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Sameer,<BR>
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You may be living on dated information.<BR>
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I am a volunteer for OLPC India as well and understand that there is NO OFFICIAL relationship between OLPC India and Reliance and Digital Foundation.<BR>
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What you are talking about was done a year ago on the basis of laptops DONATED by OLPC to what seemed like the Reliance organization. Some of their employees volunteered for it.<BR>
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Khairat was led by Carla of OLPC and not the person you name, though I hear he did a good job of supporting it at some point in time. However, there is no connectivity at Khairat despite the reports of Reliance of having supported it. <BR>
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Also, Relaince did not seem to have put in any resources, did not buy any XOs and OLPC had to create a formal OLPC India organization (<A href="http://www.laptop.org/en/utility/people/satish-jha.html">http://www.laptop.org/en/utility/people/satish-jha.html</A>), a fact that seemed to have escaped you, that has about couple dozen senior volunteers including Prajakt Raut (former Directo of TiE Asia, Nilu (a former no 2 of Spectramind), Kanchan Gupta (a former VOP of GE) and a dozen others equally senior folks.<BR>
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The action is in a dozen new schools that you do not seem aware of. And various large scale deployments that are being planned. <BR><BR>
Will you please let me know the list where real discussions are taking place? <BR>
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Yes, we do need to build community. However, we need a large number of users as well. And we should all be hearing about that officially sometime sooner than later.<BR>
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Sincerely,<BR>
S Adhikari<BR></DIV><BR><BR><BR>
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. <BR><BR>cheers,<BR>Sameer<BR>-- <BR>Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<BR>Associate Professor of Information Systems<BR>San Francisco State University<BR>San Francisco CA 94132 USA<BR><A href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</A><BR><A href="http://opensource.sfsu.edu/">http://opensource.sfsu.edu/</A><BR></body>
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