One Laptop Per Child pledge

[Thomas Charron]

  I pledge at least 100$ to the laptop..  But the kid will probrably be me.

  Heck!  Playing with a 100$ laptop in my livingroom helps a a child read
AND write..  ME!  :-)

  Thomas

On 5/25/06, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
>
> 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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