From: Steven Lumos <steven@...>
Date: 2007-12-08T08:08:00+09:00
Subject: [OT] OLPC (was Re: Ruby on OLPC??)

yermej <yermej@gmail.com> writes:
> On Dec 1, 8:34 am, Joshua Cearley <joshua.cearleyNOS...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On 2007-11-29 16:29:56 -0600, Steven Lumos <ste...@lumos.us> said:
>>
>> > So what does OLPC have to do with US schools? I have serious doubts
>> > that we'll ever see them deployed here.
>>
>> That's the part that bothers me. Exporting technology resulting from a
>> US research group to another country exclusively, meaning the schools
>> here have to continue to fight for funding to do anything more than old
>> whiteboards.
>>
>> -JC
>
> Or maybe they will show up in the US:
> http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2007/12/birmingham_city_schools_will_b.html
>
> And for $200/each, same as everywhere else.

Good news.  I see that they have given up the silly policy of only
selling them to countries who agree to give them to all children.

I still object to the idea that if I want my kids to have them, I
should have to lobby some large organization, even now that it has
been lowered to the level of school district instead of US Department
of Education (can you imagine?).

After looking some more, it seems my information was very outdated.
They are now even talking about a retail version sometime in 2008.

Steve