I'm going to take a flier here...<br><br>I live in Guatemala and could try to organize a rural test site here. More usability data would be the least of the outcomes. <br><br>This is obviously not a simple task. Looking at the "give many" numbers (>100 XOs @ $299; >1000 @ $249; >10,000 @ $199) these numbers are over my horizon. I know that if I go to local rotary clubs and other such small-scale funding sources, it will be more than 3 times easier to get arount $10,000 (50 laptops @ $199 each) than $30,000 (100 laptops @ $299). Is there any way those "give many" numbers could have 3rd world pricing/volumes? (On the other hand, I also plan to try to get XOs adopted by a wealthy private school here; for them, current prices would be fine and the issue is speedy delivery. You'd have to define "3rd world" not just by country but by target population.)<br> <br>I understand that devel and sugar may not be the right places to ask this question, but I don't really know where the right place is.<br><br>Jameson<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@tomeuvizoso.net">tomeu@tomeuvizoso.net</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Patrick Dubroy <<a href="mailto:pdubroy@gmail.com">pdubroy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> >  If there's one conclusion we can make here, it's that we could do a<br> >  better job in coordinating our usability efforts. In the next few<br> >  days, I'll try to set up a central place on the wiki that can use to<br> >  do this. Anyone else who is interested in this can feel free to do so,<br> >  of simply get in touch with me to let me know you're interested.<br> <br> </div>Thank you very much, the developers have no means to organize such<br> things, so the only way I see is the community stepping up and<br> organizing themselves.<br> <br> I have heard discussions inside OLPC about the need of using usability<br> testing in order to gather a better understanding of how the UI<br> decisions work when a kid is finally put in front of Sugar. I think<br> we'll see at some point OLPC resources dedicated to this task, but I<br> don't think it's wise to wait for that to happen.<br> <br> In my opinion, things would work better if an OLPC employee/contractor<br> is later integrated into an existing wider community effort for<br> usability improvement, rather than people waiting for things to happen<br> from OLPC.<br> <br> Thanks again,<br> <font color="#888888"><br> Tomeu<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________<br> Sugar mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Sugar@lists.laptop.org">Sugar@lists.laptop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>