Belgium Grouped Order of Laptops
Intro Belgium Grouped Order of Laptops
The group order is minimum of one 40 foot container, containing 6.000 XO laptops. The group order will be passed to OLPC in following steps:
- A group takes the initiative to write the conditions for the order, e.g. where the container will be sent to and where the people can come collect their XO. Shipping companies who own the container that will be used to ship the 6.000 XO's, allow the container to stay for about 4 days on 1 site, where you can allow people to come collect their XO. During these 4 days, the group makes sure someone is on site to allow people to come collect their XO.
- People will be invited to list the number of XO's they want to order and their contact details
- Once the number of 6.000 candidate buyers is attaigned, the group will take the initiative to open an account to gather all the money from the candidate buyers. The payment details serve as signature.
- The request for an order is sent to OLPC and after approval the money is transferred. If the order is not honored by OLPC, the organisation will communicate this to the candidate buyers and eventually return their money or look to fulfill the additional conditions imposed by OLPC.
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OLPC is a registered not for profit supporting an Open Community Project, aligning with MDG2. It thrives on the free energy, competences, etc. that individuals and organizations from all over the planet can make available for this purpose. In the earlier years, the not for profit OLPC had just the combination of paid staff and volunteers that could manage to explain the value of the XO in attaigning MDG2 along Agenda21 to people and especially the Ministers of Education and alike of developing countries where the XO's are to add most value in kids and families'lives. There were no resources to pick up phonecalls from people asking if they could buy one laptop and deal with the whole customer aftersales people would expect. Anno 2011, now that a couple of countries have a 100% roll out of XO's with all their kids, the team at OLPC that is dealing with orders and shipping and organisation seem ready to accept orders of ORGANIZED individuals that group themselves and place 1 GROUP ORDER of immediately and minimum 1 container of XO's. A 20 foot container contains 3.000 XO laptops and a 40' container 6.000.
DO NOT CALL OLPC FOR ANY QUESTIONS AS THIS IS REGARDED AS YOU DISTRACTING THEM FROM THEIR CORE MISSION, i.e. TAKING IN ORDERS FROM COUNTRIES THAT DID GET IT AND ORDER AS A GOVERNMENT IMMEDIATELY MULTIPLES OF CONTAINER LOADS OF XO'S.
Herewith the options to get an XO:
- Move to another country where there is 100% XO deployment. However much you may regret not being able to order an XO for your own school or kids, rather consider moving to anohter country where citizens did elect a government that agrees that XO's for ALL their kids are a thing to go for, than to start distracting the OLPC dpt that deals with shipping and orders !
- Build capacity around OLPC, MDG2 and Agenda21, in such a way that you can convince the minister of education in your country to buy XO's for all kids in your country. If the minister doesn't want to do that and if you cannot move to another country where there is 100% XO deployment, you will have to organize yourself and build capacity untill you can convince the minister or put your minister of education in place who will place the
- GROUPED ORDER: Make a binding list with people and organisation that engage themselves to order - together - at least 1 container load of XO laptops. A 20 foot container contains 3.000 XO laptops and a 40' container 6.000.
--SvenAERTS 15:13, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
Cost Price and shipping volumes 20 foot container and 40 foot container
213$ Total(2012)= 164€ 209$ Cost FOB(2012) at 10.000 pieces of XO's 4$ Cost Freight/XO (2012) xxx$ Duties and Taxes 20 foot container holds 3.000 pieces = 10 pallets of XO's. Gross Weight: 5,750 KG. Units come in boxes of 5 laptops each. 40 foot container holds 6.000 pieces of XO's.
CONDITIONS
- Where will the container arrive? Brussels exact adress is not yet known. Brussels has a seaharbor, customs transit zone, easily to get there by car, high speed train, possibly people can combine it with a visit to this UNESCO World Heritage town or an EU or High Level event that's relevant to them, e.g. GreenWeek, the EU Sustainable Development Days, the EU Sustainable Energy Week.
- Organisation that takes up final responsability to
- pay OLPC
- find out the right party to unload the container from the shp and pay them
- find out the right party where people can come and pick up their XO from the container.
GROUP ORDER LIST CANDIDATE BUYERS OF AN XO LAPTOP
Login and edit/add in the table below how many XO laptops you order and a link to your page with how we can contact you, evantually other relevant info, etc. If you don't understand how to do this, you can just write it all one after the other, the team that organises all this will make sure to copy/paste it in the proper way so you figure in the list. Update the overall total.
- Nr of XO's you engage yourself to order - FAMILYNAME Firstname link to a page on this wiki with your contact details
| Nr of XO's you engage yourself to order | FirstnameFAMILYNAME link to a page on this wiki with your contact details | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Overall Total = 3 of 6.000 | More info: Group Order Brussels | Notes: 6.000-3 = 5.997 to go. cf. page Group Order Brussels |
| 3 | SvenAERTS | Notes: cf. page SvenAERTS |
| Yr Quantity | Your FirstnameFAMILYNAME | Notes: Your notes, but preferably in your page Your FirstnameFAMILYNAME |
| row 2, cell 1 | row 2, cell 2 | row 2, cell 3 |