On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:04 PM, David Farning > <dfarn...@activitycentral.com> wrote: >> I just wanted to bump this line of questions as, it is the critical > > I don't speak on behalf of the Association, but I think your positions > are overstated. As far as I know, the Association is still pursing > sales of XO laptops and is still supporting XO laptops in the field. > Granted the pace of development is slowed and there is -- to my > knowledge -- no team in place to develop an follow up to the XO 4.0. I > don't have a clue as to what you mean by a "technical philanthropy" > but it remains a non-profit associated dedicated to enhancing learning > opportunities through one-to-one computing. The fact that the > Association has private-sector partners is nothing new. It has had > such partners since its founding in 2006.
+1 on Walter's words, David's position is overstated. OLPC has shrunk its Sugar investment, that is true. But on the other points, nothing has changed significantly, OLPC has always had to find sources of funding. >> Given financial constraints, these are reasonable shifts. That's more like it ;-) >> there are ways to establish publicly disclosed and mutually beneficial >> relationships. In the meantime we are happy to provide deployments >> support while seeding and supporting projects we feel are beneficial >> to deployments such as School Server Community Edition and Sugar on >> Ubuntu. "Seeding and supporting projects" is how it's done. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first ~ http://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Martin_Langhoff _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel