Am 23.02.2011 16:09, schrieb Robert Fadel: > > On Feb 23, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > >> Yes, it's *great* that this note is on that wiki page however I'm mainly >> concerned about the major public interfaces such as >> http://one.laptop.org/map as well as Nicholas and Rodrigo constantly >> refer to "2,100,000 children and teachers have XO laptops" when that is >> quite clearly not the case. >> >> As Caryl will talk about OLPC at the Scale conference this week I wanted >> to use the opportunity to share what I feel are more realistic figures;-) > > Short of polling every deployment - which is done - on the distributed > versus locally warehoused number unless you also want to know the number > of xo's in repair status (how literal are you being about "have"?);
Point taken;-) > I'd > reduce the number by 100-200k; approximately a month's production and an > equivalent number in transit whose time which can take up to 8 weeks for > land-locked countries. The upper-bound might capture local inventories too. Thanks a lot for the clarification, much appreciated Oh, and I guess that also means Quanta is still producing approximately 50,000 XOs per month? > so, about that rwanda number you are quoting...? Should be in that other e-mail I sent (sorry, that one took a little longer as I'm theoretically supposed to get some real work done in this software engineering management class I'm currently sitting in;-) > also curious about the classmate deployment figures you were researching > some time ago, what did you find? I had an interesting lunch earlier in the month in this context and will follow up on this story in early March;-) I'm still absolutely clueless about the total figures but what I do know is that Argentina's Conectar Igualdad program (http://www.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/) will distribute 3 million Classmate PCs in part of its public secondary school system by the end of 2012. By late December approximately half a million of them had supposedly been distributed. In Brazil the presidency created a credit line for regional governments (states & municipalities) to be used for the purchase of up 1.5 million Classmate PCs until mid-2012. The information available online leaves much to be desired but http://www.bndes.gov.br/SiteBNDES/bndes/bndes_pt/Institucional/Apoio_Financeiro/Programas_e_Fundos/prouca.html and http://www.fnde.gov.br/index.php/laptops-educacionais-apresentacao contain a quick overview. Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
