[IAEP] XOCamp fundraising (and, please sign up to donate)

[Jameson Quinn]

I was just about to write a guest post <editors at olpcnews.com> for
OLPCNews<http://www.olpcnews.com/contribute.html>asking for (tax
deductible) contributions towards the travel scholarship
fund for XOCamp. But when I asked on IRC if anybody had any good photos of
Sugarcamp to include, they told me to wait, because SJ <sj at laptop.org> has
to move the fundraising
page<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2/Fundraising#Donations>off of
the OLPC wiki (for tax reasons or something). I wanted to get this
done ASAP because time is growing short, but I'm going to the country
(offline) until Monday or Tuesday.

So: if anybody can take on the task of waiting until the page is moved, then
*writing a fundraising post to OLPCNews*, I'd really appreciate it, and so
would the rest of the people who are looking for partial travel
scholarships. There's applications from Guatemala, where exciting things are
happening and 3000 XOs will be arriving next year; from Uruguay, where
Proyecto Ceibal is now the organization with more experience in XO
deployment than anyone else; and from Denmark, to help with packaging
issues; and more applications are expected. All donations are tax
deductible, going through sugarlabs.

Thanks,
Jameson

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:19:54PM -0600, Jameson Quinn wrote:
> >>It's getting to be time to buy tickets for XOCamp 2, which is in under
> >>a month now. Those of us who'd like to come from far away would love to
> >>know whether we can get some financial support for our journey.
> >
> > I am wondering: Do you guys think it would be relevant for me to
> > participate in this?
> >
> > I mean, I don't develop activities themselves and am not a
> > construcionism theorist. I "just" do packaging for Debian an Debian-edu,
> > and do what I can to unite the Sugar packaging efforts of .deb based
> > distros.
> >
> > I do not foubt that I am welcome. Question is more if you imagine that
> > it would be beneficial for the project - also as I would like to request
> > financial support for my travel costs (I live in Denmark).
>
> Your presence would be highly beneficial. We have been having serious
> packaging problems. I don't know how they differ between distros, but
> I feel the lack every day on Ubuntu.
>
> > I can offer to stay longer in the area, before and/or after the event,
> > if anyone would find that beneficial.
> >
> >
> >    - Jonas
> >
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