On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 22:06, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> wrote: > [cc += i...@] > > Here's a revised version integrating some feedback from marketing@: > > -----8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----- > > Does the world know that Sugar Labs is still 100% committed to support > Sugar? > > We got nearly zero press coverage lately, and the only message that > everybody got is that OLPC ditched the development of Sugar, and the > general mood is pretty negative. > > Perhaps we should be much louder in telling people about a few facts > that would sound surprising outside our small circle and even within it: > > - Sugar's development infrastructure is now mostly independent of > OLPC, thanks to many generous partners (Ivan, OSL, Free Software > Foundation, prgmr.com, MIT Media Lab, Solution Groove, Collabora > and Develer);
Solution Grove, not Solution Groove. > - For about 3 months now, Sugar Labs has already been taking > care of Sugar development with almost no support from OLPC; (except for contracting developers until recently.) > - Sugar has not lost any of its full-time core developers as a > consequence of OLPC's layoffs. > > - All of the core team will stay around as unpaid volunteers > while we're looking for new ways to finance their full-time > contribution; > > - Today, development of Sugar and activities relies upon 20 active > contributors (we actually have 30 user accounts on sunjammer, > but some of them don't count as contributors of any kind); Perhaps a note about there being many Sugar activities originally developed for the XO - which, while not actively maintained, are a good starting point for further activity development. > - Over the past few months, we have grown our community with new > contributors, new partners and new distributors; > > - The rate of development seems to be increasing steadily as we > consolidate our new community driven development model > (we can obtain some support evidence from git); > > - Through the SFC, Sugar Labs is receiving some very generous > support (although we're not yet able to credit individual > donors); > > - While we do not plan to hire a development team within Sugar Labs, > we're working to get some of our full-time volunteer contributors > sponsored by external organizations; > > - Red Hat and Solutions Groove are contributing with engineering > resources and covering traveling expenses for some of our members; Solution Grove, not Solutions Groove. > - The development cycle is proceeding steadily and 0.84 will be > released as planned in March; > > - We've been working to establish Local Labs, grassroots > organizations which, in our mind, will fill up the gap left by > OLPC in deployments; > > It's starting to become clear that 0.84 is where we'll prove our > credibility as a self-sufficient, community-driven project. > > -----8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----- > > To the best of my knowledge, all the above corresponds to reality. > > Can anyone spot any factual mistake I should correct, or things > we'd better avoid saying? Am I being exaggeratedly positive > anywhere? > > Anyone who has contacts with local or international press agencies is > invited to help us deliver this message effectively. http://morgancollett.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/the-status-of-sugar-post-olpc/ should hit Planet Ubuntu shortly. Regards Morgan _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
