[Olpc-philippines] OLPC SIG - a golden opportunity to participate and contribute

[Jerome Gotangco]

For Fedora enthusiasts out there, would be a good resource!


Jerome

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From: Harish Pillay <harish.pillay at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Subject: [plug] OLPC SIG - a golden opportunity to participate and contribute
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[This is an announcement of the creation of the One Laptop Per Child
Special Interest Group mailing list.]

The engineers at OLPC are busy building an educational experience for
the children of the world.  These engineers are basing their excellent
work on Fedora.

Their time is stretched perilously thin.  Every hour an overworked
OLPC engineer spends doing Fedora work is an hour they could be
spending doing something else.  Those of use who use Fedora and want
to help can have a huge, direct, and immediate impact on the success
of the OLPC project.  Naturally, this is not limited to Fedora devs
and users - *anyone* interested is more than welcome to participate
and contribute.

The mission of the OLPC SIG is to provide the OLPC project with a
strong, sustainable, scalable, community-driven base platform for
innovation.

Some immediate goals:

1. To identify and take responsible ownership of as many OLPC base
packages as possible.

2. To maintain an excellent Sugar environment for Fedora, including a
dedicated Sugar spin.

3. To identify useful opportunities for collaboration (infrastructure,
localization, etc.)

Meetings to work on these goals will be called soon.  If you are
interested in participating, please join the Fedora OLPC mailing list
here and introduce yourself:
                  https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-olpc-list

So, here's an excellent opportunity to make a difference.  I hope you
will be joining me on this effort.

Regards.
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Harish Pillay h.pillay at ieee.org gpg id: 746809E3
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