Will OLPC survive 2009 ? Half of OLPC laid off, others get salary cuts. Sugar development stops at OLPC
Have you seen the blog entry http://blog.laptop.org/2009/01/07/refocusing-on-our-mission/ ? See also http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090107-olpc-downsizes-half-of-its-staff-cuts-sugar-development.html and all the other blogs (engadget, gizmodo, pc world, ...). It does not look very good. Sugar seems to be now completely left to Sugar Labs, support for the large deployments is outsourced/spun off, etc. I have no idea what this means for the ongoing work for 8.2.1 and 9.1 and how this will affect XO-camp. For everybody at OLPC affected I wish you all the best for the future and I hope the original OLPC ideas will survive in one form or an other. Ton van Overbeek ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Will OLPC survive 2009 ? Half of OLPC laid off, others get salary cuts. Sugar development stops at OLPC
Judging by my Google Alert for 'olpc', the whole thing failed in early 2008! Whoever is the OLPC Steve Jobs might could use a John Sculley. Seriously, I feel for the OLPC folks and wish them the best. This past October I had to take a demotion/pay cut at my crappy retail job or join the unemployment lines. Glad I did G1G1 in 2007, ain't no way I could afford it this time around. Ton van Overbeek wrote: Have you seen the blog entry http://blog.laptop.org/2009/01/07/refocusing-on-our-mission/ ? See also http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090107-olpc-downsizes-half-of-its-staff-cuts-sugar-development.html and all the other blogs (engadget, gizmodo, pc world, ...). It does not look very good. Sugar seems to be now completely left to Sugar Labs, support for the large deployments is outsourced/spun off, etc. I have no idea what this means for the ongoing work for 8.2.1 and 9.1 and how this will affect XO-camp. For everybody at OLPC affected I wish you all the best for the future and I hope the original OLPC ideas will survive in one form or an other. Ton van Overbeek ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Will-OLPC-survive-2009---Half-of-OLPC-laid-off%2C-others-get-salary-cuts.-Sugar-development-stops-at-OLPC-tp2126060p2126369.html Sent from the Software development mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Will OLPC survive 2009 ? Half of OLPC laid off, others get salary cuts. Sugar development stops at OLPC
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Ton van Overbeek wrote: Have you seen the blog entry http://blog.laptop.org/2009/01/07/refocusing-on-our-mission/ ? See also http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090107-olpc-downsizes-half-of-its-staff-cuts-sugar-development.html and all the other blogs (engadget, gizmodo, pc world, ...). It does not look very good. Sugar seems to be now completely left to Sugar Labs, I don't think that this is any surprise. wasn't this already in the plans? it's also nothing like what the headlines are stating (OLPC abandons Sugar) support for the large deployments is outsourced/spun off, etc. a team of people working on the specific area can be better than trying to get the attention of a team that's being pulled in many directions trying to support many deployments that being said, cutting half the people and having to cut pay for the remainder is not good but as I understand it the remaining orginization is still going to be about twice the size that OLPC was in Q2/Q3 of 2007 when the XO hit mass production I have no idea what this means for the ongoing work for 8.2.1 and 9.1 and how this will affect XO-camp. For everybody at OLPC affected I wish you all the best for the future and I hope the original OLPC ideas will survive in one form or an other. I agree with both of these points. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
