[NTLUG:Discuss] The $100 Laptop

[steve]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:16:38PM -0500, steve wrote:
>> I can recommend checking out the Wiki they put up - there are lot of
>> quite interesting ideas there.
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php/Main_Page
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> I think there should be a campaign to sell these machines into the US
>> domestic market for $300 - the deal being that you buy one for your own
>> use - and two more get donated to needy kids someplace in your name.
>>
>> Even at $300 it would be a great machine to have around and having a
>> large number of geeks owning them would drastically increase the amount
>> of software developed for them.
> 
> I totally agree.  Did you add this suggestion to the laptop.org
> wiki?  (Or is it already there?)

Yeah - it's on

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ask_OLPC_a_Question

...there are a couple of threads there about that.

* 2.3 FUNDING IDEA!
* 2.7 The computer is a really good idea—MAKE US PAY

There is also a Pledge Bank thing about this:

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