Forgive my ignorance on the current state of affairs in Switzerland w/ regards to XOs. I have been trying to catch up with the previous posts in the archive, but then unfortunately most of it is Greek to me (Can only read/write English and French)
>From the trailing mail I get to understand students in schools here, are not privy to XOs yet. While, a lot of other countries have rather had their share of small/ big deployments and pilots already. The G1G1 program the first year had created huge backlog of pending shipments which took several months to clear, while the second time around OLPC was much better prepared with Amazom dealing with global sales/shipping. And over the last few months there have been huge orders from African and South American countries, some of which I believe are yet to be dispersed. Besides, is there an ongoing official / govt supported pilot in the country? Is there one planned for the near future? But I guess one positive way to look at it is that, it might be worth the wait after all.. and order the next Gen XO, which should shortly be available. The specs and features are much better and at half the price then the current one, with 4GB NandFlash and 1MB mem if the reports are to be believed. You might want to check: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specification_1.5 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-2 Guess I'd love to hear about any deployment (planned/ ongoing) in the country and see how I could contribute while am there. Cheers, Dev Mohanty On 6/7/09, ElektroMarc <[email protected]> wrote: > The next school year in Switzerland begins without any Laptop's, but > why ? > What's the trouble? Who is the stopper ? > > Even such generous actions like "Give 1 Get 1" works ! > People take part! > (I would, but I don't deal with amazon, they support the OLPC but in > the same time, they want to kill a company in Switzerland just because > somebody "could" be confused with the names of "Amazon" and "Amazee"...) > > So what is missing in Switzerland ? We have the headquarter of Red > Cross (ICRC), a big office of the UN, but we can not handle small > Laptops ? > > I apologise for this rude tone, but after watching the movie "Home" > it's hard tho wait till other's will do something... > > Best regards, > Marc Schaffer > > _______________________________________________ > OLPC-ch mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-ch > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Switzerland > > _______________________________________________ OLPC-ch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-ch http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Switzerland
