On Jun 8, 2006, at 9:43 PM, Eric Martin wrote: > Robert, are programs like yours allowed to purchase things like the > $100 laptop project? > > http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/2006/05/001414.php
Even if I wanted to get one for the group, these laptops are only being sold to governments. From the FAQ[1]: "How will these be marketed? The laptops will be sold to governments and issued to children by schools on a basis of one laptop per child. Initial discussions have been held with China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, Nigeria, and Thailand. An additional, modest allocation of machines will be used to seed developer communities in a number of other countries. A commercial version of the machine will be explored in parallel." On the other hand, it can't hurt to ask. I'd encourage you and anyone else interested to e-mail OLPC[2] or browse/join the mailing list[3]. It seems like an absolutely fantastic project. [1] http://www.laptop.org/faq.en_US.html [2] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [3] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
