User talk:Brianmc
Welcome to the One Laptop per Child wiki. Please make yourself at home; read through the Table of Contents and FAQ, and take a look around. If you need a general wiki-tutorial, Wikieducator has some excellent ones.
Some possible pages of interest:
- Pictures, Educators
- Ask OLPC a Question
- OS images for emulation
- Rollout and community building ideas
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Some open tasks:
- Edit Patrol: recent changes, new pages
- General Cleanup: Category:cleanup
- Expand Articles: Category:stub
- Translation: Localization
Feel free to leave me a note on my talk page if you have further questions or need help finding your way around.
Cheers, Sj
interviews
Thanks for the interest. Why don't you post some questions here on the wiki, and I'll see if Nicholas can answer them. This is a crazy month... if he is busy and you are under deadline, Walter or I may be able to answer them as well. Sj talk 07:11, 2 November 2007 (EDT)
- Thanks! --Brianmc 07:13, 2 November 2007 (EDT)
Nicholas Negroponte - Questions about OLPC
- A lot of news sites have made a big deal about OLPC's "$100 laptop" actually being closer to $200 in price. From reading the trial project runs that have details posted it appears still worthwhile.
- Firstly, are there any extra features that spending more has brought to the laptop?
- Have economies of scale played against you in keeping the laptop cheap?
- What are your opinions on the rumours that Microsoft is trying to get a version of Windows running on the OLPC?
- Have any other parties expressed an interest in running something other than Linux on XO machines?
- I assume Microsoft got some machines to try this out, has anyone else got a sneak preview?
- I understand your brother has helped out somewhat - with well placed words.
- What influence has he had on getting decision-makers onboard?
- Who else would you name as outspoken supporters that are influential?
--Brianmc 08:28, 2 November 2007 (EDT)
