[Sugar-devel] The future of Sugar on XO-1s

[Tony Anderson]

Hi, Dave

This, of course, is a root problem which we have faced from the 
beginning. OLPC's contract with the manufacturer was build-to-order. 
This means the factory is setup to build XOs based on a minimum build 
order. I think this is about 10,000 units. As a consequence, after G1G1, 
it has never been possible for a sponsor to buy a small quantity. At 
various times, OLPC had a policy to sell a minimum order (e.g. 100). 
There is a website where you can inquire about a direct purchase. I have 
heard reports that the terms are pay in advance with delivery at OLPC's 
best efforts.

I have long dreamed of a sponsor who would buy 10000 XOs and then resell 
them at cost to sponsors of deployments. Had Nicholas Negroponte done 
that at G1G1 time, the outcome of this project would have been much 
different. He, however, was only interested in country-level 
deployments. Even Nepal was not big enough to interest OLPC.

Tony

On 04/09/2016 04:12 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
>
> On 7 April 2016 at 21:43, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com 
> <mailto:dave at lab6.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 1 April 2016 at 01:24, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org
>     <mailto:holt at laptop.org>> wrote:
>
>         In Haiti XO-1s will be dominant across many schools for years
>         and year to come.  Similar to Tony's description, but these
>         typically will be using 32GB SD cards -- thankfully these are
>         incredibly affordable.
>
>
>     What is the typical price the XO-1 units you are prepping for
>     Haiti? Cost of postage + 32Gb SD card + repair (volunteered
>     labor?) + distribution to Haiti?
>
>
> The reason I ask is that it seems to me that sugar labs ought to be 
> offering XO-4s in batches of a million *cough cough* 20+, so that if a 
> group wants to become a nano-deployment, it is straightforward to do 
> so, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#Patent be damned ;)
>
> "It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)", it says, but 
> maybe it should say "It's An Education Project (and get yer edutech 
> laptops that work here!)" ;)
>
>
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