[OLPC India] Windows on OLPC XO 1.5

[RJV]

In fact, the OLPC initiative, in India at least, should be bottom - top and
not top - bottom.

Politicians, in India, belong to a kind of functioning that will not be
productive to the OLPC initiative because politicians have their own
agenda, which will only add a heavy overhead to any marketing initiative
and act as a detriment to the success of the XO and I do not see why to
persist with a model that has not succeeded for 5 years.

That is why I believe that OLPC should not have a minimum number of units
order cap and allow for "no minimum quantity" provision!

Targeting top - bottom has not worked (to the extent that it should have,
no matter what the reason, 4 - 5 years is a long period of functioning) so
by targeting small schools or parents or even by providing for a retail
store for OLPC will be a more productive approach.

A retail store will also help in brand recall and can also serve as after
sales, service and demo centres.

A little help from OLPC is definitely required to change the direction of
the initiative in India and retailing is the buzzword today.

Regards,

Jv


On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 5:12 PM, roopesh shenoy <shenoy.roopesh at gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't understand - why would the same MLAs buy IPads (when it doesn't
> work on windows obviously!) or try to promote Aakash tablet (which works on
> Android), but have problems with seeing XO as just another computing device
> with its own OS?
>
> Don't call it a computer - tell them its' a device meant for kids.
>
> On the other hand, could this be a branding issue with the XO? Unlike the
> IPad where Apple spends a whole lot on advertising, there is very little
> brand-recall for XO - that could be working against the project here. In
> fact, the fact that it is not retailed might be adding to problems.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Roopesh
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Satish Jha <sjha at vsnl.com> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>> You are right and I am sorry I misunderstood your statement to be a
>> philosophical one.
>>
>> As I see it, the request to me has come from someone who is driven to
>> make it happen and has come up against a wall where they believe a computer
>> is a computer only if it uses windows and is willing to justify it on that
>> basis if they can demonstrate OLPC XO uses Windows XP. That is a wall not
>> easy to scale by education.
>>
>> There will be all sorts of people and they know what they know and they
>> have so many people telling them what they like to hear. So the easiest bit
>> will be to just port XP on XO 1.5 and demo and be done with it. If anyone
>> can send an XP loaded SD card that works on XO, a challenge is taken care
>> of rather than take a philosophical route and go for a 100 year war. India
>> is where it is because the way it thinks. I know how I fought my little
>> battles to help PCs come in to the government offices and how I insisted
>> that the daily newspaper I founded for a large national newspaper house be
>> composed on screen in 1983. But we cannot solve al the problems of the
>> universe before we get where we are headed.
>>
>> It will be a great help if anyone can help send these guys an SD card
>> loaded with XP for XO or can guide towards a workaround.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> On 30-09-2012, Walter Bender wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> At its heart, this is a technical issue. It is not obvious that
>> Windows 8 can run on the XO hardware. And if it is possible, it will
>> require a significant investment to do the port. So asking for a
>> rationale for making this investment is not a matter of Puratism, it
>> is a mater of pragmatism.
>>
>> regards.
>>
>> -walter
>> -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org
>>
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Regards,

Ravichandran Jv
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