One Laptop Per Child pledge

[Bill McGonigle]

There's a pledge going on here for folks who want to pledge $300 to buy 
a "$100" OLPC laptop:

   http://www.pledgebank.com/100laptop

The idea is that your $300 purchase funds two additional laptops in the 
field.  Even $300 seems like a pretty good deal on the hardware, though 
it probably won't be your primary machine, but I'd love to load up 
GCompris for my daughter on one.

Nicholas Negroponte is not affiliated with this pledge and is currently 
not interested in private sector funding of the laptops.  This pledge 
is also somewhat of an attempt to prove that there's an alternative to 
big-government funding for this kind of charity work.  If the pledge 
reaches its goal it represents a $20M pot of money for the project 
representing an additional 200,000 laptops in the field.  Granted, it's 
a small dent in the 1.8 billion they need to produce.

Deadline to sign up by: 31st October 2006
1,748 people have signed up, 98252 more needed

More on the project: http://laptop.org

-Bill
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