<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Dec 2, 2008, at 6:52 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">If a thousand people do paper who is going to manually type in each of the key requests?<br></span></blockquote></div><br><div>I thought that was your job.....</div><div><br></div><div>The primary intent is to make developer keys available to users. This is simply the same (rarely-used) process we advertise today at <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer_keys">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer_keys</a> as:</div><div><br></div><div><div><b>If you do not have internet access at all</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>This is very much not recommended, and extraordinarily rare, as most development work is done via email, chat, forums, and other internet-based communication mediums. However, if you must get a developer key and do not have access to the internet at all, you can submit a written request via snail mail to:</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>One Laptop per Child</b></div><div><b>P.O. Box 425087</b></div><div><b>Cambridge, MA 02142</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Your key will be mailed back to you. </b></div></div><div><br></div><div>We are obligated to provide access to developer keys to children who have XO laptops but do not have Internet access. We do have such a mechanism in place, but at the moment someone receiving an XO without Internet access can't get the information shown above. Presumably only those people without access would want to do such a thing.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Ed<br></div></body></html>