<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Hi<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On 11 April 2016 at 10:41, Adam Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><span>On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 11:40 PM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Are you saying that some corresponding laptops were NOT given to poor kids as promised, and the foundation just netted the cash? :)</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span></span><div>[Yes]</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>There is no simple yes/no answer to your question as you and ten-cent journalists would understandably love, when measurement was simply not part of OLPC's culture. As Negroponte devoutly proclaimed. I bought a tough $1 tape measure at the hardware store yesterday, and should ship it to him with a proper thank-you note for bringing us where we are today, as historians are today beginning to assess OLPC's long-term legacy more properly.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><div>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.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Be judicious in never attributing to malice (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor</a>) what can be explained by lack of servant leadership (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership</a>).<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>In the best case it was used to fund the organization unwisely until it was all gone. </div><div><br></div><div>Last week I obtained a copy (for $0.01 + postage) of "Learning To Change The World" and in Chapter 4, page 75, it says </div><div><br></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>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.</div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div><div>Is anyone involved in any of the bad behaviour you are alleging still involved in OLPC or Sugar Labs today? </div></div><div><br></div><div>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 ;)<br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Why sugar-coat the truth?</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Negativity corrodes enthusiasm. Being factual is fine, being grumpy is not :) </div><span class=""><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span></div><span class=""><font color="#888888">-- <br><div>Cheers<br>Dave</div>
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