[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Re: [UKids] Re: The future of Sugar on XO-1s

[Tony Anderson]

Sorry, I was traveling this morning and in too much of a hurry. So this 
only went to UKids. As I recall the numbers, Rwanda purchased 100,000 
units and received 110,000 for $200,000.

Tony


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Subject: 	Re: [UKids] Re: [Sugar-devel] The future of Sugar on XO-1s
Date: 	Tue, 12 Apr 2016 09:03:39 +0800
From: 	Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
To: 	unleashkids at googlegroups.com



Dave

In my understanding, the Give 1 laptops from the first round went to 
Mongolia (Ulan Bator). Most of the second round Give1s went to Rwanda as 
a deal-sweetner (lowered the effective unit cost of the Rwanda buy).

Tony

On 04/12/2016 01:06 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On 11 April 2016 at 10:41, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org 
> <mailto:holt at laptop.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 11:40 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com>
>     wrote:
>
>
>         Are you saying that some corresponding laptops were NOT given
>         to poor kids as promised, and the foundation just netted the
>         cash? :)
>
>
>     [Yes]
>
>
> That's a bold assertion, but fair enough. In the worst imaginary 
> scenario, the OLPC Foundation board transferred the money into their 
> personal Panama accounts, or spent it on lavish junkets, or whatever. 
> In the best case it was used to fund the organization unwisely until 
> it was all gone.
>
> Last week I obtained a copy (for $0.01 + postage) of "Learning To 
> Change The World" and in Chapter 4, page 75, it says
>
>     After the February 2008 board meeting, OLPC and the Sugar
>     community split. One month later, Sugar Labs was founded as an
>     independent non-profit organization that would continue to drive
>     the development and dissemination of the Sugar learning software.
>     In the immediate aftermath of the split, OLPC rapidly expanded its
>     staff, going from fewer than twenty full-time employees to nearly
>     sixty.
>
>
> I imagine that is about $4M/year in wages. That in itself seems 
> completely unwise when the organisation was failing to close large 
> sales. You also allege it was spent on same-day flights. I could 
> believe it.
>
> But, well, whatever. This was a long time ago. Whatever way the money 
> was spent, it was spent, and is long gone. The foundation was 
> eventually wound down, the association was eventually wound down, and 
> now there is just this husk of OLPC Inc today, with 
> to-date-anonymous-to-me workers dutifully supplying XO-4s to anyone 
> who will order them, and paying ol' James here on contract to do 
> needed technical maintenance work.
>
> Is anyone involved in any of the bad behaviour you are alleging still 
> involved in OLPC or Sugar Labs today?
>
> Even if they are, I don't see value in guilt tripping them about what 
> happened; nor really am I too curious about chasing down what actually 
> happened, unless you have a plan to recover the money and avoid 
> defamation lawsuits ;)
>
>     Why sugar-coat the truth?
>
>
> Negativity corrodes enthusiasm. Being factual is fine, being grumpy is 
> not :)
>
> -- 
> Cheers
> Dave
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