OLPC growing pains: Difference between revisions
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The entire OLPC team is |
The entire OLPC team is interested in supporting outside developers. |
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There's no question about it, and there never was. |
There's no question about it, and there never was. |
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What's also true is that -- so far -- we've been |
What's also true is that -- so far -- we've been building a platform (both Sugar and the distro) |
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with heavy low-level development taking place in parallel with high- |
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position of having to grow a platform (both Sugar and the distro) |
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level activity development. This is tricky, with the usual resource constraints and |
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level activity development. This is extremely difficult to do in any |
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set of circumstances, and doubly so with our resource constraints and |
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timelines. As a result, we haven't been as good as we could be about |
timelines. As a result, we haven't been as good as we could be about |
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leveraging the community and outside developers. |
leveraging the community and outside developers. This should improve as underlying |
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this, we know it can be really frustrating for contributors, and |
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we're determined to get better. I expect things will improve |
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significantly in this domain in a couple of months as underlying |
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platform development begins to stabilize and our focus turns |
platform development begins to stabilize and our focus turns |
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increasingly towards activities and other consumers of our platform |
increasingly towards activities and other consumers of our platform and APIs. |
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and APIs. |
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[[Communities]] are springing up in many languages and places; feel free to join one and get involved where you see fit; or |
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Until then, I can only thank everyone who's been bearing with us even |
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to list your own groups there. |
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if it feels like there's a line in the sand between 1CC and |
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"outsiders" at times. Communities are hard work, and we're entirely |
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committed to growing a great one around OLPC. Really. Please be |
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patient with us a little longer, and as Wikipedians like to say, |
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assume good faith. |
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Latest revision as of 17:53, 6 January 2008
The entire OLPC team is interested in supporting outside developers. There's no question about it, and there never was.
What's also true is that -- so far -- we've been building a platform (both Sugar and the distro) with heavy low-level development taking place in parallel with high- level activity development. This is tricky, with the usual resource constraints and timelines. As a result, we haven't been as good as we could be about leveraging the community and outside developers. This should improve as underlying platform development begins to stabilize and our focus turns increasingly towards activities and other consumers of our platform and APIs.
Communities are springing up in many languages and places; feel free to join one and get involved where you see fit; or to list your own groups there.