Re: [marketing] India to launch $10 laptop?

2009-02-18 Thread Benjamin Horst
I agree that a mini-OOo could bring lots of users from mobile devices and netbooks. However, I think this is a branding issue. There's no chance in this world that Microsoft Office Mobile is actually built on the same code as the desktop version, but they branded it that way to build recogn

Re: [marketing] India to launch $10 laptop?

2009-02-18 Thread Tirthankar
+1 A small footprint OO is very much required. Tirthankar http://insanityrulz.blogspot.com/ On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:18 PM, jonathon wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 15:53, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > > > to run OOo on it because there is not enough processing power at being > just 433Mhz c

Re: [marketing] India to launch $10 laptop?

2009-02-18 Thread jonathon
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 15:53, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > to run OOo on it because there is not enough processing power at being just > 433Mhz clockspeed. > This makes it very hard to run OOo regarding of RAM or storage. This is where a rewrite of OOo tailored specifically for PDAs and/or smar

Re: [marketing] India to launch $10 laptop?

2009-02-04 Thread Alexandro Colorado
so arguably the most expensive part of the device is the display. It seems this hasnt have a display from what it seems on the pictures and on the articles. Sure OOo can run on this device being at just 2GB storage. But I am a afraid we would need more processing power (RAM was not mentioned). I h

Re: [marketing] India to launch $10 laptop?

2009-02-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Tirthankar wrote: > Its launched :) > > http://www.rediff.com/money/2009/feb/03india-unveils-10-dollar-laptop.htm http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/india/2009-February/000936.html -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I s

Re: [marketing] India to launch $10 laptop?

2009-02-04 Thread Tirthankar
Its launched :) http://www.rediff.com/money/2009/feb/03india-unveils-10-dollar-laptop.htm Tirthankar http://blogs.sun.com/tirthankar On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > This announcements has been going on for a while now but nothing out > there yet. I dont think I can

Re: [marketing] India to launch $10 laptop?

2009-02-02 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Sagar Shankar wrote: > True Alexandro, but the press release does mention that it is going to be > unveiled tomorrow. Who knows, maybe this wont be the Indian "Duke Nukem > Forever"?? Aside from that, I wonder what the subsidy bill on this laptop > will be like.

Re: [marketing] India to launch $10 laptop?

2009-02-02 Thread Sagar Shankar
True Alexandro, but the press release does mention that it is going to be unveiled tomorrow. Who knows, maybe this wont be the Indian "Duke Nukem Forever"?? [?] Aside from that, I wonder what the subsidy bill on this laptop will be like. Also, as idle speculation I think it will be a portable versi

Re: [marketing] India to launch $10 laptop?

2009-02-01 Thread Andrew Loughran
I'm going to be based in India from the 24th March. Can someone from the Indian Loco please get in touch so I have a way to keep up to dates with the developments over there in relation to OOo? I'll be working primarily in the healthcare sector, but hoping to expand that to education too. Regar

Re: [marketing] India to launch $10 laptop?

2009-02-01 Thread Alexandro Colorado
This announcements has been going on for a while now but nothing out there yet. I dont think I can calculate implications based on vaporware and so little details from the project. On 2/1/09, Sagar Shankar wrote: > A few details at > > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Rs_500-laptop_disp

[marketing] India to launch $10 laptop?

2009-02-01 Thread Sagar Shankar
A few details at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Rs_500-laptop_display_on_Feb_3/articleshow/4049914.cmsInteresting implications for FOSS Regards, Sagar Shankar