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Old 5th December, 2007, 04:29 PM
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Gizmo and I are talking. There may be some difficulties in offering our readers assurances as I didn't receive any type of E-mail recite when I gave. Can any think of a better way we might do this together ?
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Old 5th December, 2007, 04:55 PM
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OK! That's $90.00!

Gizmo when you get the time, (a little kid is waiting for his laptop ya know!)
Could you please set up a Paypal account for "AOA Free Laptops" and post where we can dump some money.":O}
Some sort of signed scanned document to the effect of "I Daniel Edgar, do promise not to spend poor children's laptop money on Playstation 3 games, irrespective of how tempting it is, and how highly said game was rated on IGN"
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Old 5th December, 2007, 05:41 PM
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Not even if I intend to send them along to the poor kids when I'n done with them?

I feel bad about this, I jumped in without considering the difficulties. Sorry.
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Old 5th December, 2007, 05:48 PM
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It's a good thing to get started, if it takes a couple of days to get it sorted out or come up with a new plan it's cool by me.

I just can't see you with a computing farm made of PlaySkool looking laptops..
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Old 5th December, 2007, 08:54 PM
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The fundamental issue boils down to accounting: we need to be able to show a good faith effort to get the money where it belongs. If people are going to be donating money through AOA for the purpose of purchasing laptops, we need to be able to show that the money was in fact sent to OLPC.

We are still trying to sort this out in a satisfactory manner.

Besides, if anyone gets a new video card, PS3, or computing farm out of this, it's gonna be me.
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Old 5th December, 2007, 09:43 PM
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I'll go $60 for an even $150.00.

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The fundamental issue boils down to accounting: we need to be able to show a good faith effort to get the money where it belongs. If people are going to be donating money through AOA for the purpose of purchasing laptops, we need to be able to show that the money was in fact sent to OLPC.

We are still trying to sort this out in a satisfactory manner.

Besides, if anyone gets a new video card, PS3, or computing farm out of this, it's gonna be me.
Damn stright! Time to take your stand!
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I'll go $60 for an even $150.00.

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Then we've almost closed in on another light in the wilderness! Many thanks Ron. I promise! You'll feel the power! LOL!
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Old 5th December, 2007, 10:56 PM
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I'd like to know how this turns out for you Daniel, as I've been contemplating doing something similar.....
Well...Basically, you give the money, then nothing happens! So I just closed my eyes and imagined all sorts of good things that will surly flow from this one action on our part... I guess that has to do it. No brochure, or letter written to sound like a grateful kid or anything. I like to think he or she is to busy e-e-mailing friends to slam MS and Intel and of course sing my praises as the source of all knowledge and Fedora as my handmaiden....":O}

Like I said, What a rush! LOL!
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It's a good thing to get started, if it takes a couple of days to get it sorted out or come up with a new plan it's cool by me.

I just can't see you with a computing farm made of PlaySkool looking laptops..
We buy a mess of them, let them infiltrate the community...instant bot net!! ":O}
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I'll chuck in £20 ($40) when I get my next load of student money.
It is two weeks worth of shopping for me - but it's for a good cause.
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Old 6th December, 2007, 11:44 AM
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Thanks AP. Gizmo is trying to work this out for us. It looks like Paypal can act as our assurance provider, establishing for everyone that funds go where they ought to rather than where it would do me the most good; although, for once, they seem to be one and the same.":O}

As CC suggests a little patience will most likely get us a means of doing what we wish to do...Gizmo's on it! ":O}
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I can provide my quota from January nowards so you have plenty of time.
Just gimme a shout via PM/Email when it's ready.
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Ok, until we come up with a simple click linky or something, you can send PayPal contributions to:

olpc at aoaforums dot com

(trying to avoid getting a whole bunch of crap at that address)

I will provide a monthly status report on what has been contributed and donated to OLPC. This monthly report will be total figures only, not individual donations. If you wish to know if your donation has been received, I will provide that information privately via PM.
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So we can buy one every time we hit $200.00? Very cool. Or as very cool as we are able to make it.":O}
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Old 7th December, 2007, 12:14 PM
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Ok, until we come up with a simple click linky or something, you can send PayPal contributions to:

olpc at aoaforums dot com

(trying to avoid getting a whole bunch of crap at that address)

I will provide a monthly status report on what has been contributed and donated to OLPC. This monthly report will be total figures only, not individual donations. If you wish to know if your donation has been received, I will provide that information privately via PM.
For us dummies, I can't seem to do anything with this URL? ":O}
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