Re: [Server-devel] Dealing with the disruptions caused by XSCE.

2013-08-08 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 03:35:05PM -0500, David Farning wrote: > I think this is a reasonable position. It provides legitimacy for olpc > (lowercase) projects without implying support or endorsement by OLPC. > (uppercase) I think for the moment that we are using "community" instead of "olpc (lower

Re: [Server-devel] Dealing with the disruptions caused by XSCE.

2013-08-08 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: > Unfortunately you chose a week to ask this question when many people are on > vacation. > > I will give my personal, non-official response; however as it is wider > issue, server-devel@ likely is not the list this should be discussed on. >

Re: [Server-devel] Dealing with the disruptions caused by XSCE.

2013-08-08 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:47 AM, David Farning wrote: > This disruption is particularly evident in the relationship between > XSCE and OLPC. Long term, XSCE _might_ be valuable to OLPC in their > role as "The world food bank of education." Short term. in their roles > as a sustainable business, it

Re: [Server-devel] Dealing with the disruptions caused by XSCE.

2013-08-08 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
Unfortunately you chose a week to ask this question when many people are on vacation. I will give my personal, non-official response; however as it is wider issue, server-devel@ likely is not the list this should be discussed on. Recently there have been a number of cases where volunteers along w

[Server-devel] Dealing with the disruptions caused by XSCE.

2013-08-08 Thread David Farning
Over the past couple of days there have been some threads about XSCE and OLPC-XS which raised some interesting questions. The primary impetus for the project was that several of the original participants had struggled to deploy and adapt OLPC-XS to meet a specific deployments needs. The original S