Hi Zico, thanks for sharing this info with us. Imtiaz On 7/11/08, Zico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:21 PM > Subject: [Fwd: Fedora, meet OLPC. OLPC, meet Fedora.] > To: The Fedora Project Community in India <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Hi, > > For your consideration > > > Did you know that the OLPC project is the largest single "customer" of > Fedora in the entire world? > > The rumours of OLPC's death have been greatly exaggerated. Despite some > unfortunate statements by the project's erstwhile CEO, the OLPC project is > still *extremely* focused on succeeding in its noble goal -- the education > of the world's children -- with the use of free software as the central > component of their software strategy. And they are, in fact, succeeding, > even though the open source community has largely turned its collective back > on that success. Which is, I think, a shame. > > Let me share some numbers with you. They might surprise you. I know they > surprised me when I heard them a few weeks ago at FUDCon. > > OLPC has shipped over 300,000 units to kids around the world. They plan to > ship at least another 50,000 more each month, and very likely more than > that. It's entirely possible that by the end of 2008, there will be a > million OLPC systems deployed worldwide. > > Of those systems, 100% of them currently run Fedora, and 0% of them > currently run Windows -- despite the press clippings you may have read. > > The OLPC project is based on Fedora. The engineers at OLPC have invested > thousands of person-hours in making Fedora a successful base for OLPC > deployments. Fedora is now, and will continue to be, the base operating > system for the OLPC project. Period. > > It's time for the Fedora community to step up and represent. > > * * * > > There will be many opportunities for members of the Fedora community and the > OLPC communities to help one another in the coming months. I intend to spend > most of my time identifying those opportunities and helping to making them > happen. > > The first opportunities are for the Fedora packagers. This work can be done > right now, today. > > Understandably, the OLPC folks want to focus their efforts on the challenges > that are unique to the OLPC project. Which means that they should be > shedding all work that can more easily be handled by others. Package > maintenance is a perfect example of this kind of work. > > Here is a list of packages that are either badly needed by OLPC: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList#OLPC_Wishlist > > These packages are either unavailable in Fedora, or are currently being > maintained, poorly, by overworked OLPC engineers who can't invest enough > time to do them justice. There are lots of simple issues that even novice > packagers could handle. Missing or broken dependencies. Creation of > dead-simple activity packages. And so on. > > If there's one thing that Fedora community engineers do exceptionally well, > it's package maintenance. If every current Fedora packager volunteered to > own *one single package* that is crucial to OLPC, we would immediately free > the core OLPC team for much more strategic work. It's a big, immediate win, > and the entire OLPC team will be delighted to receive your help. > > Fedora packagers: please consider adopting one of these packages and giving > it a loving home. I will keep asking. :) > > --g > > -- > Best, > Z > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ------------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe send a blank mail to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Groups Links > > > >
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