On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Jameson Quinn <[email protected]> wrote: > I was just about to write a guest post for OLPCNews asking for (tax > deductible) contributions towards the travel scholarship fund for XOCamp. > But when I asked on IRC if anybody had any good photos of Sugarcamp to > include, they told me to wait, because SJ has to move the fundraising page > off of the OLPC wiki (for tax reasons or something).
I don't understand. SJ, can you explain? Where will the page move to? > I wanted to get this > done ASAP because time is growing short, but I'm going to the country > (offline) until Monday or Tuesday. > > So: if anybody can take on the task of waiting until the page is moved, then > writing a fundraising post to OLPCNews, I'd really appreciate it, and so > would the rest of the people who are looking for partial travel > scholarships. I was getting ready to write such an article anyway, so you're on. > There's applications from Guatemala, where exciting things are > happening and 3000 XOs will be arriving next year; from Uruguay, where > Proyecto Ceibal is now the organization with more experience in XO > deployment than anyone else; and from Denmark, to help with packaging > issues; and more applications are expected. All donations are tax > deductible, going through sugarlabs. I want to invite some partners from Africa, as well. We need more money than we are going to get from individual donations. Does anybody have an idea for a corporate sponsor, or other funding possibilities? Several companies put in a million dollars each to get OLPC started. How about a few thousand here and there to speed up actual deployments and make them more effective? > Thanks, > Jameson > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote: >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> > >> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:19:54PM -0600, Jameson Quinn wrote: >> >>It's getting to be time to buy tickets for XOCamp 2, which is in under >> >>a month now. Those of us who'd like to come from far away would love to >> >>know whether we can get some financial support for our journey. >> > >> > I am wondering: Do you guys think it would be relevant for me to >> > participate in this? >> > >> > I mean, I don't develop activities themselves and am not a >> > construcionism theorist. I "just" do packaging for Debian an Debian-edu, >> > and do what I can to unite the Sugar packaging efforts of .deb based >> > distros. >> > >> > I do not foubt that I am welcome. Question is more if you imagine that >> > it would be beneficial for the project - also as I would like to request >> > financial support for my travel costs (I live in Denmark). >> >> Your presence would be highly beneficial. We have been having serious >> packaging problems. I don't know how they differ between distros, but >> I feel the lack every day on Ubuntu. >> >> > I can offer to stay longer in the area, before and/or after the event, >> > if anyone would find that beneficial. >> > >> > >> > - Jonas >> > >> > - -- >> > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt >> > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ >> > >> > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) >> > >> > iEYEARECAAYFAklHJdsACgkQn7DbMsAkQLiezQCgkQr3++cqyhjQ4q0ZcBoSMMn2 >> > GNIAnjjUtxooWDXNKmVVEHmS6kt+e6+q >> > =eqs/ >> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > _______________________________________________ >> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name >> And Children are my nation. >> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
