I'm going to take a flier here... I live in Guatemala and could try to organize a rural test site here. More usability data would be the least of the outcomes.
This is obviously not a simple task. Looking at the "give many" numbers (>100 XOs @ $299; >1000 @ $249; >10,000 @ $199) these numbers are over my horizon. I know that if I go to local rotary clubs and other such small-scale funding sources, it will be more than 3 times easier to get arount $10,000 (50 laptops @ $199 each) than $30,000 (100 laptops @ $299). Is there any way those "give many" numbers could have 3rd world pricing/volumes? (On the other hand, I also plan to try to get XOs adopted by a wealthy private school here; for them, current prices would be fine and the issue is speedy delivery. You'd have to define "3rd world" not just by country but by target population.) I understand that devel and sugar may not be the right places to ask this question, but I don't really know where the right place is. Jameson On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Patrick Dubroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If there's one conclusion we can make here, it's that we could do a > > better job in coordinating our usability efforts. In the next few > > days, I'll try to set up a central place on the wiki that can use to > > do this. Anyone else who is interested in this can feel free to do so, > > of simply get in touch with me to let me know you're interested. > > Thank you very much, the developers have no means to organize such > things, so the only way I see is the community stepping up and > organizing themselves. > > I have heard discussions inside OLPC about the need of using usability > testing in order to gather a better understanding of how the UI > decisions work when a kid is finally put in front of Sugar. I think > we'll see at some point OLPC resources dedicated to this task, but I > don't think it's wise to wait for that to happen. > > In my opinion, things would work better if an OLPC employee/contractor > is later integrated into an existing wider community effort for > usability improvement, rather than people waiting for things to happen > from OLPC. > > Thanks again, > > Tomeu > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar >
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