[IAEP] [sugar] OLPC + Sugar

[Edward Cherlin]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Ivan Krstić
<krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2008, at 2:17 AM, Michael Stone wrote:
>> OLPC remains incredibly excited by Sugar and looks forward to a long
>> and
>> productive working relationship with all the other people who share
>> this
>> excitement.
>
> Earlier this year, Nicholas informed both Walter and me that his plan
> was to terminate all OLPC involvement with Sugar within a year, and
> push off its stewardship to an organization that wouldn't be receiving
> OLPC funding.

This appears to be Sugar Labs, which is indeed receiving no funding
from OLPC, contrary to a previous express promise by NN. Or so I hear.

We have a three-legged relationhip here:

OLPC Management
OLPC Community
Sugar Labs

My experience at Sugar Camp and elsewhere leads me to the notion that
Michael is correctly describing the relationship between OLPC
Community and Sugar Labs, and that there is no correct description of
the relationship of OLPC Management to anything, including itself.

> Since, to my knowledge, other OLPC people were not
> involved in _that_ decision, it's hard to divine whether your
> statement in this matter -- or, in fact, a statement made by anyone
> but Nicholas -- carries any weight whatsoever.

On the contrary, Ivan, it is NN's statements that I give no weight to.
Michael's statements carry great weight with me, considering how
thoughtful he is about making them. Whether he is correct about
anything concerning the future requires testing as usual, but I give
him points for generally knowing what he is talking about, and talking
about what he knows.
> --
> Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | http://radian.org
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