Short answer: It doesn't.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>Somewhere in between answer: If one of the goals was to make deployments here truly independent and community-run, I see this as a <i>massive</i> plus.<br><br>--Mel<br><br>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. ;-)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Christopher Vance <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christopher.vance@gmail.com">christopher.vance@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki</a><br>
<a href="http://www.olpcnews.com/people/leadership/a_new_day_at_olpc.html" target="_blank">http://www.olpcnews.com/people/leadership/a_new_day_at_olpc.html</a><br>
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Basically, OLPC laid off 50% of it's workforce, is separating itself<br>
from Sugar development, and apparently stopping work on the XO. I've<br>
only just read the news, so I'm not sure how this affects pilots like<br>
CFS or other opportunities. See the links for more information.<br>
<br>
-Chris<br>
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