[OLPC-Philippines] OLPC-Philippines Digest, Vol 16, Issue 4

[Cherry Withers]

Hi Jerome,

How do I get to the grassroots list?

I guess this is the whole point of my organizational questions in the
beginning. I know we're still at a point where we're trying to "spread the
word", but I think we have to do things in parallel to this. One of the
things that stopped me from participating in the G1G1 promo was that there's
no option of giving the laptop directly to the OLPC-Philippines cause. I
have fielded questions on this as well. Some people can not give the full
$199 for a laptop but they can contribute a small amount and they don't know
where to do this so that OLPC-Philippines would benefit. The dilemma is our
group only still exists by name not a legal entity so there's no way to put
these small amounts into our own "pot" (people who would donate from US
would also want to have the added tax incentive of donating) .

I know that the current thinking is for us to find a Non-profit NGO
benefactor, but why not have our own group and partner with multiple ones?
If we have our own legal organization, sub-groups can do fundraisings to
benefit one pot. This also gives us some leeway in choosing the
hardware/etc. and not depend on OLPC solely.

Just my two cents. I'm sure there are a lot of questions that I don't have
the answers to but I would like to start the conversation.

Cheers,
Cherry



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> It seems likely that the Give Many program is or will be canned and
> OLPC will focus again on large deployments. If you check the OLPC
> website, it doesn't have that info anymore. You can still donate up to
> 100 laptops via Amazon but where they get deployed, is probably in
> OLPC's discretion. So how this affects grassroots? Lots. Most if not
> all grassroots deployments used the Give Many program to get XO
> laptops. Although on the other hand, there is no official announcement
> yet.
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> There is a discussion thread about this on the grassroots list.
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