[IAEP] sustaining development

[Aleksey Lim]

Hi all,

I'm totally n00b in such field and sorry if I'm talking about obvious
things but what I have in my mind is organizing sufficient
infrastructure/place/rules/schedules to let various developers meet
various deployments needs.

It could be like a bank of deployment needs, some needs could be payed
some not, some came from individuals(who is going to pay or not) some
from small/large deployments, from non-profit and for-profit
organizations etc. It's not only about founding developers(via payed
needs) but it has such benefit.


On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 05:26:49PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso 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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> What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David
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Aleksey