[OLPC-Philippines] I have reserved the name already

[Mel Chua]

Thanks for the update, Charles - definitely keep us in the loop with 
what you're doing! (We can only help out with the things we know about, 
after all.)

I think it's totally fine (indeed, even ideal) to have multiple groups 
working on this problem in the Philippines from different angles - we 
all want to see the same thing - Filipino kids transforming themselves 
into kickass learners - and also believe that (well-implemented!) 
technology will play no small part in this, and having different groups 
try different things just means we'll be able to learn that much more 
from each other.

The folks at 1cc are great (admittedly, I'm biased on this ;) and doing 
fantastic work, and keeping in touch with them, through a foundation 
expressly set for that purpose or otherwise, is a good idea. The folks 
at Sugar Labs are great (admittedly, I'm biased on this too...) and 
doing fantastic work, and keeping in touch with them is also a very good 
idea. The people on this list don't /have/ to tie themselves to one 
organization or another - personally, I hope we'll each choose to give 
ourselves the same freedom of choice that we want to give Filipino kids 
in their education. It doesn't mean we can't work with OLPC or Sugar 
Labs (in fact, I really hope we will!) but it does mean we shouldn't 
restrict ourselves to doing so. That's the Freedom in Free Software - 
it's not just the software, too.

Happy Independence Day, all. :)

--Mel

Charles Chen wrote:
> Hi Cherry,
> 
> I just wanted to let you know I was the person who reserved the name 
> OLPC Philippines Foundation Inc (OPFI) with the SEC.
> 
> Hopefully, I will incorporate the foundation in the next few weeks once 
> I have obtained the needed funds available for this purpose.