[Grassroots-l] out of date OLPC deployment numbers.

[Samuel Klein]

S, Thanks for the prod.  The old figures were partly because the semantic
queries on that page don't update until you edit the [[Deployments]] page to
cause the tables to refresh (this saves the wiki from grinding to a halt
thanks to having Semantic Forms turned on!), and partly because there was
stale data for some deployments.  The page should now be up to date as of
this summer; stil out of date, but le.

SJ

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:55 AM, S Page <info at skierpage.com> wrote:

> (I'm not sure where to send this...)
>
> In the recent Xconomy Boston interview, NN says
> "The precise numbers today are 1.1 million [laptops] out and a back-log
> of 400,000-700,000, depending on how you count."
>
> Those numbers aren't reflected in the table of laptops shipped in
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments from which people built maps of
> deployments.  The numbers look about the same as they were at the
> beginning of 2009 and add up to 557,932 laptops.
>
> If someone has better numbers for a deployment, they can go to its page,
> click [Edit with form] and update its laptops field.[**]  The table will
> update after a while or if you purge it.
>
> [**] I understand that when this summary feature first appeared, some
> OLPC staff were uncomfortable about sales numbers gaining visibility.
>
> --
> =S Page
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