[OLPC India] #olpc-india on IRC

[Dev Mohanty]

Agreed. Am all for it and thanks again for the mail.

Satish Jha wrote:
> Thank you for your kind email.
>  
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Dev Mohanty <devm at nepalwireless.net 
> <mailto:devm at nepalwireless.net>> wrote:
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>     /*Am quite perplexed with the thought that a person of your
>     stature, does not to understand that this project is not about
>     Nepal or India, I had a feeling you better understood the benefits
>     of "sharing experiences & collaborative work" with respect to
>     deployments across the globe. */ 
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> It is called OLPC India list for a reason. It has one focus..India.. I 
> would appreciate if any message posted on this list is polite and 
> respectful and geared towards achieving the goals of OLPC India. We 
> will come to sharing deployment experiences when there is a 
> deployment. From your response you sound like a bright, young techie 
> who may benefit greatly from learning about collaboration.. 
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>     /I was more then willing to extend a helping hand as have done so
>     in the past. But then it seems that.. you're the one who's not on
>     the same page on it.
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> Everyone on this list has been very pro-active and has greatly 
> contributed to the evolution of OLPC and, though I am new here, I am 
> aware of that and greatly appreciate it. However, we have to redfine 
> the meaning of this list and I sincerely hope you would like to be on 
> the same page. The fact is that all the help given by everyone on this 
> list in the past has not contributed to the spread of OLPC. So we need 
> to re-orient this group and get help of the kind that is needed. It 
> will be helpful to know what you know and help when called upon to do 
> so or volunteer when you can and let the organization see how that can 
> be put to effective use.
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> I would measure our success in rolling OLPC out and I believe so far 
> we have not had any effective demand for OLPC in the region. This 
> listsev is about helping that process as much as it is about 
> undersatnding some of the technical issues that may crop up.
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> Then again, technical issues are more likely to be common across the 
> globe. However, the issues of outreach, getting governments to support 
> it, corporations to come forward and pay for it are likely to be more 
> specific to regions though there may be some lessons that will be 
> valuable to share.
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> Most of all, however, its important that we remain focused and discuss 
> responsibly.
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