OLPC was Re: [FOSE] [jerrywone@gmail.com: Re: [Novalug] My personal FOSE wrap up / tues and wed]

[Chuck Moss]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:15:31AM -0400, Kevin Cole wrote:
>    On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Nick Danger <[1]nick at hackermonkey.com>
>    wrote:
> 
>      I noticed everyone getting tired/flakey by end of each day, but I don't
>      think any of the booth visitors noticed which is awesome. Next year
>      we'll do something fun after the close of show like dinner or at least
>      happy hour or something.
> 
>      I wish I knew how hot those XOs were to be, we could have done a whole
>      booth theme around Linux making things possible or affordable or
>      something and really showcased that aspect. And I'd have done a little
>      more reading and learning. All I could do was point to you guys that
>      owned them and smile since I knew NOTHING.
> 
>    Finally! The XO has made me one of the "cool" people! ;-)
> 
>    However, the down side was having to tell visitors "No, you can't buy one
>    any more.  Only a few of us can be cool people.  You're not going to be
>    cool until OLPC America gets off the ground, or they offer the G1G1
>    program a second time.  But there's an emulator that will allow you to be
>    faux cool." ;-)
> 
>    With any luck, next year people will be able to see it and then order one
>    or more for themselves, their kids, their school, or whomever.

I also have one but had to cancel my booth duty due to client schedules.

I just got mine last month and have not been able to play with it much.  I
would like to get plugged into the organization a bit.  I met with someone
who tried to get 50 OLPCs for a school in Kenya but was turned away at the
time.  I am hoping their is the possibility at some point to get smaller
quantities to targetted locations rather than only large government
purchases.

I am thinking we may need to setup an ma-olpc mailing list on the tux
servers.  :)


Chuck