[Linux-aus] OLPC Australia technical mailing list

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 29 September 2010 15:32, Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at dhanapalan.com> wrote:
>> We at One Laptop per Child Australia are seeing good progress in our
>> mission to provide improved educational opportunities for 400,000
>> children in remote and regional Australia by 2014. I'd like to invite
>> the local FOSS community to join us in our quest.
>
> Are OLPCs on sale to the public nowadays?  It seems that the "give one get
> one" program has been shut down and there doesn't seem to be any information
> on how one might buy OLPC systems - not even for prospective developers.

I assume you mean XOs - the programme as a whole is called OLPC.

I can only speak for Australia, and XOs are not on sale on an
individual basis here. We are keeping our options open, but right now
a retail channel and associated logistics and support networks would
be a tremendous burden and distraction from our core mission of
providing educational opportunities for children in remote Australia.

There are many ways to contribute without owning the XO hardware. The
Sugar environment runs on any PC, and you can also run the OS in a VM.
I am in the midst of writing a guide for how people can contribute
without access to hardware.

I may be able to arrange a limited number of XOs for select
developers, but most of our supply is currently allocated to children.


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