Thanks for answering the roll call. And now, a question.

[Tom Hoffman]

On 4/18/07, Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
>
> >> What we're missing now is the complimentary push for a big, ambitious
> >> vision (that is simultaneously quite practical) that will catch
> >> people's attention and make them think of free software as something
> >> other than a low-rent alternative.  OLPC's the best chance we're going
> >> to get for that.  It is our big splash.  And I think it is the right
> >> thing, pedagogically and technologically.
> >>
> >> --Tom
> >
> > Being that this initiative is being developed in the US, I sure wish we
> > weren't put on the back burner.  We sure could use the OLPC program in
> > our school, but from what I read that won't be a possibility for a few
> > years.
>
> If you can convince one of the states in the union to pony up for the cash
> to guarantee a million units, I'll bet you could be on the front burner
> pretty quick.  Seriously.

I just wonder if we couldn't get Sugar onto our existing systems
before we try to convince our state governments to buy a million
laptops (and Quanta to sell us a million laptops?)?  It seems like an
easier bar to cross.

--Tom