El 22/06/16 a las 07:40, Dave Crossland escribió: > > > On Jun 21, 2016 10:41 AM, "Walter Bender" <walter.ben...@gmail.com > <mailto:walter.ben...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > soliciting a small donation of hardware from Google as a reference > platform. > > Who do we know at google who could help with that? > > Despite google fonts being a client, I don't know anyone there who > could help with this :( > > In any case, which laptop they might give us may not be the best to > recommend. > > There are 2 obvious candidates to me, the new "olpc laptop" available > from olpc inc to USA resident individuals for us$200 plus us$100 > shipping from china, with other countries shipping fees varying; and > the One Education "Infinity" which is us$350 plus shipping from > Taiwan/ Australia. > > The olpc unit ships with sugar and its cheaper so seems a better bet > given both launched around now. > Despite Tony's remarks, I wouldn't dismiss the Raspberry Pi 3 or similar single board computer (est. 80USD for basic kit w/ 8GB SD without screen).
I have an idea to try to deploy them in cultural / community / youth centers and directly to kids. They are cheap enough that parents might afford them, plus possibly they will kill TV time which is goooood.
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