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AFIK, the Government of Rwanda annual fiscal year begins July 1.
Some one may have access to the records, but there are probably 1000
XO-1s deployed there. Does any one have an idea of the cost of 1000
32GB SD cards? Perhaps, that could be added to the MinEduc budget.
The cost to deploy the SD cards in Rwanda is, of course, not
negligible.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/08/2016 09:43 AM, Dave Crossland
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<div class="gmail_extra">Hi Adam!</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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?</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">The resilience/repairability
of the XO-1 laptops is the absolutely fascinating
part. Regardless if historians of technology will
look down their noses from the Rich West's / Rich
East's de facto preference for one-upmanship
(throwaway cute gadgets). Or conversely if they
will look back from Poor/Southern Nations' de facto
environmentalism/repair principles -- purposefully
appropriating and re-appropriating a technologies
beyond their intended use.</div>
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<div>I think idea of the extra screws in the lids was a
good one :)</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Generally if the mouse issue
is solved on early XO-1 laptops (where early
2007/2008 touchpads were overly annoyingly erratic)
then these laptops continue to long outlast their
projected 5-year-lifespan -- if the culture of
learning & electricity are real -- not just
adding a USB mouse! I was one of several who did
not believe in 2007 that a 5-year-lifespan was at
all feasible. But I turned out to be completely
wrong. And then some~<br>
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<div>Having played with an XO-1 more over the last weekend
than I did when I got one in 2008, I must say that I think
the interaction with the XO in eBook reader mode seems an
interesting opportunity. A non-pointer based computer
could still have a lot of life in it. </div>
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<div>You later said,</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Repair of keyboards/ears and
occasional screens is of course also an issue when
usage is very physical among those who won't give
kin(esth)etic learning a break, as every librarian for
the last hundred years has known ;-)</div>
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<div>I also wonder what can be done with a XO-1 without
ears, or without keyboards :D</div>
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<div>The 5 year lifespan idea is interesting! </div>
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<div>Later in the thread Tony said,</div>
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style="font-size:12.8px">It will be difficult, but
essential for the community to find people who are
willing to take on the challenge of maintaining and,
where possible, expanding the educational experience
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<div>Okay, sure, but for how many years does this make sense
for XO-1s? I think probably another 10. That is to say,
the actual lifespan of the XO-1 product is not 5 years but
20, that we are now at year 10, and there's another 10
years to go.</div>
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<div>I'm pretty happy with that as an answer to my original
question: "sunset planning" for Sugar on XO-1s means
figuring out a plan for keeping all the XO-1s out there
useful for _something_ for another 10 years. </div>
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<div>This planning has to be done in the context is what is
expected to happen in the next 10 years. RMS has
categorically given up on thinking about what might be
about to happen, and refuses to answer speculative
questions about the future publicly because it is a sure
way to look foolish. But I don't mind looking foolish, so
I'll say that what I think is about to happen in the next
10 years :) </div>
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<div>A lot of the people in the global south are going to
get access to cheap solar electricity, cheap Android
computing devices, and some degree of cheap network
connectivity. </div>
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<div>I think this will happen because, as the rate of profit
continues to fall, then, to try to survive, all state
capitals will seek to create the kind of pervasive mass
surveillance now enjoyed by the richer states; and whereas
the larger asian states have rejected support from western
big-capitalist mass advertisers (great firewall blocks in
China for a while, zero rate stuff recently in India) the
poorer states will welcome them (or their eastern
counterparts.) Anyway, my point is not to rabbit hole on
historical materialist futurology :)</div>
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<div>What about the other XO models? I expect they also
have a 20 year useful life. When were the last big
purchases of XO-4s?</div>
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<div>Are Peru and Uruguay still buying XO-4s for each
year's new school pupils? Given what I can peek at from
relatively recent videos of schools in those countries,
it seems they are not. </div>
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<div>So, another prediction from me that is probably
wrong: OLPC will not produce another hardware design. </div>
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<div>Does anyone know why the "XO Infinity" became the
"Infinity"?</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">As usual the real challenges
are far more social than technical: deliberate
right-sizing of content/activity planning for the
community in question (we are building a more
content-rich version of HaitiOS from Sugar 0.108 and
OLPC OS 13.2.7) while aligning peer-mentoring with
adult-mentoring, and of course pressure from
national testing around Grade 6-or-so in almost
every country. These mammoths-in-the-room epic
challenges keep eternally popping up for a reason
(and sometimes even getting answered!!) Human
Patterns across most all developing world
communities, on all continents. </div>
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<div>I see no problem with national testing. If kids are
well educated, they can pass such tests without much
preparation :) </div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">PS Dave, read through <a
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Reuse_checklist"
target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Reuse_checklist">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Reuse_checklist</a></a>
if you want to do a time-lapse overhaul refurb like
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href="http://youtu.be/daVDrGsaDME" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/daVDrGsaDME</a>
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<div>Great video :) I'll focus on software for now, but this
kind of checklist is awesome :D</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">-- we even got the security
guards involved in helping us out in such physical
repair/upgrades in a restaurant in Haiti less than 2
week ago -- works far better than Miss/Mister
Universe posters I guarantee it :}<br>
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