XOCamp 2/Old fundraising

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(Paypal donations are via User:CScott's tiny web business, Ahuas Emigre Press; Paypal takes 2-3% off the top of your donation, email cscott at cscott.net if you'd prefer to send a check)

OLPC's travel budget for XOcamp 2 fell through, and they can't afford to get everyone to the XO camp who should be there. We need your help to get key developers from Germany, Czech Republic, Italy and South Africa to Boston. Christoph wrote an excellent OLPCnews story on the situation.

This page will track the status of the fundraising efforts. I'll list all the developers below who have made proposals for the XOcamp but can't attend, and as they add it, the cost of getting them to Boston. We'll also need volunteers to host them in your homes when they get to Boston; please add your name to the #Housing section below to volunteer.

Currently we have:

  • $2950 pledged (~5 developers, at $600 each)
  • 2 housing spots

Donations

Click 'edit' and add your name here to pledge funds, or just use the paypal link above. Please leave some way to get in touch with you, or email that information privately to cscott at cscott.net

  • User:CScott (cscott at cscott.net) has pledged $1000 for sugar developers
  • Michael Stone (michael at laptop.org) has pledged $1000 for speakers
  • Christoph ( christoph at olpcnews.com) has pledged $100 for anyone
  • User:Ohshima (yoshiki at vpri.org) has pledged $50 for sugar developers
  • An anonymous donor has pledged $800.

Housing

Click 'edit' and add your name here to pledge housing. Please leave some way to get in touch with you, or email that information privately to cscott at cscott.net

  • Michael Stone (michael at laptop.org) has pledged to house 2 friendly speakers.

Adopt a developer!

Please feel free to add anyone I've missed; I just compiled this quickly by scanning emails to devel@ and sugar@ with 'Proposal' in the title. If you're one of the listed developers, please add your location and the approximate cost of airfare, if you can determine it -- or remove yourself if you've made a proposal but aren't actually interested in attending, or can donate your own travel costs. I tried to roughly sort by number of proposals made (talks to be given).

Marco Pesenti Gritti (marcopg).
Core Sugar developer
Proposals: Desktop compatibility, Top Five performance problems, Web-based activities
From: Milan, Italy. Cost: ~ US$600.
Tomeu Vizoso
Core Sugar developer
Proposals: View source everywhere, others?
From: ? Cost: ?
Deepak Saxena (dsaxena)
Kernel developer
Proposals: Low memory/OOM conditions, Filesystems
From: Washington State. Cost: ?
Sayamindu Dasgupta (sayamindu)
Sugar developer/Translation lead
Proposals: Legacy compatibility, i18n and l18n in 9.1 and beyond
From: ? Cost: ?
Carlos Mauro
Proposals: MouseTrap for Sugar, Per-Country Sugar themes, Usability testing
From: ? Cost: ?
Martin Langhoff
School server developer
Proposals: Printing, School Server Update
From: ? Cost: ?
Mikus Grinbergs?
Proposals: Submitting homework, Control Panel improvements
Morgan Collett (morgs)
Sugar developer/Collaboration developer
Proposals: Link local collaboration
From: South Africa. Cost: $1200
Edward Cherlin
Proposals: Textbooks
From: ? Cost: ?
Peter Robinson?
Proposals: Fedora integration
From: ? Cost: ?
Yamandu Ploskonka?
Proposals: Report Cards on XO
From: ? Cost: ?
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