Nice find. I decided to use a tag cloud. That gets around the nonstandard place names and it gives a relative idea without listing numbers that we know are out of date.<br><br><a href="http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/word-cloud-of-olpc-xo-deployments">http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/word-cloud-of-olpc-xo-deployments</a><br>
<br>Thanks<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Xander Pirdy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xander.pirdy@gmail.com">xander.pirdy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Caroline- <br>I took a look at manyeyes (great site btw), and it looks like they already have a dataset on olpc deployments: <a href="http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/olpc-deployments-in-the-world/versions/1" target="_blank">http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/olpc-deployments-in-the-world/versions/1</a>, though the data would have to be modified to do on a country by country basis (it has trouble understanding Birmingham AL for instance because it should really be labeled as part of the United States Deployment), though it wouldn't take much editing to get this to work. If anyone has any idea on reliable sources to verify these numbers I wouldn't mind putting a bit of extra time into correcting it and finishing the visualization as I think that it is something important.<br>
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-Xander</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Caroline Meeks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com" target="_blank">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Thanks everyone for the feedback and typos.<br><br>If anyone does get good data on deployments I suggest checking out Manyeyes to make the map.<br><br>Thanks!<div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yamaplos@gmail.com" target="_blank">yamaplos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Bolivia<br>
<ul>
<li>100 machines purchased by the SOBOCE foundation, maybe 20 or less
are still operational in a school in Viacha (despite our best efforts,
they don't seem willing to accept help)<br>
</li>
<li>an indeterminate number brought and given away by Marcelo Claure,
CEO of Brightstar, mostly to kids in the soccer team he owns and in
raffles during games his team plays.<br>
</li>
<li>25 XOs in assorted state of repair, through OLPC Repair Centers,
mostly in the hands of local development / research / localization
people connected with SCELinux and OLE Bolivia that I managed to get
through customs on several trips. Most of those used for lobbying and
grassroots work by the valiant Bolivian volunteers come from this lot,
and maybe the ones with the biggest impact so far in gaining some
government goodwill despite. As they were repaired, several of these
also made it to the Manuela Gandarillas Center for the blind. </li>
<li>Apparently maybe 5 to 20 more have arrived through different
independent Contributor Program requests I have no more detailed info
on.</li>
<li>12 machines from individual donors, currently in a La Paz city
orphanage, through OLE Bolivia. 10 more from the same origin in my
closet here in Austin, waiting for the next trip and whether I am
foolish enough to brave customs again (last time it was messy, wish me
luck)<br>
</li>
<li>an indeterminate number given away to assorted poo bahs including
the President by Claure, Arboleda and others, some of them dating back
to B1 models</li>
<li>Hope in a 2-year delayed 200-XO deploy with help from a Danish
NGO.<br>
</li>
</ul>
Dominican Republic<br>
<ul>
<li>apparently 2.000 units were given away to kids by President
Lionel at some public function. No further anything is known of this,
except that apparently they were part of maybe 3.000 that came as gifts
from Carlos Slim of Mexico when Slim was apparently handing out 3.000
lots all over Central America and the Caribbean. Note that Lionel was
very connected with NN early on (maybe even an MIT alumn?), and some
very, very early prototypes were given to Dominican researchers (we had
BIG hopes in the DR being one of the first places to really take off)</li>
</ul>
OT, enjoy this comic<br>
<a href="http://www.juanelo.cl/tiras/Juanelo1187.png" target="_blank">http://www.juanelo.cl/tiras/Juanelo1187.png</a>
<br>
<br>
- Juanelo! I am so angry with you!
<br>
- Why is that, Mr. Minister?
<br>
<br>
- You made me go through such an embarrassing situation!
<br>
You remember those notebooks I asked you get bids on?
<br>
- yeah...
<br>
<br>
- when we presented them as gifts to those schoolchildren, they found
out they were made out of sticks! I was like Mister Ridiculous!
<br>
<br>
- ....
<br>
<br>
- so, what? Next time you'd rather I prioritize quality over price?
<br>
<br>
<br>
(what really gets me <span title=":-("><span>:-(</span></span>
is that Juanelo, from Chile, obviously sees computers as being
presented as a "gift" by the Minister and other authorities to the
children <span title=":-("><span>:-(</span></span>
)
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On 04/08/2010 11:45 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
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<pre>Hi Caroline,
this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones
that ever have been done on Sugar!
While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current
one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the
list of countries with OLPC projects in one form or another (@everyone,
please let me know if this needs to be updated!):
Afghanistan
Austria
Bhutan
Brazil
Cambodia
China
Colombia
Ethiopia
Ghana
Haiti
India
Iraq
Kazakhstan
Lebanon
Mali
Mexico
Mongolia
Mozambique
Nepal
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Niue
Pakistan
Palestine
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Russia
Rwanda
Senegal
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Thailand
United States
Uruguay
Vietnam
Cheers,
Christoph
Am 08.04.2010 04:53, schrieb Caroline Meeks:
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<pre>I am giving a presentation at FOSS VT on Friday, anything anyone wants
me to mention or request to an audience of teachers and school IT people?
The draft of my presentation is here: <a href="http://prezi.com/ffn2vdg0ylcr/" target="_blank">http://prezi.com/ffn2vdg0ylcr/</a>
I'd love a map that helps me talk about the OLPC deployments if anyone
has done one.
Has anyone done any updates or additional activities slides?
Thanks!
Caroline
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