[IAEP] OLPC and Sugar Labs -- a Sugar Labs perspective

2008-12-13 Thread Walter Bender
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) mission is to create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. Sugar Labs has a

Re: [IAEP] OLPC and Sugar Labs -- a Sugar Labs perspective

2008-12-13 Thread David Farning
I would also add a clause (d) similar to the following. (d) many Sugar Labs community members remain deeply committed as individuals to advancing the XO and they continue to develop, distribute, and support Sugar on the XO. With or without the new clause, I will stand behind Walter's statement:)

Re: [IAEP] OLPC and Sugar Labs -- a Sugar Labs perspective

2008-12-13 Thread Edward Cherlin
Add to this Earth Treasury's mission: to do whatever is vital to the success of OLPC and Sugar Labs, but out of their scope. Our projects include o Electricity and Internet for villages. o Microfinance for international business, such as e-commerce. o Two diskless computers and a USB stick per

Re: [IAEP] OLPC and Sugar Labs -- a Sugar Labs perspective

2008-12-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 8:43 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: (d) many Sugar Labs community members remain deeply committed as individuals to advancing the XO and they continue to develop, distribute, and support Sugar on the XO. Oh totally, +1! Marco