Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:40:10 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, rmarella@gmail.com Subject: Re: One Laptop Per Child Message-ID: <200711112340.13107.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200711120704.lAC744lR082341@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <20071111195501.46d58539@p4> <200711120704.lAC744lR082341@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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On Sunday 11 November 2007, Olivier Nicole said: > > I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very > > strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is > > offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be > > well invested. YMMV > > > > http://xogiving.org/ > > That is a difficult issue, while this is an opportunity, I doubt > this is the most needed thing to provide education. We are talking > giving laptop to people who do not even have electricity in some > cases... > > Olivier =46rom what I've been reading they are addressing this issue. One way=20 was providing solar power recharging stations. The other was hooking=20 up carousel type playground equipment to a small generator to=20 recharge the laptops. The third was good old WWII vintage hand crank=20 power. I also read that these laptops are optimized for low power=20 usage. I live in Alaska and they have been using the internet for=20 education in rural villiages for many years with much success. I=20 personally think this is a great idea. Too bad they won't all be=20 running FreeBSD :-) =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D-------------
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