[Server-devel] [support-gang] How did 262 "abandoned" Haiti XOs cross the road?

Adam Holt holt at laptop.org
Fri Jul 11 20:31:36 EDT 2014


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:12 PM, William Stelzer <wtstelzer at att.net> wrote:

> Awesome post Sora!!
>

Indeed!  We'll even forgive her the very 1st sentence is factually
incorrect (reality: most of those 4 Haitian towns' many deployments began
long before Haiti's January 2010 earthquake :-)

Here are the 2008 public archives for the archeologists/anthropologists
among us, if you're curious where the "$5.1 Million" went, almost exactly
half of which went to purchasing 13,700 XO-1 SKU24 laptops, if I understand
these documents/archives correctly:

   http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=1364380
   http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-haiti/
   http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/kreyol/



>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org>
> *To:* Unleash Kids! <unleashkids at googlegroups.com>; server-devel <
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> *Sent:* Friday, July 11, 2014 12:38 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [support-gang] How did 262 "abandoned" Haiti XOs cross the
> road?
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> And in the grand scheme of things, what in the end has Negroponte
> wrought?  Sora's blog post today gives one incredibly honest answer, live
> from Haiti:
>
>
> LINK FIXED:
> http://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/special-report-thomazeau/
>
>
>
>
>
> Please everyone consider you too leaving your armchair like she did, to
> come join her (age 18) and us (all ages) bringing valuable XO-1 laptops
> back to life for thousands of children in Haiti.  *Barely more than an
> hour from Disney World,* with $59+tax flights to Haiti I've depended on,
> lasting a heck of a lot longer than a single $99+tax day-pass to Disney
> World.  Or would you like to blow an entire year's salary of a Haitian
> teacher on a premium Disney World pass for $754+tax including bonus free
> parking!
>
> You Make The Choice.
>
> We chose learning together, face-to-face.
>
> We need more humble souls to escape the cyberbubble of empty glowing
> rectangles, connecting with realities on the ground, supporting our XO+XS
> volunteer workforce across Haiti.
>
> While none of the team's work above would have been possible without our
> best friends the armchair humanitarians/engineers *paying it forward*
> like George Hunt, Tim Moody, James Cameron, Bill Stelzer, Curt Thompson,
> Nancie Severs, Paul Fox, Richard Smith, Nick Doiron etc ;-)
>
> *Volunteer at UnleashKids.org if you too can help !*
>
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