Hi All,
My time on this project is over for now! I was laid off yesterday and tomorrow is my last day at OLPC.
So many things to follow up on, its hard to know where to begin handing off. I can say that XO Camp is on for next week as planned. SJ is now coordinating it.
Aside from that, contact Ed McNierney <ed at laptop dot org> for any development questions or anything else on my plate.
I'm sorry to drop the ball, but I need to find a new job ASAP. Perhaps I can participate again in the future but I'm unsubscribing from all lists as of tomorrow.
If I can pass along some history or other work, don't hesitate to contact me.
My new e-mail address: gregsmithpm@gmail.com.
To come to OLPC, I left a safe and lucrative job making some of the most advanced computers in the world. I took a big risk to work on what I think is important and I gave it everything I could.
I have no regrets. I'm proud of what I accomplished and honored to have been a member of this great community.
Its time to go back and take care of my own family again. Let me know if anyone has leads on Product Manager openings in Massachusetts or tele-commuting. My technical specialties have been high-end routers and networking, distributed server architectures, image and video processing, and online marketing including data analysis. Now I'll add open source development, social networking/Web 2.0, educational software, low cost computing and wireless networking to that list ;-)
As a product manager, I write the business case and technical requirements and manage all aspects of the project to get a quality product built and shipped on time. Give me n engineers to work with and I'll give you n Million $s in revenue in the first year and double that every 6 months after.
That's my new pitch :-) Send me an e-mail with any leads or for a copy of my resume.
Good luck! Please keep at it if you can. There are hundreds of thousands of kids using the XO now. Regardless of organizational priorities, they deserve the very best software available.
Thanks,
Greg S