[Edu-sig] OLPC (was FYI: PataPata postmortem link)

[Arthur]

Kevin Driscoll wrote:

>Don't sweat the gatekeepers, nor their philosophical leanings.
>Deploy your skills at teaching with Python.
>
>Students who discover your code will benefit.  Teachers who discover
>your code will benefit.
>
>Kevin
>

Either its infrastructure will be designed to allow easy uninstall and 
install, so that the decisionmaking will ultimately be where it belongs 
- in Caracas or in the bush, as the case may be.

Or it will not be.

I suspect the latter, since a piece of hardware to be used as 
appropriate as decided by the people in whose hands it rests, tends not 
to have philosophical leaning.
 
But the people closest to OLPC seem to say that the OLPC does, and should.

Don't sweat OLPC, period, is where I come down..

So I think perhaps we do have a  nuanced disagreement.

Art