[Foundation-l] One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia)

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Tue Jun 2 21:13:29 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:59 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/6/2 George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>:
>
> > OLPC is focused on kids.  That's important.  Perhaps a sister program
> > to provide one OLPC or like device per village, with a more adult
> > development / educational / practical hands on skills data set load
> > would be appropriate.
>
>
> http://www.pixelqi.com/ are displaying their first prototypes this
> week at Computex in Taipei. Put one of those in a cheap cheap cheap
> netbook with lotsa flash. Expensive this year, half the price every
> second year following.


Yeah, OLPC without the focus on kids is just a netbook, and there are
already netbooks cheaper than OLPCs.


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