FYI, A few weeks ago.. I even saw an article with a picture of a Win XP XO Laptop.. hmmm... oh yeah...
http://gizmodo.com/5045812/amazon-to-sell-olpc-in-november-including-dual+boot-xp-model http://gizmodo.com/5050208/first-windows-xp-olpc-pilot-marks-the-transition-from-the-sugar-ui If only we can find who belongs to "kim-XP" XO Laptop, maybe they can mention the 'scoop' since they seem to be quoted in the article. For for now, looks like a wiki page is being updated as 'official' information is confirmed: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/G1G1_v2_update -iXo On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 15:42, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Update: Some of the computer press has picked up the story. > > But we could be all over the Mainstream Media, including having > Nicholas, Walter, Alan and others on all the talk shows. If they are > willing. Are any of you? This is the one time of year when ordering > something you can't get is a positive. We should aim for something > ridiculous, like a million units. (Although we shouldn't say that to > the media in so many words.) And then we should provide daily tracking > of order numbers and of production lead times, to encourage yet more > people to order as early as possible. > > We should be playing up the connection with the 40th anniversary of > the Dynabook idea, and of Doug Engelbart's Mother of All Demos. I have > been in contact with him and his people, and I know that they are keen > on that. We should be doing T-shirts, mugs, stickers, replica mice, > and all the rest of the merchandising, and getting several books > published. Why anybody at OLPC would want to waste the best marketing > time in the year is utterly beyond me. > > If you don't think my opinion counts, ask Amazon. > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > This is the first time I have heard that G1G1 will start up again on > > Nov 17. As far as I can tell, nobody in the outside world has picked > > up on this yet. > > > > Is this a leak? Is it true? Has there been any outside announcement? > > Since it doesn't show up in Internet news searches, I am certain that > > there was no press release. Should I Slashdot this? > > > > This is a Hell of a way to run a global non-profit. We have one of the > > world's biggest brands, and we do nothing with it. We could be The > > Must-Have Gift for this Holiday season without any advertising > > expense, if we would just let the media have the story. Even with the > > manufacturing delays that we can predict. That's one of the draws for > > the Must-Have Gift of the year. Cabbage Patch died the moment you > > could get one off the shelf. > > > > There is a great deal more I could say about this and other management > > issues, but this is not the place for it. If you want to hear any of > > it, you know where to find me. > > > > But!! I have a better idea. Who wants to fork the PR program, and help > > write an Open Source press release? We'll have to reverse engineer > > most of the content, but I have confidence in our community's > > abilities. > > > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Community News > >> A weekly update of One Laptop per Child September 29, 2008 > > > >> Our appearance outside the Marriott attracted a lot of people to out > >> tables; some of them were as far as from Finland; many of them knew > >> about "those laptops for children" and were asking about the ways to > >> acquire the laptops (we even got questions: are you selling the > >> machines?). So, in addition to conducting our scheduled testing, we also > >> served as "unofficial" OLPC marketing representatives, steering people > > > >> to the Nov 17 opening of the G1G1 event through amazon.com. The time we > > > >> were outside wasn't even the peak lunch time for people to fill that > >> square; just imagine the level of attention, if we were there at the > >> lunch time! > >
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