In fact, the OLPC initiative, in India at least, should be bottom - top and not top - bottom. <div><br></div><div>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.<div>
<br></div><div>That is why I believe that OLPC should not have a minimum number of units order cap and allow for "no minimum quantity" provision! </div><div><br></div><div>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.<br>
<br>A retail store will also help in brand recall and can also serve as after sales, service and demo centres. </div><div><br></div><div>A little help from OLPC is definitely required to change the direction of the initiative in India and retailing is the buzzword today.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Jv</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 5:12 PM, roopesh shenoy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shenoy.roopesh@gmail.com" target="_blank">shenoy.roopesh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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?<div>
<br></div><div>Don't call it a computer - tell them its' a device meant for kids. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div><br clear="all">Roopesh<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Satish Jha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sjha@vsnl.com" target="_blank">sjha@vsnl.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>You are right and I am sorry I misunderstood your statement to be a philosophical one.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Regards</p><div>
<p><br>On 30-09-2012, Walter Bender wrote:</p>
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<pre>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
<span>-- Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> </span></pre>
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