[Sigia-l] Salt in Sugar?

[Will Parker]

On Jan 4, 2007, at 6:35 AM, James Melzer wrote:

> Is the intent to patch their way to a decent OS down the road? This
> assumes all of these machines will be online with enough bandwidth to
> accept new a significant new OS patch every few months, right? And
> individual children's access to the internet aside, do any of the
> countries in question have the bandwidth (at the national level) to
> support this kind of activity?

There's a reasonably good run-down of the initial delivery and set-up  
process for OLPCs at:

		http://www.olpcnews.com/implementation/plan/olpc_xo_installers.html

Theoretically, there will be a team of 600 'installers' per country,  
each responsible for:

1) wiring one or more schools with satellite-based Internet access  
(each access point can serve 1000 OLPCs);
2) performing any required setup on the computers to be associated  
with each school
3) spending a month training students and teachers to use the OLPCs.

Per Grand Moff Negroponte, each team of 600 trainers should be able  
to provision and train

		****************************************************
		* One million OLPC users in a one-year period *
		****************************************************

					     Yeah. Uhuh.
				   One MILLLLLYUUN users.
		With a brand-new software and hardware platform.
			In the back country of a developing country.
			       With 600 support personnel.
					       One year.

                Don't forget to multiply by 30 or so countries.

If you believe this is possible, please contact me. We have a  
slightly used war I'd like to sell you.

- Will
Will Parker
wparker at ChannelingDesign.com

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