Re:Sugar: Open-source software learning platform for children
by war1025 on Friday August 30, 2019 @07:21PM
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Is OLPC still active? I remember it being a big deal for a few years and then never really heard anything about it since.
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Re:Sugar: Open-source software learning platform for children
by shakna on Friday August 30, 2019 @09:04PM
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Yes and no, so far as I'm aware.
The project has lost a good deal of its funding, from what I've heard, and now has a lot less backing from the technical community (I think Collabora are the only backers now), placing the project's overall management mainly into the hands of educators, who don't tend to be the best at that side of things.
So you end up with things where various parts of their various websites are broken, and there isn't as much well-handled PR going out.
However, they are still somewhat active [0], but at a much smaller scale. Focusing on individual classrooms as goals, rather than the massively ambitious target of One Laptop Per Child in entire nations.
Re:Sugar: Open-source software learning platform for children
by core-questions on Friday August 30, 2019 @08:45PM
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It was a good idea, but probably too ambitious. I like better the idea of installing hardened kiosks in public areas - way easier to build and maintain with commodity parts. Portability is nice but it's honestly not critical.
Re:Sugar: Open-source software learning platform for children
by hcs on Saturday August 31, 2019 @04:12AM
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This reminds me of the "hole in the wall" kiosk, installed in a slum in New Delhi in a way that was supposed to be accessible only to children: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimally_invasive_education