http://radian.org/notebook/sic-transit-gloria-laptopi
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Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:46:36 +0800
From: jidanni
Subject: OLPC: Sic Transit Gloria Laptopi
…there was no one hired to work on deployment while I was at OLPC, with Uruguay’s and Peru’s combined 360,000-laptop rollout in progress. I was parachuted in as the sole OLPC person to deal with Uruguay, and sent to Peru at the last minute. And I’m really good at thinking on my feet, but what the sh*t do I know about deployment? Right around that time, Walter was demoted and theoretically made the “director of deployment,” a position where he directed his expansive team of — himself. Then he left, and get this: now the company has half a million laptops in the wild, with no one even pretending to be officially in charge of deployment. “I quit,” Walter told me on the phone after leaving, “because I can’t continue to work on a lie.”
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How can you have a roll out without leadership?
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I picked it up from RISKS. The current one. So, perhaps so, but maybe not.
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The blog post that quote comes from was made a year and a half ago; the OLPC world is different and less dramatic now – with a routine deployment process and 2-3x as many laptops in the field.
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