Comments on: One Laptop Bag Per Child

By: Jacki

Jacki — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:52:42 +0000

Did anyone find out if laptop.org wants these laptop bags and how to go about donating them?
My company frequently has many gently used, nice bags. We are looking for a home for them.

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By: Stormy Peters

Stormy Peters — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:54:03 +0000

It’s a great idea. You could probably arrange with conferences to have a donation box right next to the conference registration booth. (Any new bag I got would go straight in the box!)

By: Catherine Helzerman

Catherine Helzerman — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:44:01 +0000

Nice idea. Like most other readers of this blog, I’ve got plenty of never used, nice laptop bags that were given to me at various conferences, etc.

By: Gary Barnett

Gary Barnett — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:54:03 +0000

What a great idea. A better idea, indeed, than the OLPC project itself.

By: Alef Arendsen

Alef Arendsen — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:20:03 +0000

Quoting Dave: This suggests that donation of your time or money could be more helpful than some conference swag.

Dave, this would suggest that spending time and money on OLPC itself would also be useless. Imagine what a kid in the desert would do if she walks back from school to home with her OLPC laptop under her arm. She definitely needs my laptop bag! Kidding aside, I really think it’s a good idea.

By: dave shields

dave shields — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:49:26 +0000

On a cautionary note, I once attended a meeting with some experts on disaster relief and I learned that one of their main problems is all the old clothes that people send in that no one needs.

Donors think they’re doing a good thing by sending some old pants halfway round the globe, while those on the other side of the world who survived the earthquake or tsunami have more urgent needs: food, water, electricity, civil order, and so on.

This suggests that donation of your time or money could be more helpful than some conference swag.

By: stephen o'grady

stephen o'grady — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:32:50 +0000

i’m absolutely for this. currently i just give my bags to my Dad, who gives them away on the exchange.

as long as we’re getting them, we might as well turn them over. let me check w/ the OLPC folks on the subject.

By: Mike Dolan

Mike Dolan — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:38:21 +0000

BTW, I have about 15 to donate