{"id":2102,"date":"2013-09-20T08:48:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T12:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2013-09-20T08:48:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T12:48:16","slug":"irony-at-olf2013-the-olpc-and-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2102","title":{"rendered":"irony at olf2013 &#8211; the olpc and sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I played with the <a href=\"http:\/\/one.laptop.org\">OLPC<\/a> for a little bit at the <a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\">Fedora<\/a> table at <a href=\"http:\/\/ohiolinux.org\">OLF<\/a> this past <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2013\/09\/16\/olf-2013-in-the-bag\/#.Ujs4Fcaqm3I\">weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\/go\/Sugar\">Sugar<\/a> desktop environment works on the metaphor of circles. It took me a few minutes to figure them out, but as soon as I was pointed at the right button (a dot, of all things), I was off and running.<\/p>\n<p>The irony? Several years ago I had a paper published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/acm.org\">ACM<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ubiquity.acm.org\">Ubiquity<\/a> entitled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ubiquity.acm.org\/article.cfm?id=1086454\">Why Do Current Graphical User Interfaces Not Work Naturally &amp; How They Can Be Fixed?<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to see some thoughts I once had published on ergonomics turn out to be practical in the Real World\u2122 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I played with the OLPC for a little bit at the Fedora table at OLF this past weekend. The Sugar desktop environment works on the metaphor of circles. It took me a few minutes to figure them out, but as soon as I was pointed at the right button (a dot, of all things), I &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2102\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">irony at olf2013 &#8211; the olpc and sugar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,41],"tags":[315,366,526,527,733,798,808],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-technical","tag-fedora","tag-gui","tag-olf2013","tag-olpc","tag-sugar","tag-ui","tag-ux"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}