[IAEP] sustaining development

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

Hi Tomeu.

My thoughts on this are that institutions (both private and public)
that are running big deployments, should support the core devs.

As concerns rise to improve quality over quantity of machines
deployed, this process of founding core dev should come natural as it
was natural now with the development of new features.

Although, the exact way that this could happen is not clear to me yet.



Rafael Ortiz



On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> as you may know (specially if you have read my last blog posts) these
> days I'm quite happy at how big users of Sugar such as OLPC
> deployments and also OLPC itself are starting to do their Sugar work
> inside the Sugar Labs community, instead of doing it on their own and
> keeping the results for themselves.
>
> While I think this is a big step forward towards sustainability of
> Sugar development, I'm still concerned about the not-so-long-term
> future because there's a good amount of work that needs to be done so
> that new Sugar releases are made with consistent quality and that work
> is being done by volunteers, funding it with their savings. When those
> savings end, there will be no place where deployers and volunteers
> could share their work.
>
> We could put it as if we had covered the need of funding new features,
> but we still are depending precariously on the good will of a few in
> order to sustain the process through which new features reach
> children. My questions is, how can we reach sustainability on the rest
> of the process?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tomeu
>
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