[Olpc-open] [Edu-sig] OLPC G1G1 sales start today

[Mark Harrison]

François Schnell wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2007 1:17 AM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>> This is why we have had a Developers Program for over a year.  It has
>> already sent a few thousand XOs to developers and content workers for
>> free.  You are welcome to apply too.
> 
> Hi, thanks for you reply,
> 
> Yes I know about this program, this is a very good point.
> 
> So, where are the thousands contributions?
> 
> Don't you think """some""" of these XO (because they're rare) are more
> used to show up at mundane parties than for real contributions?
> 
> Isn't it obvious that if OLPC let all passionate people *buy* the
> laptop the project will have much more contributions?

I think that is certainly the case, and that is what is going to happen
with the G1G1 program.

There were a limited number of boxes made during hardware development,
so it's not possible to give one (at whatever cost) to everybody that
wanted one.

But now it's coming available to the early adopters, so we can expect
to see a flourishing new wave of input and creativity applied to the
project.  I signed up for G1G1 yesterday and can't wait to start
trying things out.

(XO shipping people, feel free to put my unit in an earlier shipment than
my coworkers, so that I can walk from office to office saying
"hey, let's mesh... oh, you don't have yours yet, too bad you're
not cool like me!")

Cheers,
Mark

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Mark Harrison
Pixar Animation Studios