[IAEP] Funding - and governance

[Wade Brainerd]

On May 28, 2008, at 4:37 AM, "Seth Woodworth" <seth at isforinsects.com>  
wrote:

>
> <snip>
>  Basically, develop and
> release Sugar in partnership with the community, and sell deployment
> and customization services to pay for the core developers.  The core
> developers do deployment work regularly, meaning they have direct
> contact with clients (i.e. real educators), and the project can afford
> to stay independent of outside interests.  The community has to trust
> the core team's vision, but now that Sugar Labs is independent of OLPC
> and Walter is in charge (right?) I doubt that will be an issue.
>
> Best,
> Wade
>
>
> OLPC would be the go-to candidate to hire services from Sugarlabs.

For Sugar on the XO, sure.

But what about the rest of the potental Sugar clients?  The whole idea  
was to separate Sugar from OLPC, and to make deals with other laptop  
manufacturers.

Wade
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