morganya

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by morganya 5y ago
Author here - I agree FWIW! :)
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by morganya 5y ago
They initially targeted governments in the Global South and excluded North America, Europe, and other high-income countries (see http://www.olpcnews.com/use_cases/education/childrens_machin... for a summary of the
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by morganya 5y ago
Even NGOs were initially blown off - Negroponte initially said they'd only sell lots of no less than one million to governments directly. But when they didn't get any firm takers in the first couple of years of the project, they s
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by morganya 5y ago
But two really significant issues are maintenance and repair - those are, unfortunately, very expensive problems to address!
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by morganya 5y ago
Sorry! I definitely didn't factor in a HN frontpage link into my quota expectations with my webhost. There's an only-somewhat-broken version here: https://web.archive.org/web/20211221041947/https:/&#
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by morganya 5y ago
Interestingly, in Paraguay the kids who did use their XOs much at all generally installed another windowing system. There was a nice easy package that even not-very-tech-savvy kids could install, I think put up by a hacker group in Uruguay
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by morganya 5y ago
As with many projects, there was quite a range in acceptance/uptake! Language was certainly a factor (more rural schools - which were also poorer on average - tended to be more Guarani-centric), but I would say that based on my observa
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by morganya 5y ago
Hi everyone - I'm the author. Apologies that my website host hasn't been able to handle the traffic generated by this - I'm working on fixing that. But I'd be happy to answer questions! I'll be able to check back in