<div>Thanks Ajay for compiling a good list of questions.</div>
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<div>We will get back to you soon.</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Manu</div>
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<div>Manusheel Gupta </div>
<div>One Laptop Per Child Inc.</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ajay Kumar</b> <<a href="mailto:ajay@classapart.org">ajay@classapart.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Manu,<br><br>This is really great news. Now one does not have to wait for the<br>government to get all ends tied.
<br>And I personally can go tell all my friends that this is how they can<br>get the devices. I am very happy that I can contribute to the effort by<br>spreading the word around if nothing else.<br><br>A few questions that I anticipate from these friends remain unanswered
<br>though:<br><br> * Cost<br> o Does it change on even larger numbers?<br> o Has the actual landed cost been figured out?<br> o Does it include customs/taxes etc. ?<br> o Does it include shipping to the designated place?
<br> o Does it include insurance right until it reaches the child?<br> * Being the best possible solution:<br> o Are there any authentic reports comparing the XO with<br> intel's classmate pc?
<br> o Or other announced devices like Asus EEE (if they count,<br> that is).<br> * Deployment:<br> o School servers:<br> + What software is going to be available?<br> + What operating systems etc?
<br> + Any content?<br> + Would we need to hire system administrators for the<br> servers?<br> o Network:<br> + Does RDAG provide any bandwidth cost estimates yet?
<br> + Would there be other providers partnering with the<br> laptop foundation?<br> o Support:<br> + Hardware:<br> # Warranty:<br> * What would the warranty time period be?
<br> * Where to take a broken machine? As in,<br> would there be local hardware repair of<br> some form?<br> * What are the exclusions from the warranty?
<br> # Insurance:<br> * Are some insurance plans/partnerships<br> being worked out to take care of the<br> exclusions?<br>
+ Software:<br> # Would we need to hire sysadmins, or the reset<br> button is just fine?<br> # What if we want this package or that installed<br>
on the 100/1000/10000 machines that we request?<br> o Training:<br> + I know children would learn on their own.<br> + Any training need for the teachers? :)<br> + Any likely providers?
<br><br><br>This is just from the top of my head. And I hope that some of these<br>would find a way to the faqs section. And responses to the remaining as<br>a reply to this thread. :)<br><br>I promise to keep posting whatever I hear from my field visits.
<br><br><br>Kind Regards,<br>Ajay<br><br><br><br><br>Manusheel Gupta wrote:<br>> Dear all,<br>><br>> We are glad to inform you about a mechanism to order OLPC laptops(<br>> XOs) for your schools.<br>><br>> You can order 100+/1000+/10000+ laptops starting in November from the
<br>> Give 1 Get 1 program; the price goes down inversely to the<br>> quantity. Please refer to<br>> <a href="http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/givemany.shtml">http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/givemany.shtml
</a> .<br>><br>> You can order for the "English" keyboard laptops right away. For<br>> other keyboards, we will require a 6-8 week lead time.<br>><br>> Regards,<br>> Manu<br>><br>> Manusheel Gupta
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