On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22.04.2008 02:13, Michael Stone wrote: > > What in this description of events leads you to the conclusion that OLPC > > is "shriveling up and dying"?
> Perhaps not shriveling up, but quite a few contributors/participants > from the early days (pre-A-Test till B2-Test) have left and the > perceived goals and principles of the project have changed considerably > as well. One major thing is changing right now -- and *is* changing the organisation deeply. Initially, it was all R&D, you could change (or plan to change) anything in the system. Now, very quickly hundreds of thousands of laptops are being deployed. It is a completely different world, and different way of working. Things have changed a bit, and I expect them to change some more, based on my experience with other projects that have gone through similar (but slower) phase-changes. (In the case of OLPC, I missed all the fun R&D days, but that is ok with me, I can handle the "maintenance and organic evolution" phase just fine. Others find the constraints of having a large installed base crippling, I find them stimulating: my changes will be in the hands of real users. Not maybe, not in a projection, but in very real life. Scary, and thrilling!) > But I see a chance to bring that culture back once the immense pressure > on the "core team" (for lack of a better name) diminishes and update.2 > is released. Let's hope for the best. We are under a lot of stress with the changing times. That's spot on :-) -- but I think it's worth it. cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
