[OLPC.ch] We are loosing another year...

[Dev Mohanty]

Huh? Its kinda weird that my last mail seems broken up into two parts
with some lines missing.. (in the Archive) Can the list admin pls have
a look.

On 6/8/09, Dev Mohanty <devm at nepalwireless.net> wrote:
> Forgive my ignorance on the current state of affairs in Switzerland w/
>  regards to XOs. I have been trying to catch up with the previous posts
>  in the archive, but then unfortunately most of it is Greek to me (Can
>  only read/write English and French)
>
>  From the trailing mail I get to understand students in schools here,
>  are not privy to XOs yet. While, a lot of other countries have rather
>  had their share of small/ big deployments and pilots already. The G1G1
>  program the first year had created huge backlog of pending shipments
>  which took several months to clear, while the second time around OLPC
>  was much better prepared with Amazom dealing with global
>  sales/shipping. And over the last few months there have been huge
>  orders from African and South American countries, some of which I
>  believe are yet to be dispersed.
>
>  Besides, is there an ongoing official / govt supported pilot in the
>  country? Is there one planned for the near future? But I guess one
>  positive way to look at it is that, it might be worth the wait after
>  all.. and order the next Gen XO, which should shortly be available.
>  The specs and features are much better and at half the price then the
>  current one, with 4GB NandFlash and 1MB mem if the reports are to be
>  believed.
>
>  You might want to check:
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specification_1.5
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-2
>
>  Guess I'd love to hear about any deployment (planned/ ongoing) in the
>  country and see how I could contribute while am there.
>
>  Cheers,
>
> Dev Mohanty
>