[Grassroots-l] out of date OLPC deployment numbers.

Samuel Klein meta.sj at gmail.com
Wed Nov 4 05:01:54 EST 2009


Er, still out of date, but less so.  :-)   Please help update individual
deployments as good data is published.   SJ

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org> wrote:

> stil out of date, but le.
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SJ
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> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:55 AM, S Page <info at skierpage.com> wrote:
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>> (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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