Re: [IAEP] Membership deadline.

Hey Dan, don't worry about there are not 7 in the list. I'm postulating myself, but I had no time to write my postulation. Greetings Ignacio Rodríguez SugarLabs at Facebook 2015-11-30 16:34 GMT-03:00 Dan Tenason : >

Re: [IAEP] Membership deadline.

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:34:11PM +0300, Dan Tenason wrote: > [...] Secondly there are six candidates for seven open positions on > the oversight board. [...] I can't find good evidence of that. I perceive three candidates. Wiki page said "copied over from last year". Can also be edited by

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] [UKids] Amzn Fire Sale No More: pricing rises 86% !

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > The "special offers" appear only on the startup screen, no where else. Not > a big deal, > Yes I agree for older students who've had media training, understanding (better) who is branding/manipulating them and why.

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] [UKids] Amzn Fire Sale No More: pricing rises 86% !

Hi All, Well, in spite of the ads, I am enjoying my tablet (for which I paid $49.99). I ignore the ads. Like Sora, I felt I could put up with them for $15. I am enjoying reading a book (not quite as good as Ed's Kindle Paperwhite but still excellent). And, on flights to and from Texas I

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] [UKids] Amzn Fire Sale No More: pricing rises 86% !

The "special offers" appear only on the startup screen, no where else. Not a big deal, Caryl Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 30, 2015, at 6:32 AM, Sora Edwards-Thro wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Adam Holt wrote: >> FWIW "$64.99 Amazon Prime

[IAEP] Membership deadline.

It looks like another deadline for the the membership drive has come and gone with four new members added to the spreadsheet at  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members/List  . As a gauge of interest it would be helpful for membership committee to publish the aggregate statistics for

Re: [IAEP] Membership deadline.

*Resumen de campo para a1* *¿Desea seguir siendo un miembro activo de Sugar Labs?* *Opción**Cuenta**Porcentaje* Sí (Y) 76 82.61% No (N) 6 6.52% Sin respuesta 0 0.00% No completada o No mostrada 10 10.87% We have 76 confirmed voting members so

Re: [IAEP] Membership deadline.

Hi James, On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:17 AM, James Cameron wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:34:11PM +0300, Dan Tenason wrote: > > [...] Secondly there are six candidates for seven open positions on > > the oversight board. [...] > > I can't find good evidence of that. I

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] Amzn Fire Sale No More: pricing rises 86% !

Price has gone up to $49.99 for Prime members, as far as I can tell. That's a 43% increase over the Black Friday $34.99 deal, not 86% or double. The Black Friday sale ended, yeah. And they're

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] Amzn Fire Sale No More: pricing rises 86% !

On Nov 30, 2015 8:27 AM, "Nick Doiron" wrote: > The tablet will return to the cheap price from time to time, and get cheaper in the long run as it is mass produced. I would not make the assumption that hardware costs are retail price are so correlated. Anybody is free to

[IAEP] Amzn Fire Sale No More: pricing rises 86% !

Amazon assures us they are not in fact a casino, with oscillating prices, oscillating inventory, and oscillating policies, and 86'ing inventory from a country whose code is +86 = China ;-) Perhaps worse from microdeployments' very practical and pragmatic perspective, looking out over the high

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] Amzn Fire Sale No More: pricing rises 86% !

Percentage wise sure, but I don't think it's that much of a dollar difference when it's compared to other devices and everything else a school deployment needs. I'm reminded of a blogger's calculation a few years back, that the NY Times could just send every subscriber a free iPad and save

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] Amzn Fire Sale No More: pricing rises 86% !

On Nov 30, 2015 8:45 AM, "Sora Edwards-Thro" wrote: > > Price has gone up to $49.99 for Prime members, as far as I can tell. That's a 43% increase over the Black Friday $34.99 deal, not 86% or double. FWIW "$64.99 Amazon Prime without special offers" is Amazon's very own

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] Amzn Fire Sale No More: pricing rises 86% !

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Adam Holt wrote: > > FWIW "$64.99 Amazon Prime without special offers" is Amazon's very own > language, an 86% rise over the price-for-everyone on many recent days. > As far as I understand, that's *always *been the situation. When I bought