<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 7:07 AM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":6g" class="a3s aXjCH m15548290d5317547">individual units regularly<br>
clear $100 each</div></blockquote></div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If these are functioning units, I support the idea, but perhaps what should be done is to try to keep them together in a single microdeployment by partnering with another nonprofit, a sponsor, or a university. For example a college could do a project for a local elementary school. Sales logistics for individual shipments are difficult, with no benefit to SL. Kept together, we could study the XO's place in the 2016 context, showing how the software has evolved.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">OLPC France has managed the Nosy Komba, Madagascar microdeployment for years now in partnership with other NGOs and the learnings have been fantastic.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">These units have US keyboards and would be suited to a deployment there - it could be problematic to deploy them elsewhere.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Sean<br><br></div></div>