[OLPC India] Partnering with OLPC in India

[Dev Mohanty]

Seems like am caught on the wrong foot, but then transparent data is 
always welcome.. for the ignorant few like me. I volunteer on a couple 
of OLPC pilots in Nepal as a network/system admin, and am well aware of 
the headaches involved with a deployment. Its most definitely not the 
project, but with the strategies being adopted that my concerns are 
with. That said, I am quite hopeful Satish would keep all concerned 
posted on updates on various fronts in the forth coming days.

On-On!

Here's to education and the future of tomorrow! Jeez.. Bernie the 
Italian wine sucks!!

Satish Jha wrote:
> Thanks, Josh.
> That's very helpful.
>
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Joshua N Pritikin 
> <jpritikin at pobox.com <mailto:jpritikin at pobox.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 07:32:09PM +0545, Dev Mohanty wrote:
>     > if they've even figured out how to replace broken hardware,
>
>     Repair centers are going up around the world. India could be next.
>     Just
>     google for data.
>
>     > or are they even thinking of tagging XO's anywhere close to the 100
>     > USD figure sometime in the recent future, which to me sounds awfully
>     > far-fetched right now.
>
>     An Indian G1G1 would make that possible.
>
>     > Well, if it's all about the education, then I firmly believe no
>     number
>     > should not be small enough for a pilot.
>
>     Being the tech contact for the pilot in my school, I can
>     understand why
>     we need to get to bigger numbers. The amount of effort required to
>     manage the laptops is much more for small pilots than for big pilots.
>
>     - Child ownership means that the teachers don't have to figure out how
>     to uncustomize the laptop after the previous child customized it. The
>     next release 8.2 is going to be much more customizable than 8.1.
>
>     - A school server is approximately the same amount of headache to
>     set up
>     for 10 laptops as it is for 1000 laptops.
>
>     - For hardware failures, we can't afford to deal with them because
>     they
>     are so infrequent. If there were 10,000 laptops then we could probably
>     afford one full-time person for hardware repairs and troubleshooting.
>
>     This is just the tip of the iceberg. Big deployments make sense. Small
>     deployments consume too much effort for the payback.
>
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