[IAEP] Sugar Labs Vision Discussion in 6 hours

[Laura Vargas]

2016-06-17 12:07 GMT+08:00 Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com>:

>
> On 16 June 2016 at 13:49, Laura Vargas <laura at somosazucar.org> wrote:
>
>> Great news Dave! hopefully more and more OLPC members will join the
>> conversation on the IEP list.
>>
>
> Sadly, I must admit that I do not expect anyone at OLPC to join this list.
>

Could you please explain why?

>
>
>> - OLPC offered XO-1.75 and XO-4 upgrade kits in the past, to upgrade
>>> XO-1s, but they didn't sell that well; she agreed with Tony's assessment
>>> that users will run the XO-1 until it fails, and OLPC has no EOL date in
>>> mind
>>>
>>> - OLPC is still offering XO-4s (touch and non-touch) with a minimum
>>> order of 100 units through the end of this year for sure, and has a few
>>> units in stock in Miami if anyone wants to buy just one or two; and Leah
>>> said they could look into updating the laptop.org website to make the
>>> offer public
>>>
>> I belive SL business is the software We should not pay for any hardware
>> (besides the servers) that must be provided from PC manufacturers for
>> development ans testing. We already have experience with Intell locally.
>>
>
> You do not think SL should offer hardware to developers to raise funds?
>

Can you also please explain what is what you are proposing?

>
>
>> - OLPC is now also offering a newer model, a classmate-spec machine, and
>>> will send me details about this; its rugged and branded but not got the
>>> pixel qi screen.
>>>
>>> - OLPC only ships Sugar, and is very happy with it, and wants to support
>>> the developer community although isn't sure how to so;
>>>
>>
>> And we are very happy supporting the OLPCs too. We would like to continue
>> doing so in a sustainable way for active members. We should let them know,
>> we are developing a thematic fund structure for OLPC and other "investors"
>> to be able to directorate the resources into specific projects.
>>
>
> I agree that they ought to be one of the many companies we approach for
> funding in the future :)
>

I read from your email they are ready to "support the developer community"
so *let's not keep everybody waiting*!

:D


> - OLPC is willing to put me in touch with deployments if I wanted to visit
>>> them to do user testing of the font editor activity and font design
>>> workshops for kids
>>>
>>
>> I believe full transparency for technical contacts, year of intervention,
>> native language, number of machines, etc should be public information as
>> long as it is public education.
>>
>
> Leah said she could look into how often their customers upgrade Sugar, so
> I guess I'll speak with her again in a couple of months when I have more
> information about the font editor and some idea about the upcoming 0.110
> release.
>
> Cheers
> Dave
>



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