<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Bastien <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bastienguerry@googlemail.com">bastienguerry@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Bert Freudenberg <<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>> writes:<br><br>> Can't comment on the French layout but there apparently will not be a<br>
> German layout.<br><br>Same here in France. But there are many developing countries where a<br>french keyboard will be necessary (e.g. Senegal) so maybe there is a<br>little more hope.<br></blockquote>
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<div>Let's not confuse what was logistically feasible / financially sensible to do for the EU G1G1 (which unfortunatley did not move too many units) with what is possible when manufacturing in volume for a deployment.</div>
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<div>The page that has the most detailed information on what keyboards have been designed (including what appears to be information on whether it was released for a manufacturing run) is:</div>
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<div><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data</a></div>
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<div>There are more keyboards listed in the Keyboard table (designed) </div>
<div><u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data#Keyboards">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data#Keyboards</a></font></u></div>
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<div>Than there are in the table sorted by SKU number (manufactured)</div>
<div><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data#SKU.28s.29">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data#SKU.28s.29</a></div>
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<div>Admittedly, this is still not a completely clear mapping of how many of each keyboard have been made, etc., etc. but it still shows that a good number of keyboard variants do exist and clearly demonstrates the ability to create additional ones if justified.</div>
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<div>I do not have doubt that if there was a financial commitment to a substantial deployment in Francophone Africa requiring a French keyboard that the already existing design could be approved for manufacturing and brought online quite rapidly. </div>
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<div>cjl</div></div>