On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:43 AM, David Farning <dfarn...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > david > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
David, Support and Service structure will be immensely useful. In my talks with schools around here and agencies interested in early childhood education, the no 1 issue that comes up is "Who will support this deployment?" I am talking in context of both (XO + Sugar) and (<some computer> + Sugar) in schools around here. If someone does decide to set up a for-profit or not-for-profit entity for a deployment, what will the rules of engagement be with SL? I'd be happy to put on my B-school hat and help out with the process, if necessary. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
