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

[Edward Cherlin]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Jameson Quinn <jameson.quinn at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was just about to write a guest post for OLPCNews 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 has to move the fundraising page
> off of the OLPC wiki (for tax reasons or something).

I don't understand. SJ, can you explain? Where will the page move to?

> 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.

I was getting ready to write such an article anyway, so you're on.

> 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.

I want to invite some partners from Africa, as well.

We need more money than we are going to get from individual donations.
Does anybody have an idea for a corporate sponsor, or other funding
possibilities? Several companies put in a million dollars each to get
OLPC started. How about a few thousand here and there to speed up
actual deployments and make them more effective?

> 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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