will never return.+ − -- [[User:Sj|Samuel Klein]]+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − "We should be more open" may strike many as a surprising suggestion+ − + − projects out there.+ + − But opening just the source without opening the rest of the+ − development process is a recurring pitfall in which even+ − large corporates such as RedHat and Sun all fell, initially.+ − + − "trying to involve external contributors does not pay off+ − because so far we've got so little external contributions". − And I've heard the argument that "working on our platform would+ − 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 :-)+ + +
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= Bernie Innocenti =
[[Image:Bernie.png|thumb|none|not really me]]
[[Image:Bernie.png|thumb|none|not really me]]
: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
: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.
=== 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.
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
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
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
platforms.
== On openness ==
Openness will be our greatest and most lasting strength. If we shy away
from it now it will never return.
-- [[User:Sj|Samuel Klein]]