[Community-news] [sugar] where is Walter?

[Edward Cherlin]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Martin Langhoff
>  >  <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  >  >  What's this hostility about? Does it accomplish something?
>  >  >
>  >  >  Not everyone knows everything about your project - though it's
>  >  >  interesting to hear.
>  >
>  >  Not my project! Illinois's! They asked me to make contact on their behalf.
>
>  Apologies. I am just trying to help.
>
>
>  >  There are regular channels? Why hasn't anybody told me of this before?
>
>  Apparently there is - I didn't know either - I think it's the same
>  path you get through if you go to the givemany page, which is also
>  routed to Darah. This is a rather organic organization, not a top down
>  formal thing.

When I tried the GiveMany address, it went to BrightStar, which has
other problems.

>  >  > People like NN tend to be swamped
>  >
>  >  How does one invite him to State Senate Hearings? Darah or who? Does
>  >  he have an appointments secretary?
>
>  Like any other project lead/figurehead I know -- with persistence and patience.
>
>
>  >  > - again, try
>  >  >  countries at laptop.org
>  >
>  >  Done. Thanks.
>
>  Cool. She's the best point of contact, and can escalate your request.
>  Bear in mind there are lots :-)
>
>
>  >  >  We are working quite amicably with NYC DoE, so I think it's just a
>  >  >  matter of taking things slowly and talking with Darah first :-)
>  >
>  >  Which we is that? OLPC? OLPC New York? I'll get OLPC Chicago to talk
>  >  to OLPC NY in any case.
>
>  OLPC Foundation -- I have visited NYC with Wad to coordinate trials.
>  Note that pilots do take time from OLPC, and we can't say yes to all
>  people as we do have our resource constraints. But if you can be a bit
>  patient, I'm sure we;ll work something out.

Thank you. When would you like to visit Chicago and Springfield?
Illinois, as I said somewhere in this thread, wants to put laptops
into 300 schools to start.

From their 2009 budget presentation:

# of Public School Students (2006-07) – 2,077,856
# of Public School Districts (2006-07) – 871
# of Public School Teachers (2006-07) – 137,481
Average Operating Expense per Pupil (2005-06) –$9,488

>  cheers,
>
>
>
>  m
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