[Testing] Ship Meeting Agenda, for 9/10/07 (today) 11am EDT

[Jim Gettys]

Marco,

Walter has been worrying about this independently with RH, and we're not
putting any of our OLPC resources on it.  It his for possible sales for
a program in the developed world to fund countries who can't afford to
buy laptops at all.

                            - Jim


On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 11:03 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> Kim Quirk wrote:
> >
> >     * Gnome desktop - we had a discussion about where the
> >       communications disconnect has been since Nicholas, Mary Lou,
> >       Robert, and Walter (and maybe Jim) have all known about the need
> >       for a RedHat supported desktop for months.
> >           o There is no plan internally for this project. Perhaps the
> >             plan was to do it entirely outside of OLPC people.
> >           o Kim's concern is that if this alternate desktop is not
> >             well supported it will still reflect badly on OLPC. She is
> >             also concerned about prioritizing the usage olpc resources
> >             that have high priority bugs and features for trial-3 and
> >             FRS. If/when this is an issue she will bring it up with
> >             Walter.
> >
> 
> Kim, can you please elaborate a bit on the scope and on the uses of this 
> new project?
> 
> A lot of us are working hard on Sugar trying to make it successful 
> despite the self-evident disproportion between the available resources 
> and the time/requirements. Seeing resources moved on another project is 
> both surprising and demotivating.
> 
> Thanks,
> Marco
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child