RE: [DDN] More info on the MIT/Quanta laptop partnership

2005-12-15 Thread Terry King
At 10:07 PM 12/14/2005 +, Cindy wrote: WSIS announcement of the One Computer per child was on November 18 (am I right?). Today is 14 December. And with less than 30 days ... the Cambridge, Massachusetts-The One Laptop per Child NGO is able to send out invitations, accept bids, evaluates,

Re: [DDN] More info on the MIT/Quanta laptop partnership

2005-12-15 Thread Andy Carvin
Quanta was discussed as a vendor for months; people were talking about it when Negroponte spoke at the MIT emerging technology conference in September. I think it's more than time to move this discussion off-list; for those of you wishing to discuss this further, I'd suggest you create a disc

Re: [DDN] More info on the MIT/Quanta laptop partnership

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Mondesire
"...design, manufacture, and distribute laptops that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education. The laptops will be sold to governments and issued to children by schools on a basis of one laptop per child. So now that

RE: [DDN] More info on the MIT/Quanta laptop partnership

2005-12-15 Thread Cindy Lemcke-Hoong
> With dedication to technological innovation and education, Chairman > Barry Lam launched a new US $200 million R&D center, Quanta R&D Complex > (QRDC), in Taiwan. The facility, which opened in Q3 of 2005, has 2.2 million > square feet of floor space, and the capacity to house up to 7,000 en

RE: [DDN] More info on the MIT/Quanta laptop partnership

2005-12-14 Thread Executive Director
Quanta has a good name in white book and OEM notebooks and I am sending this from one I built myself. Mike Michael F. Pitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Carvin Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:54 PM To: The