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Ivan Krstic and OLPC, software bloat and python [pycon]

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posted 2007.02.23 Fri

Matt's takeaways

This was a keynote at Pycon2007. Here are my notes. I thought they are somewhat useful in the current form. Perhaps if I get some time, I'll reformat in a more readable form. He mentioned the 2 for 1 program but said that they aren't going to be looking at commercial distribution for a bit.
  • Help out with dev.laptop.org
  • Plugins help alleviate software bloat
  • Should plugin interfaces be standardized?

UPDATE

At the request of Ivan, I'm taking down my notes. He is going to be converting this into an essay in a week or two and doens't want cliff's notes floating around.

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1. a random John left...
2007.02.23 Fri 11:17 am

This is very cool. I think that today's kids are done a real disservice when Windows doesn't come with dev tools for free. 20-25 years ago all computers booted right into Basic and little nerds could get their hands dirty immediately. I wonder if the lack of such tools in the mid 90s hurt enrollment in CS programs...