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

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Sat Apr 9 06:31:41 EDT 2016


The XO-4 is in production.

On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 12:51:48PM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
> 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
> >
> 
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