Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMF Staff] [press] CNN on india's $35 laptop

2010-07-25 Thread Kul Takanao Wadhwa
Arun is right that the Indian goverment typically gets ahead of themselves where they release news far before they are ready to deliver on what they say that can/will do. I believe that are still sourcing these products from China/Taiwan so it will still take them time to get the price down to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMF Staff] [press] CNN on india's $35 laptop

2010-07-23 Thread Arun Ram
Barry, Surely getting Wikipedia on this device would be a great project, especially if we have Indian language content in addition to English. That would be a clincher. As we speak the details about this device seem sketchy. We will all need to check through contacts to see if anyone has contac

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMF Staff] [press] CNN on india's $35 laptop

2010-07-23 Thread theo10011
Hello Everyone In response to Mr. Newstead's mail there are a couple of things I wanted to say, First It's an interesting prospect but I do want to point out that its only a prototype developed in response to OLPC, so they've been working on this for more than a couple of years. Press releases lik