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Overview
You can help support OLPC's mission by contributing time and knowledge or donating money, or by participating in our annual giving campaigns. For the first two years after mass production, we ran an annual "Give 1, Get 1" campaign where for the price of two XOs you could receive one and donate the cost of one to the foundation.
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Give 1, Get 1 2007
The 2007 Give 1, Get 1 program (or "G1G1") concluded on 31 December 2007. 85,000 people gave a laptop through this program, donations which helped launch deployments in Haiti, Rwanda, Mongolia, Palestine, and Afghanistan.
The poster child for the campaign was from Nigeria, where we launched one of our first pilots in 2006.
G1G1 2007 has archival info on the 2007 program. During the program, participants who donated USD $399 would cover the cost of one laptop to be distributed by OLPC to one of its least-developed partner countries, and would get 1 to keep, for themselves or for a child in their lives. OLPC also has a static Official FAQ(dead link) on this program.
Give 1, Get 1 2008
The 2008 Give 1, Get 1 campaign ran between November 17 and December 31, 2008. You can still visit laptop.org.org/xo to donate a laptop, but you won't receive one. Close to 10,000 people participated in this program.
For more about the program, see G1G1 2008.
Media
Various media for G1G1 campaigns:
- Nigerian girl carrying a laptop on her head (at right)
- There are a number of formats and layouts of that print
- 2008 reprise of the above:
- as a pdf, or as an animated flash
- Also used on limited-run long-sleeve t-shirts
- The 2008 OLPC Brand videos
User communities
Users of the XO have formed many user groups (some even before the 2007 units arrived). See Regional groups.
When you get your XO, follow the "Help using the XO" link in the side navigation under "About the XO".
Discussion
Discussions about giving and G1G1 have been moved to the discussion page at Talk:XO Giving.
Other G1G1 questions
Shipping Confusions
I had some questions about the problems that many G1G1 donors are having with the shipping of their XOs. I posted a question to this wiki earlier today. It was well written and summed up the problems that seem to be surfacing. The question was pulled off the wiki within hours of being posted. (a brief "non-answer" was posted to my questions for about an hour before it was yanked from the wiki. The "non-answer" said only that updated information about shipping would be posted on Monday.) I know that this page for questions was getting messy and needed to be tidied up. But it seems that when you tidied up, you got rid of all the imbarassing questions that reflect the inept handeling of the G1G1 program. I know that this is a program being run by volunteers. I know that the organization's primary mission is to get computers into schools. I know all that. I can imagine that this G1G1 program turned out to be way bigger than they planned for and they are overwhelmed and undermanned to get all the computers out. I can imagine that there is a lot of confusion and disorganization going on. But it would only take a couple of minutes for someone to make a statement to the effect that they are overwhelmed and working as fast as they can. Quit ignoring your donors and answer our questions. Where the heck are our computers? Why are there no tracking numbers? Why are week two donors getting XOs ahead of people (like me) who ordered in the first 2 minutes of day one? Is there any logical way that you are shipping, or is it just totally unorganized? What's going on out there?
