Hi Greg. You have been an inspiration and a source of strength for all the LA volunteers..without you OLPC-sur would not have been as it is now. I  also want to thank you for the help you gave me to organize efforts in Colombia Thank you so much..and good luck in your future endeavors. P.S if you come to Colombia sometime, i'll be glad to be your host. Rafael Ortiz <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Bryan Berry <<a href="mailto:bryan@olenepal.org">bryan@olenepal.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I am really sorry to read this Greg. You have done a fantastic job and you will be sorely missed. I think you have been a damn good manager and you have contributed a lot to this project, certainly to Nepal's deployments and others. Your real impact has been in making the XO and Sugar a more sturdy and predictable product that will work in the field and not just on the drawing board. <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 10:02 -0500, Greg Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > My time on this project is over for now! I was laid off yesterday and > tomorrow is my last day at OLPC. > > So many things to follow up on, its hard to know where to begin handing > off. I can say that XO Camp is on for next week as planned. SJ is now > coordinating it. > > Aside from that, contact Ed McNierney <ed at laptop dot org> for any > development questions or anything else on my plate. > > I'm sorry to drop the ball, but I need to find a new job ASAP. Perhaps I > can participate again in the future but I'm unsubscribing from all lists > as of tomorrow. > > If I can pass along some history or other work, don't hesitate to > contact me. > > My new e-mail address: <a href="mailto:gregsmithpm@gmail.com">gregsmithpm@gmail.com</a>. > > To come to OLPC, I left a safe and lucrative job making some of the most > advanced computers in the world. I took a big risk to work on what I > think is important and I gave it everything I could. > > I have no regrets. I'm proud of what I accomplished and honored to have > been a member of this great community. > > Its time to go back and take care of my own family again. Let me know if > anyone has leads on Product Manager openings in Massachusetts or > tele-commuting. My technical specialties have been high-end routers and > networking, distributed server architectures, image and video > processing, and online marketing including data analysis. Now I'll add > open source development, social networking/Web 2.0, educational > software, low cost computing and wireless networking to that list ;-) > > As a product manager, I write the business case and technical > requirements and manage all aspects of the project to get a quality > product built and shipped on time. Give me n engineers to work with and > I'll give you n Million $s in revenue in the first year and double that > every 6 months after. > > That's my new pitch :-) Send me an e-mail with any leads or for a copy > of my resume. > > Good luck! Please keep at it if you can. There are hundreds of thousands > of kids using the XO now. Regardless of organizational priorities, they > deserve the very best software available. > > Thanks, > > Greg S > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </div></div>-- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, <a href="http://www.olenepal.org" target="_blank">http://www.olenepal.org</a> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>