Getting the message out

[Tomeu Vizoso]

If we could drop any bit about local groups (local labs or not)
organising themselves to cover the place left by OLPC, would be
awesome.

Regards,

Tomeu

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:23, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> Does the world know that Sugar Labs is still 100% committed to support
> Sugar?
>
> We got nearly zero press coverage lately, and the only message that
> everybody got is that OLPC ditched the development of Sugar, and the
> general mood is pretty negative.
>
> Perhaps we should be much louder in telling people about a few facts
> that would sound surprising outside our small circle and even within it:
>
>  - Sugar's development infrastructure is now mostly independent of
>   OLPC, thanks to generous partners (Ivan, FSF, OSL, prgmr.com,
>   Media Lab);
>
>  - For about 3 months now, Sugar Labs has already been taking
>   care of Sugar development with almost no support from OLPC;
>
>  - Sugar has not lost any of its full-time core developers as a
>   consequence of OLPC's layoffs.
>
>  - All of the core team will stay around as unpaid volunteers
>   while we're looking for new ways to finance their full-time
>   contribution;
>
>  - Today, development of Sugar and activities relies upon 20 active
>   contributors (we actually have 30 user accounts on sunjammer,
>   but some of them don't count as contributors of any kind)
>
>  - Over the past few months, we have grown our community with new
>   contributors, new partners and new distributors;
>
>  - The rate of development seems to be increasing steadily as we
>   consolidate our new community driven development model
>   (we can obtain some support evidence from git)
>
>  - The development cycle is proceeding steadily and 0.84 will be
>   released as planned in March.
>
> It's starting to become clear that 0.84 is where we'll prove our
> credibility as a real community-driven project.
>
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>
> Can anyone spot any factal mistake in the list above?
>
> Or things we'd better not say ?
>
> Is it exaggeratedly positive?
>
> Should we work on a press release or an intervew to deliver this
> message?
>
> --
>   // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/
>  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://www.sugarlabs.org/
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