Another G1G1 angle: <br><br>The G1G1 campaign model works for funneling XOs to OLPC developing nation partners and is extended indefinitely:<br>
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There is nothing stopping wealthy individuals(or organizations) from
purchasing G1G1 units, donating one to the developing world and
donating the other to a US individual or institution(with 2 tax
deductions).<br>
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It would also be very cool if a wealthy US kid getting a G1G1 machine
knew something about where the other one went. This is the model used
for "adopt a poor child in the third world" charity drives. Think
about the US kid being able to communicate with his counterpart in the
developing world over the internet --- e.g. OLPC PenPal and maybe an
OLPC facebook.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Walter Bender</b> <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Please don't confuse the Give 1 Get 1 campaign--whose primary purpose<br>is to raise money for distributing laptops to children in need--with<br>our efforts to reach children in the US (outside of 128). We are<br>addressing that need through the same mechanisms we are using
<br>elsewhere: through school systems, NGOs, etc. What we are not doing is<br>selling laptops retail.<br><br>-walter<br><br>On 10/19/07, Albert Cahalan <<a href="mailto:acahalan@gmail.com">acahalan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<br>> Mike C. Fletcher writes:<br>><br>> > Official word from 1CC is that this change is not going to be<br>> > possible in the short-term. We cannot implement these changes<br>> > for the first run this late in the process. Which means the
<br>> > first run of G1G1 laptops are likely going to have regular<br>> > colouration. We will have to rely on other processes to<br>> > reduce/mitigate black-market operations.<br>><br>> Good. The desire for a fully standard XO would have made
<br>> the greymarket problem worse, not better.<br>><br>> There is exactly one way to destroy the grey market:<br>> wash it away with a flood of cheap fully-legit laptops.<br>><br>> People at OLPC seem to forget that Cambridge and the Route 128
<br>> high-tech area in Massachusetts is not representative of the USA.<br>> Simply put, $400 per kid is way too much for a person who is<br>> struggling to pay the rent. There are a lot of people like that.<br>> We have coal miners, truck stop waitresses, fry cooks, and so on.
<br>> The kids have one primary way to get moving in life: the military.<br>> It seems like nobody cares about these kids.<br>><br>> Heck, $400 per kid is too much for **me**, and I'm a well-paid hacker.<br>
> I'm just not going to risk having a kid lose or destroy a $400 object.<br>> (laptop or otherwise)<br>><br>> I think you'll find that cutting the price in half would more<br>> than double the amount of sales, causing many more kids to get
<br>> laptops than they would otherwise. If OLPC is truly interested<br>> in providing kids with laptops, then this is the obvious choice.<br>> Even that is still too expensive for many; the original goal of<br>> a $100 laptop would make a huge difference for kids everywhere.
<br>> If volume production is the key to getting that price down,<br>> then G1G1 is exactly the wrong approach to make it happen.<br>><br>> BTW, school servers are needed too.<br>> _______________________________________________
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