S, Thanks for the prod. The old figures were partly because the semantic queries on that page don't update until you edit the [[Deployments]] page to cause the tables to refresh (this saves the wiki from grinding to a halt thanks to having Semantic Forms turned on!), and partly because there was stale data for some deployments. The page should now be up to date as of this summer; stil out of date, but le.
SJ On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:55 AM, S Page <[email protected]> wrote: > (I'm not sure where to send this...) > > In the recent Xconomy Boston interview, NN says > "The precise numbers today are 1.1 million [laptops] out and a back-log > of 400,000-700,000, depending on how you count." > > Those numbers aren't reflected in the table of laptops shipped in > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments from which people built maps of > deployments. The numbers look about the same as they were at the > beginning of 2009 and add up to 557,932 laptops. > > If someone has better numbers for a deployment, they can go to its page, > click [Edit with form] and update its laptops field.[**] The table will > update after a while or if you purge it. > > [**] I understand that when this summary feature first appeared, some > OLPC staff were uncomfortable about sales numbers gaining visibility. > > -- > =S Page > _______________________________________________ > Grassroots mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots >
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