Why not Xfce? (was: Re: The XO-1.5 software plan.)

[Walter Bender]

I'll ask Adam, the OLPC employee who is at the meeting. He may know.

-walter

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Christoph Wickert
<christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 16.05.2009, 08:48 -0400 schrieb Walter Bender:
>> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Christoph Wickert
>> <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > Am Samstag, den 16.05.2009, 12:58 +0100 schrieb Peter Robinson:
>> >> >> >> We have some good news:  OLPC has decided to base its software release
>> >> >> >> for the new XO-1.5 laptop on Fedora 11.  Unlike previous releases, we
>> >> >> >> plan to use a full Fedora desktop build, booting into Sugar but giving
>> >> >> >> users the option to switch into a standard GNOME install instead.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > If you say "OLPC has decided" I wonder who exactly made this decision
>> >> >> > and when/if it was discussed in public. Can you please point us to the
>> >> >> > relevant mails, meeting minutes, irc logs or whatever?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I suspect (and the same goes for the post about KDE) that it was/is
>> >> >> being discussed at the SugarCamp currently taking place in France.
>>
>> FWIW, this decision was made through an OLPC-driven process. Those of
>> us attending Sugar Camp read about it and while some of us have
>> participated in discussions on IRC and mailing lists, it is not being
>> discussed/decided here.
>
> So where then? What mailing lists? What OLPC-driven process? This all
> sounds mysterious to me.
>
>> BTW, it is great to have occasional face-to-face meetings. It is a
>> high-bandwidth medium of exchange. But our decisions are made in
>> public forums.
>
> Great, but I still don't know where these forums are and how I can
> follow the process of decision-making.
>
>> -walter
>
> Regards,
> Christoph
>
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