Re: [sugar] Donations for travel to Nov 17 XOcamp, also spare bedrooms needed!

2008-10-28 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:34 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of other good projects. I'm hoping that similarly-minded people will pitch in to make the good ideas reality. [...] towards the conference, because I don't have a budget at OLPC. But I can put $1000 of my own money

Re: [sugar] Donations for travel to Nov 17 XOcamp, also spare bedrooms needed!

2008-10-27 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:01 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: meetings as possible. I'd like to consider asking for donations to cover travel costs for key developers, like the sugar team: marco, tomeu, erikos, and morgs. The cost of their travel would be about $2500. Including

Re: [sugar] Donations for travel to Nov 17 XOcamp, also spare bedrooms needed!

2008-10-27 Thread Michael Stone
I wish to add two things to what Scott wrote: First, two purposes for the conference have been recognized to date: 1) to facilitate planning relevant to 9.1 and beyond, 2) to build trust and relationships between community members. Given present realities, three options have been

Re: [sugar] Donations for travel to Nov 17 XOcamp, also spare bedrooms needed!

2008-10-27 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:01 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, folks. It seems that OLPC is having some cash flow problems. By which I mean, can't get travel funding approved. Sorry if the tone sounded alarmist. OLPC is a nonprofit, it's not some big company rolling in cash.