Am 17.05.2010 19:43, schrieb David Farning: > There has been discussion on development processes and a development > team lead over the past couple of days. As this discussion moves > forward, I would like the community to consider the effects of working > with commercial entity. > > Over the past couple of months I have been exploring business > opportunities to promote the adoption and development of Sugar. One > of these opportunities is a service and support business for > deployments. As such, we are building network of developers to work > on deployment specific issues. > > One consideration is that these deployment specific issues are often > boring -- stuff like bug fixes. As such we are paying the developers > the going rate rate for developers in their country or region. This > brings three advantages: > 1. The deployment issues are fixed. > 2. These fixes are pushed upstream for inclusion into Sugar. > 3. There is a growing pool of skilled developers, with knowledge of > how to work with the Sugar community, co-located with deployment
Looking back at the many discussions (both in-person and on-list) we had on this topic over the past 24 months it's probably not gonna come as a surprise that I think that this is a good step into the right direction. David, thanks for all your efforts in this area, they're much appreciated! Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
