On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Wes Kussmaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Edward Cherlin wrote: > > > I recently wrote to Nicholas about Illinois HB5000, the Children's > > Low-Cost Laptop Act, and received no reply. > > Yeah, I know the feeling. I recently wrote to the CEO of General Motors > about customizing my minivan for my work and > didn't hear back either...
What's this hostility about? Does it accomplish something? > OLPC now has a big installed base and that means its leadership has lots of > pressing responsibilities. It's leaving the > collegial club behind as it undergoes the wrenching transformation into a > global enterprise. Illinois wants to spend $50 million in a pilot project to put laptops into 300 schools, a project bigger than all of Give One Get One, and I can't the time of day from management. The official line is that Illinois doesn't count. Only getting XOs to poor kids in developing countries counts. > Your Earth Treasury has worthwhile and compatible goals - as do some > hundreds of other OLPC related organizations. If in > that environment you manage to get some of Nicholas's time and attention you > should consider yourself lucky. Not me and my piddly little NGO, the State of Illinois! They are the ones being stiffed. Barack Obama has proposed increasing US foreign aid to $50 billion annually, including a $2 billion Global Education Fund. What is he going to hear from his political friends in Illinois about OLPC? > Wes Kussmaul > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
