“The seventh Linux.conf.au (LCA) continued Tuesday at the
Kensington campus of the University of New South Wales in Sydney,
Australia, with miniconferences and a keynote by Christopher
Blizzard.“Blizzard spoke about interface design for the One Laptop Per
Child (OLPC) project, and how to be relevant to users. He ventured
into slightly dangerous territory, saying that part of being
‘relevant’ means being able to ‘move the needle’–that is, increase
adoption–and asked, ‘How many years now has it been ‘the year of
the Linux desktop’…?’
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