On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Saswata Banerjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Sameer, > > I am interested in finding out how we as individuals can purchase these > OLPC laptops, either for our own use or for gifting them to deserving > kids. There are some of us who dont have money like Reliance to buy / > fund or donate by thousands but can purchase and given 1 or 2 at a time > to people we know will make good use of it. > > I have not seen any information on this till date. >
Hi Saswata, The only thing I know of in the near future is the Give one Get one program that will begin on Nov 17 via Amazon (http://amazon.com/xo). This is going to be a US only deal at first but there are plans to take this to Europe and Asia. The other option is to run it on your Linux machines directly. If you go to http://sugarlabs.org/ you should be able to get instructions for installing the packages under Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, etc. You will get a functioning Sugar environment on your desktop. People have even suggested LTSP based labs at primary schools with Sugar on the desktop. I would definitely recommend joining the India list at OLPC: http://lists.laptop.org/ IMO this project needs significant advocacy and involvements from the LUG communities in India and elsewhere. After all, this crowd doesn't need to be "educated" on the merits of FOSS, CC, etc. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ > Regards > Saswata > > Dinesh Shah (????? ???/????? ???) wrote: >> Dear Sameer, >> >> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hello Linuxers, >>> >>> I am visiting from San Francisco on vacation. I have been working with >>> the One Laptop per Child project in volunteer capacity for a few years >>> now. I organize and host meetings for the OLPC San Francisco group. >>> Most of my research revolves around FOSS as innovation, and >>> sustainable IT infrastructures. Projects I've worked with: Ubuntu, >>> Fedora, Asterisk, OpenMoko, Maemo, Nocat, Jabber, Moodle, Drupal, etc. >>> >> >> It's nice to know about your contributions in FOSS. >> >> >>> I was referred to this group by someone, so this is a shot in the dark >>> :-) I am not sure if any of you are involved in OLPC efforts both in >>> India and worldwide. Here are a few basic facts: The OLPC project is >>> based largely on Fedora (7 and 9) and runs on XO laptops that are >>> powered by a 433MHz x86 Geode processor with 256 MB RAM. The laptop >>> itself consumes a max of 8 watts. There are approx 600,000 OLPC XO >>> laptops in the field with children worldwide - the next generation - >>> with 55,000 laptops shipping out each month. Sounds like fun, doesn't >>> it? ;-) >>> >> >> We as group is not directly involved with OLPC. However, many members >> of the list may have worked on OLPC or other similar project. Many >> more would be interested in knowing more and ways to get involved. >> >> >>> I will be in Mumbai until the 26th. If there is any interest, I'd be >>> happy to meet/present on the project, its approach, the role of FOSS, >>> etc. Ping me on or offlist. I'm also copying Amit Gogna of Reliance >>> who has worked with this project in India and has been instrumental in >>> the first pilot study. Maybe some of you can connect with him. >>> >> >> We just yesterday held a ILUG-Bom meet @ Powai. Next is scheduled >> either on 16th or 23rd Nov. However, we can have BoF like session at >> the venue of your choice before your departure and all interested >> people can participate. >> >> And Hello to Amit. I hope you are on the list? >> >> >>> cheers, >>> Sameer >>> -- >>> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. >>> Associate Professor of Information Systems >>> San Francisco State University >>> San Francisco CA 94132 USA >>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/ >>> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ >>> >> >> Will be happy to meet in BoF and learn more about OLPC and accessible >> computing. >> With regards, >> > > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
