[OLPC India] India Digest, Vol 23, Issue 11

[Sameer Verma]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Marc Valentin
<mvalentin at oeuvredespains.org> wrote:
> "China has gone earlier, but today we are trying to catch them, catch
> that gap, bridge the gap," Bhaskar Narayan, a director at the Indian
> space agency, was quoted by Reuters as having said.
> (http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/21/asia/22indiamoon.php)
>
> Honor has a central importance in indian mentality, I think they would
> send an elephant to Jupiter if needed... if China start sending men to
> the moon for example. :-)


Honor has importance in any society. What differs is how that honor is
perceived and maintained. Of course the mission to the moon could
finance many XOs, just like a single USAF aircraft could finance a
whole lot of school districts :-)
http://www.northernsun.com/n/s/4007N.html

BTW, at 14.6 million USD an F-16 could finance 73,000 XOs.
>
> We were missing a manual for the XO. It is finally available ! Who did
> it ? Indians ? No. It was done by "The FLOSS Manuals", a non-profit
> foundation based in the Netherlands.
> It is possible to order the printed edition here :
> http://www.lulu.com/content/3865224
> It is also possible to download it for free on the same page (pdf).
>


You are missing the point. Floss Manuals is a non-profit foundation
managed in the Netherlands, but the documentation was done by MANY
people and not just Floss Manuals or Adam Hyde. Floss Manuals and Lulu
provide the infrastructure. OLPC and Sugar folks did the manuals. When
it comes to FOSS, there is no geographical compass, really. The Sugar
manuals are as Dutch as Linux is Finnish.


> For the rest... best of luck. You are alone.


I have no idea what you are referring to.

cheers,
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/

>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Usha Gowri <usha.gowri at gmail.com> wrote:
>> When it comes to OLPC,I just dont know what or where we will land.
>> Here we are discussing Afganistan- when we have been waiting in India to
>> find a way out to get the XO to our kids.
>> How does this info and discussion benefit any of us?
>> Its congratulations Afganistan-now what?
>> Will someone help me out?
>> G
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