On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:04 PM, David Farning >> <dfarn...@activitycentral.com> wrote: >>> I just wanted to bump this line of questions as, it is the critical >> >> I don't speak on behalf of the Association, but I think your positions >> are overstated. As far as I know, the Association is still pursing >> sales of XO laptops and is still supporting XO laptops in the field. >> Granted the pace of development is slowed and there is -- to my >> knowledge -- no team in place to develop an follow up to the XO 4.0. I >> don't have a clue as to what you mean by a "technical philanthropy" >> but it remains a non-profit associated dedicated to enhancing learning >> opportunities through one-to-one computing. The fact that the >> Association has private-sector partners is nothing new. It has had >> such partners since its founding in 2006. > > +1 on Walter's words, David's position is overstated. OLPC has shrunk > its Sugar investment, that is true. But on the other points, nothing > has changed significantly, OLPC has always had to find sources of > funding.
As I stated, I hope to be proven wrong. >>> Given financial constraints, these are reasonable shifts. > > That's more like it ;-) > >>> there are ways to establish publicly disclosed and mutually beneficial >>> relationships. In the meantime we are happy to provide deployments >>> support while seeding and supporting projects we feel are beneficial >>> to deployments such as School Server Community Edition and Sugar on >>> Ubuntu. > > "Seeding and supporting projects" is how it's done. > > cheers, > > > > m > -- > martin.langh...@gmail.com > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > ~ http://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Martin_Langhoff -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
