[Olpc-europe] Collaborate to reach the 100 minimum order for XO-Touchpad

Sven AERTS svenaerts228 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 26 10:45:03 EDT 2013


Dear All,
I've been on the payroll of OLPC for 2 months for a specific job.
I'm nor an ICT-person, nor am I functioning in the educational sector.  I'm
stunned there is so little knowledge about OLPC in the educational
community and I'm worried about the iPad school and classroom experiments I
read about.
In Flanders, there is a not for profit that received money to go to Asia
and see if there's an alternative to the 110 € graphical calculator that is
compulsory for 12 year olds.  They found something and turned into a
spinout little company that's now distributing these in Flanders.  I went
to the presentation and couldn't believe how some teachers are completely
fanatic about iPads and tablets and don't even know about OLPC.
I can't stand it anymore.  I have a 5 year old and he's going to 1st grade
soon and they will have NO XO's or anything worthwhile.  We don't even have
a sort of OLPC XO-XServer labo/test site where teachers can come, see,
feel, experiment with the XO and learn about the OLPC initiative and
community.
The minimum order for the XO-touchscreen is 100.  I've checked with Giulia
D'AMICO from OLPC and my former colleague.
I've set-up a list where you can put your name : just go to the
http://wiki.laptop.org/ and look for the
 Brussels Harbor Group
Order<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/BRUSSELS_HARBOR_GROUP_ORDER_LIST_CANDIDATE_BUYERS_OF_AN_XO_LAPTOP>
as
this is where I live: Brussels / Antwerp.
I'm also going to start phoning to all the ministries of education in
Europe to ask them if they please want to ask me to prepare a quotation and
plan for them to set-up such an OLPC-labo with 10 XO's, 2 XServers, 20 PV
panels of 10 W, 3 full time ICT people who collaborate in the OLPC projects
and take care of a regional road tour.
Lately, some teenagers in Peru/Uruguay mounted some wheels on their XO's
and transformed it into a robot.  You should have seen the face of the
minister when the pre-programmed XO-robot scurried off to the kitchen, a
bit later came back and presented him a coffee.
And we are supposed to live in the Europe - the Innovation Union (yep
that's the latest from Brussels).  These kids in Peru, Uruguay and many
islands states have these XO's - 100% deployment - since 2008 !  And we are
still not sure if we want to give our kids a 740 € iPad?!  Who are we
kidding?
Looking forward hearing from you all or seeing you at the wiki.

Sincerely,
skype: SvenAERTS
http://www.linkedin.com/in/svenaerts
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