[OLPC India] OLPC India org structure...

[Arjun Sarwal]

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India: Satish Jha, OLPC India?s CEO and president, has started working
with Manusheel Gupta. Satish will be formally introduced locally be
Nicholas on August 4 during OLPC India Day. (See poster below)

Satish already is discussing a customs duty exemption for the XO with
government officials, and will pursue the subject in upcoming contacts
with various agencies, including the Ministry of Finance
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On 7/29/08, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> Sameer,
>
> I have been involved with OLPC and OLPC India for more than over a year,
> right from the initial pilot to all developments that keep happening
> regularly...
>
> I have also heard the name Satish Jha for the first time! :-)
> And my guess is that many people at Mumbai have so too.....though I am not
> sure.
>
> regards
> Arjun
>
>
>  On 7/29/08, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Amit, Navin and others closer to the organization,
>>
>> I came across an article
>> (
>> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Business/India_Business/Anil_may_join_One_Laptop_Per_Child_project/articleshow/3292263.cms
>> )
>> mentioning "Satish Jha", yet another name I am unfamiliar with. It would
>> be great if we could get a glimpse of the people involved in OLPC India,
>> their roles and responsibilities. We are in a similar situation as the
>> rest of this project - there is the official organization, and then
>> there are volunteers, and the two don't think or work in similar ways.
>> See Kim Quirk's posting on this "disconnect".
>> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-July/016026.html
>>
>> Something simple such as intros about these people or an org chart will
>> do.
>>
>> Sameer
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>> Associate Professor of Information Systems
>> San Francisco State University
>> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
>>
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>
>
> --
> Arjun Sarwal
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Arjun Sarwal
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=SwcSEcfR464
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