Grassroots meetings/November 29, 2008

notes

• "selling something now is signficant" (WdB)

• goal: talk to press in countries as much as possible => consistency of media message
  • da truth: "we are trying to make this happen and we're doing our very best, but admittedly there are some big challenges"
  • focus on the "give" part
  • coordinated "give" message on grassroots Web sites and also olpceu.org

• European Give Many details (to-be-finalized)

  WdB will concentrate on Give Many this week

  100+ XOs @ ~€20,000 includes invitation for 2 people to come to quarterly workshops at 1CC

  1000+ XOs @ similar unit cost includes extras, such as invitation to country where units are deployed

• Give Many outreach: directly contact CSR people at companies (OLPC EU will do that)

(WdB in particular thinking about Mali, Liberia, Cuba)

• tax-exemption

  list of tax-exempt countries, if it's done properly: Begium, US, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, Netherlands

  still waiting for: UK, Poland

  missing Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria

  need charity in each country

G1G1

• shipping and repair shouldn't be handled by the same company

  Amazon.fr and Amazon.de should be engaged

  limited quantity this winter

• G1G1 Europe details:
  • G1G1 2008 in the US used as the standard for a broad G1G1EU
  • start with an initial set of XOs for early delivery

    sent to Brussels office where power-adapters, translated 4-page flyer and grassroots printout to be added by Adam et al. (details need to be finalized)

    focus on "Give" - being able to contribute to this awesome project (see media message above)

    G1G1 as one way to do it

    list of projects and groups to contribute to

    fun idea: give every 1000 group a "red" one ;-)

    send people to the OLPC France Repair Center for repairs and spare parts

    to work out in the mid- to long-term -- Amazon store languages, paying via local bank accounts, details on tax exemption, power-adapters, keyboards, warranties.

• future meetings: directly before or after FOSDEM 2009 in Brussels (Feb. 7/8) was discussed.

  meeting at 25C3 already in the works; tmplab and some olpc-at folks, and sj / mako / mika / dogi will be there.

  see ongoing thread on IAEP mailing-list for related information

Web front-ends

• we need to have a localized web front page for France and Germany with a link to Amazon UK and to simply Give (prototype including)
  • this page could be hosted by Amazon.com or by OLPC Europe
• Lionel - working on this web page should be done very quickly. Thanks to Walter, we had a first contact with Fondation de France to mount the "Give One" link.

About the repair process:

• One another European Repair Center exist: http://martenvijn.nl/trac/wiki/olpc-nl . Depending of the place where the XO come from, it could be interesting to use it. More: Marten repairs all sort of thing as a full time job, not OLPC France :-)
• What about the delivery cost from the customer to the repair center and from the repair center to the customer ? It should be clear this the customer should pay for both and for the spare part price...