OLPC: it's real

[Joel Stanley]

This week the first shipment of laptops was received by a country.
While other places have had laptops to use for the past year[1], this
was the first place to receive the final mass production version of
the laptops.

"It's been a bit stunning to see the deployments and hand out the
first machine. I'm not an optimist, and while the OLPC team put all
their blood, sweat and code into this project over the last couple of
years because of the unshaken belief that it's the right thing to do,
it was only while standing in Escuela No. 109 [a school] that I had my
"holy shit" moment. A week in summary, if you will: "now it's real.""

-- Ivan Kristic, OLPC

Have a read of Ivan's blog[2], where he includes lots of pictures of
the deployment in Uruguay.

"About a thousand machines were given out in three days. Another seven
thousand will be given out in Uruguay in the next two weeks, and
another 90 thousand in the coming months. Peru is next: they signed an
order for 260 thousand today."

[1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educators#Some_trials
[2] http://radian.org/notebook/first-deployment