Messy as my piece above is, hopefully there's enough there and/or it's received at a deep enough level for a sufficient number of folks that it doesn't smolder out. There's a flame here that I'd like to see kept alive and hopefully renewed, ideally at a frequency matching how often these discussions periodically reappear, or at a minimum some fraction of that—at least until we've arrived in utopia.

Right now I'm watching Walter Bender talk about "Sugar Labs: Past, present, and future", demonstrating "Music Blocks" ("Meow!").

https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/sugar-labs-pas...

At its peak, half of the contributions to the Sugar code base were from kids!

Walter's responsible for the OLPC having a dedicated "View Source" key on the keyboard.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/View_source

>The View Source button fn-space and some alternative key combinations in particular activities allow one to look behind the activity, peeling away layers of abstraction in order to reveal the underlying codebase which makes it tick. This feature will integrate cleanly with the Develop activity, encouraging children to view, modify, and redistribute variations on the activities they use. Through collaboration and sharing, a garden of home grown activities will begin to develop on the laptops, created by the children themselves.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard

>the View Source key has a gear on it, is accessed as Fn-Space, and displays activity or system source;