<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Satya,</div>
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<div>You can easily tell the minister and anyone you needs to know:</div>
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<div>Buying XO is like buying Linux based a couple dozen applications + Windows XP + MS Office use capability and get it all for less than half the price and throw in the laptop for children better than anyone ever produced for free!!!</div>
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<div>If someone still does not get excited, then their motives are not clear.. they are not making an objective choice..</div>
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<div>The cost of deploying 150 (though we do not sell less than 5000!, we will do it for you to showcase it) is 150 x Rs 15000.. this includes all the necessary infrastructure including server and a couple of weeks of an expert being there with the team..Or Rs 2,250,000..</div>
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<div>Contrast this to Rs 23000 per laptop that Goa is reported to be spending.. we do not know if that includes Linux and XP + MS Office use capability.. So its a third less.. HCL may sell for Rs 10,000 and that is just hardware.. If there is no need for a deployment expert, you take care of it all the other infrastructure, then XO can be provided to you along with dual boot (Linux+Windows) for Rs 9999..(at current $ rates).</div>
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<div>Please do send me the details and will explore how best to support you to showcase it.</div>
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<div>Thanks<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Satyanarayana Murthy Saladi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:saladism@gmail.com">saladism@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi dear Satish,<br>Thank you for the prompt responses to the mailing list.<br>I am a keen follower of OLPC and my own involvement has started with an email to Walter in Jan 08 regarding deployment in Yanam. I am forwarding the mail to give some back ground. At that stage Walter said start a translation effort in Telugu, which I have done. I am the language coordinator for Telugu. Our efforts are at <br>
<a href="https://dev.laptop.org/translate/te/" target="_blank">https://dev.laptop.org/translate/te/</a><br>How ever I have not managed to find, how to procure. We lost our chance this year as the minister is going ahead with 150 HCL MiLeap laptops this year partially because I could not give him any more information. He is concentrating on secondary schools as they are closer to higher education and employment. My questions are how can I take this forward so that at least we have a chance next year. <br>
1) what are the minimum numbers required to get XO produced with Telugu/English keyboard.<br>2) Is there any help/guidance to volunteers like me to get Curricula to school servers (similar to OLPC Pootle). <br>3) What is deployment cost for say 150 laptops including school server.<br>
I know the numbers I am talking are very very small.<br>But can I take this forward any more. Is there anything else I can do?<br>cheers,<br>Satya.<br><br>
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Date: 2008/1/13<br>Subject: OLPC deployment In Yanam, India<br>To: <a href="mailto:arjun@laptop.org" target="_blank">arjun@laptop.org</a>, <a href="mailto:walter@laptop.org" target="_blank">walter@laptop.org</a><br><br><br>
Hi dear Walter and Arjun,<br>I got your names from community mailing list.<br>I am doctor from Yanam, India currently working in UK.<br>I am very excited about OLPC project. I spoke to the Member of Legislative Assembly for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanam%252C_India" target="_blank">my place</a> <a href="http://yanam.nic.in/" target="_blank">Yanam</a>, Mr Malladi Krishna rao, who is also Minister for Tourism in Union territory of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pondicherry" target="_blank">Pondicherry</a>, India. He is very progressive and he is an extremely capable politician. He said he will be able to get initially 300 to 400 laptops from a charity which he runs. He initially wants to do this through a charity rather than through government and wants to know if he can get Rs 6000 -Rs 7000 range( $150-180). But he does not know about the project and constuctivism concept. Today is the first time he heard of this project. I think once convinced he is capable of providing the laptops to all <a href="http://yanam.nic.in/statsyanam.htm" target="_blank">6000 children</a> in my place ( my hopes).<br>
The laptop will be needed in Telugu. I spoke to <a href="http://www.swecha.org/node/25" target="_blank">Free Software Foundation of India</a> and they said they will help in localization. <br>I am not a technical person but I use Ubuntu and can troubleshoot my PC with internet help. <br>
<br>My questions are <br><br>Is it also possible to start a pilot in my place?<br>Is it possible to do a demonstration with Telugu localised laptop? <br>In terms of educational content you put in the servers, is it available in Telugu?<br>
In terms of internet connection, I am sure Mr Malladi will be able to arrange through Reliance as he managed to get things done for my place from them before. <br>Who do I need to do to take this further?<br>Any advice is very much appreciated.<br>
Thank you.<br>yours sincerely,<br>Satyanarayana Murthy Saladi<br></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-- Satish Jha <br>T: 301 841 7422<br>F: 301 560 4909<br>IN: +91 98 75 68 39 50<br><a href="http://www.laptop.org">www.laptop.org</a><br>
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