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 The page should now be up to date as of this summer; stil out of date, but le.<br>
<br>SJ<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:55 AM, S Page <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@skierpage.com">info@skierpage.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
(I'm not sure where to send this...)<br>
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In the recent Xconomy Boston interview, NN says<br>
"The precise numbers today are 1.1 million [laptops] out and a back-log<br>
of 400,000-700,000, depending on how you count."<br>
<br>
Those numbers aren't reflected in the table of laptops shipped in<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments</a> from which people built maps of<br>
deployments. The numbers look about the same as they were at the<br>
beginning of 2009 and add up to 557,932 laptops.<br>
<br>
If someone has better numbers for a deployment, they can go to its page,<br>
click [Edit with form] and update its laptops field.[**] The table will<br>
update after a while or if you purge it.<br>
<br>
[**] I understand that when this summary feature first appeared, some<br>
OLPC staff were uncomfortable about sales numbers gaining visibility.<br>
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=S Page<br>
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