Huh? Its kinda weird that my last mail seems broken up into two parts with some lines missing.. (in the Archive) Can the list admin pls have a look.
On 6/8/09, Dev Mohanty <d...@nepalwireless.net> wrote: > Forgive my ignorance on the current state of affairs in Switzerland w/ > regards to XOs. I have been trying to catch up with the previous posts > in the archive, but then unfortunately most of it is Greek to me (Can > only read/write English and French) > > From the trailing mail I get to understand students in schools here, > are not privy to XOs yet. While, a lot of other countries have rather > had their share of small/ big deployments and pilots already. The G1G1 > program the first year had created huge backlog of pending shipments > which took several months to clear, while the second time around OLPC > was much better prepared with Amazom dealing with global > sales/shipping. And over the last few months there have been huge > orders from African and South American countries, some of which I > believe are yet to be dispersed. > > Besides, is there an ongoing official / govt supported pilot in the > country? Is there one planned for the near future? But I guess one > positive way to look at it is that, it might be worth the wait after > all.. and order the next Gen XO, which should shortly be available. > The specs and features are much better and at half the price then the > current one, with 4GB NandFlash and 1MB mem if the reports are to be > believed. > > You might want to check: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specification_1.5 > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-2 > > Guess I'd love to hear about any deployment (planned/ ongoing) in the > country and see how I could contribute while am there. > > Cheers, > > Dev Mohanty > _______________________________________________ OLPC-ch mailing list OLPC-ch@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-ch http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Switzerland