[Its.an.education.project] Ivan's latest blog entry on OLPC

[Edward Cherlin]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:05 AM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at cscott.net> wrote:
> As an OLPC employee and Sugar/Linux developer, what continually
> impresses *me* is the dedication shown to OLPC's educational mission
> by all those who took the hard road and chose to stay with the
> company.  Not to say there haven't been good reasons for people to
> leave, but there are a large number of employees who've kept their
> heads down and kept working on what's best for the kids, despite all
> the turmoil and hubbub.  You don't hear much from them because they've
> been working internally to shift OLPC's course, and it's easy to
> discredit one's voice by venting in public.
>
> As for me, when I can more effectively help OLPC's mission elsewhere,
> I'll leave -- but not before.
>  --scott

Very good. Thanks, Scott, for all your contributions. Particularly
your analysis of why Sugar won't port well to Windows.

I am a lowly volunteer, but I have discovered something that I am
going to call Open Source Management. I am simply stepping up to take
on the management functions that Nicholas and the others have let
drop. Not all, of course. I don't know the secrets, and I don't have
funding. Yet. But I can call on people to volunteer with the best of
them. And I can call out the failings of the bosses, because they
can't fire me.

So I am taking on the question of electricity in villages, access to
the Internet, the greatly neglected localization of Sugar, and
whatever else is needed.

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