Dear all, I am also sad to be leaving the project. It's been a true honor to work in such a great project and with such a great team.
For those who are leaving I reinforce the "best of luck" votes. For those who are staying I say the same and also ask that you don't be disheartened. We're all sad these days. These are hard times, but they too will pass and OLPC must endure and look into the future. Its mission is too important. The success of OLPC goes far beyond that awesome 500 thousand XOs (and counting) in the hands of kids. It is reinforcing the very idea that we should care for the education of children, that they are important and deserve the best, that is truly invaluable. We hope differently, but even if they get a commercial laptop running a proprietary operating system they will benefit and this will be, at least in part, due to the job that OLPC started and how it changed the economics in that "market" no one was paying attention to. So, please, keep up with the good work, more kids are waiting for their green little laptops! It was never an easy job, anyway. :-) I started as a volunteer, and intend to keep helping if I can, again as a volunteer. In my last days as a contractor I intend to revise the documentation in the wiki that relate to wireless (there is a lot there already, just needing some better linking). My original planning for January was to finish the tx power tests (just reported what was found in #9187) and test the scalability of the "XO as an acess point" set up. I am also coordinating tests to better understand and adapt to dense wireless scenarios like the one in classrooms, when tens of XOs are connected to access points. This is not a short term task and I intend to continue with that and with the training of students that will help run the tests and interpret the results at UFF (Brazil). But of course, this agenda may change in the face of other, more urgent needs. So, just let me know how can I help now and in the future. My best regards, Ricardo Carrano _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
