[OLPC India] some progress during "March madness"

[Pradyot Sahu]

Hi
Good to see the progress.
Just wondering, how you are planning to organize customer support ?

thanks
Pradyot

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:30 PM,  <india-request at lists.laptop.org> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:59:15 +0000
> From: Saurabh Adhikari <adhikaris at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [OLPC India] some progress during "March madness"
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> I understand that the "March madness" that comes with closing the financial year on the 31st March has brought some good news for OLPC India.
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> One industrial house has ordered 25000 laptops over the year 2010 out of which 2000 have been ordered to be in place by 31st March.
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> Another industrialist has offered a fully furnished office space for 10 professionals, managers and the leadership of OLPC India along with putting all the professionals on their payroll.
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> Yet another industrial house has ordered to roll out to 10,000 children from the 2009-19 budget and another 40,000 from the 2010-11 budget.
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> While there may be more, I thought of sharing with you what has been firmed up and may require many of the OLPC enthusiasts an opportunity to work with the implementation challenges this year.
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> Sincerely,
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> S Adhikari
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