[Sugar-devel] Greg Smith Over and Out

[Bryan Berry]

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.

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: gregsmithpm at gmail.com.
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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Bryan W. Berry
Technology Director
OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org