XO deployment count?

[david at lang.hm]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Eben Eliason wrote:

> As an asset on our main website, it aims to be as authoritative as
> possible.  The current numbers were populated via the wiki
> (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments), which I believe is kept
> mostly up to date (but I could be wrong).  A few of the numbers have
> been adjusted or added since the initial population of the map via the
> wiki (Ghana, for instance).
>
> If these numbers are low, or deployments are missing, please let me
> know!  What other sources have you found?

on the olpc wiki I've seen links to the New York deployment in the past

currently one of the links on the front page of the wiki points at 
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/22041/ (March 2008) which 
states that 400k laptops are going to peru

also on that same front page there is a link to 
http://radian.org/notebook/astounded-in-arahuay (also march 2008) which 
states 260 odd thousand laptops.

David Lang

> - Eben
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:10 PM,  <david at lang.hm> wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Eben Eliason wrote:
>>
>>> The countries page of the new website has a nice embedded google map
>>> which reveals a high level view of the current stats (ordered +
>>> shipped).  I believe that SJ added an extension to the OLPC wiki
>>> recently to allow map embedding, but I haven't had a chance to look at
>>> it yet.
>>>
>>> http://laptop.org/en/children/countries/
>>
>> thanks, that's useful, but how up-to-date are the numbers?
>>
>> this shows 145,000 for peru while I've seen numbers of 260k or 400k listed
>> in other places (just to pick an example I've heard about)
>>
>> it also doesn't show some deployments that I've heard about (New York),
>> while listing some places with insignificant numbers of laptops (500 or
>> less)
>>
>> David Lang
>>
>>> - Eben
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:46 PM,  <david at lang.hm> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> in trying to counter some of the 'OLPC is a failing company' FUD I found
>>>> that it would be useful to be able to say how many laptops were shipped
>>>> in
>>>> the last year, unfortunantly I wasn't able to dig anything sane up in 15
>>>> min of digging.
>>>>
>>>> could you guys give us an idea of where things stand (it would probably
>>>> be
>>>> nice to have approximate figures on the front page of the wiki for
>>>> bragging purposes as well)
>>>>
>>>> the ideal would be # purchased(contracted for) plus number physically
>>>> shipped.
>>>>
>>>> David Lang
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