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

[Tony Anderson]

Go! I think only XO-4 are in production (although Rwanda is using the 
XO-1.75 so that may also be available).

Tony

On 04/09/2016 11:57 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Hi
>
> 10,000. Okay. How about this?
>
> I suppose a batch of 10,000 costs $200 each from OLPC, that's a $2M 
> capital outlay.
>
> That's just 10 schools with 4 year groups each, at 250 laptops per 
> year group.
>
> Finding ten ritzy private primary schools in the US where the parents 
> can drop $400 in a hat shouldn't be too hard for a savvy sales person. 
> Give them a $25k retainer and a $225k upside. If they close the dozen 
> schools, put $500k into the after sales support, $1M aside for the 
> next batch, and $250k for the sales person's take in the next round.
>
> Run the next round in the UK, Canada, or Germany. Then there's the $2M 
> in the Sugar Labs account for a side-round that be sold in lots of 20 
> for any classroom anywhere in the world.
>
> Cheers
> Dave
>