Chicago area bulk purchase

Chicagoland Bulk XO Purchase

The Illinois Math and Science Academy Chapter is organizing a bulk XO purchase. We are interested in starting some after school and or summer programs through our Kid's Institute department, and are looking to purchase 15-20 computers.

With this said, the only way to purchase XOs is through the give many get many program, and the minimum is 100. While there are others within the IMSA community that are interested, we simply do not have enough to purchase 100.

How Much?

The XOs, when ordered in orders of 100, are $300 a piece.

I am interested, now what?

Please contact Kevin and let him know how many you are interested in. Once he has gathered enough interest, he will contact all that have expressed interest with more information.

Where will the donated XOs go?

Another benefit of the g100g100 program is that the donors get to decide where the donated computers go. If anyone has an suggestions, please include them with your interest e-mail and we will look into it and decide before the final purchase information goes out.

Note: It is not a g100g100 program. My understanding from the Give Many web page is that you can "give" 100 laptops and specify that they go to your local organization, but you can't specify where the "other" 100 laptops go, because there aren't any other laptops. Like the G1G1 program, however, the per-laptop price is in excess of the per-laptop cost, and OLPC decides how the difference is used, not the donor. —Joe 11:03, 22 January 2008 (EST)