Laptop requests

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Requests for laptops by developers, curators, and generative youth initiatives that haven't yet been able to get machines through the developers program; potential waitlist for future developer machines:

awards for children's projects

Molecular Frontiers Inquiry prize (shuguang zhang)


orgs and larger groups

orgs waiting for responses to their requests:

3 - University of Applied Sciences "FH Joanneum" (via OLPC Austria); for student projects (most likely with a focus on Mesh and networking projects)
4~6 - Knowledge Media Research Center (Tübingen, Germany) (via OLPC Austria); for research projects (with a focus on an intercultural comparison wrt digital literacy, content creation, groupware-platform development)
>6 - OLPC Austria); for various projects such as Mesh testing/development, X0tv and also for presentation and support of other local efforts by students and universities in Vienna
2 - UNIC; for European gropus.
3?- CMU; they still don't have them for their class
1 - CMU ETC; update to B4 for their soccer game
3 - OSU; for a game-dev class.
1 - LoC; can return 1 b2.
1 - Ground Report, to test their streaming video for Darfur
2 - US-Vietnam Foundation needs units to test for E-Learning in Vietnam

small groups

Todd Kelsey - 10 for local tech groups to have coding jams, a local school
50 - for a school/library in boston to use; through g1g1.
5-10 - developing a framework for collaborative activities (homework, classwork, projects, etc.) 
       among school kids and with the participation of local actors working with the kids ( parents, 
       teachers, educators, librarians, associations, etc.). Region : France, urban area.

other testing

1 - Real (testing in-house)
2 - Kennisnet, for demos at large education shows, kidpedia testing
1 - Don Osborn, localization guru, afrophone specialist
1 - Internet Archive (testing by their childrens books / bookreader grp)
1 - Adir Abraham, for media testing

bundle creators and curators, no requests

1 - ICDL update
1 - codeweavers update (wine)
1 - Martin Walker, Wikipedia 1.0 developer
1 - wikihow development team (Travis Derouin)
1 - KsanaForge team, China
1 - Jamendo, music curation
1 - facebook team
1-2 - SecondlLife team [via Kent Quirk?]
1 - Electronic Arts (separate from Don Osborn, for future development)
1 - SW

groups already using machines

1 - BigUniverse, for their picturebook collection
3 - UNIC, in ny and europe
3 - GAMBIT
1 - ETC
1,1- WDL,LoC
2 - C.Ryan

creators and curators

1 - MeshBoard
1 - Sylvain, Jamendo
1 - Domas M?