[OLPC_Boston] FYI: Recent changes at OLPC

[Mel Chua]

Short answer: It doesn't.

Less short answer: The local grassroots deployments were deliberately made
independent of OLPC-the-organization, and of anyone's employment status
therein; software development still continues (and can be picked up by
volunteers as well - yay open-source!) and last I heard, the CFS deployment
was doing better than ever - though perhaps someone on the loop team
(they're on this list) or on the visiting deployment team (cc'd, since
they're non-local and may not be) can chime in here and update on what's
going on.

Somewhere in between answer: If one of the goals was to make deployments
here truly independent and community-run, I see this as a *massive* plus.

--Mel

PS: My own employment with OLPC will end tomorrow, like many others -
however, I've been a volunteer for over 2 years now and have no intention of
stopping that. ;-)

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Christopher Vance <
christopher.vance at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki
> http://www.olpcnews.com/people/leadership/a_new_day_at_olpc.html
>
> Basically, OLPC laid off 50% of it's workforce, is separating itself
> from Sugar development, and apparently stopping work on the XO.  I've
> only just read the news, so I'm not sure how this affects pilots like
> CFS or other opportunities.  See the links for more information.
>
> -Chris
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