[Olpc-open] Making Plans

[Kim Quirk]

OLPC's focus is on development, funding and delivery of laptops to the least
developed countries. The expectations for features, testing, support,
logistics, delivery, IT and RF infrastructure (to name a few things) are
widely different between schools in Rwanda and those in NYC (for example).
We just don't have the man-power today to meet these expectations
world-wide.

There are a number of partnerships that we are investigating that can help
us by taking on some of these efforts themselves, but it will take time.
Finding a 'sales' team is not the immediate problem to selling in the US.

Kim

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Edward Cherlin wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org>
> wrote:
> > ...
> >>  Chris, Scott, and I are formulating a release strategy
> >>  for the next 8 or so months with detailed information about what we
> >>  hope to release in 4 months. It remains to be seen how the strategy
> >>  proposed by the Tech Team will be received by the sales team, the
> >>  deployment team, and by other interested parties; however, I am fairly
> >>  confident that, when presented, it will:
> > ...
> >>  In its final form, it will also explain what feedback we have received
> >>  from sales & deployment. In its draft form, it will propose a
> >>  reasonable deadline for revisions based on new feedback from those
> >>  teams.
> > ...
> >>  Michael
> >
> > Who are the sales team, apart from Nicholas? Is there a way for any of
> > us to talk to them? I, OLPC Chicago, and others out here are working
> > on Illinois HB5000, The Children's Low-Cost Laptop Act, which proposes
> > to put laptops in up to 300 schools. It has passed the Illinois House
> > and gone to the Senate. It needs amendments, and we are working with
> > the Lieutenant Governor's office on this. We would like to coordinate
> > our efforts with OLPC's.
>
> Which is the group providing input to the process from the eduction
> point of view (educators, teachers, kids)? Is this feedback part of the
> input from the deployment team?
>
> Thanks,
>     Simon
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