On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:01 PM, David Farning <dfarn...@activitycentral.com> wrote: > 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.
You also stated: > The degree of openness and transparency is our fundamental > disagreement. Best case is that the status quo works, Sugar Labs > thrives, and I am proven wrong. Worst case is that Sugar adopts to the > changing environment. Several of us have asked for an explanation. regards. -walter > >>>> 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 -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel