[jeremyflores]

I worked on the OLPC during my undergrad at MIT (worked on mesh networking their DSP engine and ported cocos2D to Sugar/PyGTK/PyCairo).

Things that impressed me: the ambitiousness of the project, the fact that they started with some definite opinions and made something that matched those opinions, the group of talented people that flocked to be part of it and the energy in the building.

Things that did NOT impress me: Negroponte's aloofness with the team, his refusal to see the corpo-political implications of the project. I've always wondered what would have happened if had been more aggressive in defending his project by generating bad press about Intel's and Microsoft's attempts to tank the project.