[om-council] An opportunity for us with low-income people? (was Re: i586)

Jean-Claude Vanier jclvanier at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 12:20:34 EDT 2016


That's exciting. Poor people includes schools and educational area.
If we are able to build a serious documentation file we could dream
about some grants from some organization (to be determined).

2016-04-26 17:47 GMT+02:00 Alexander Stefanov-Khryukin <nobodydead at gmail.com>:
> agreed
>
> 2016-04-26 15:46 GMT+00:00 Tomasz Gajc <tpgxyz at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Fact is that amount of people using 5$ or 9$ systems on sigle chip are
>> growing while amount of people using ix86 is decreasing.
>> We must follow a trend and support those platforms which has future.
>>
>> 2016-04-25 14:02 GMT+02:00 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero at lindev.ch>:
>>>
>>> On 2016-04-25 12:22, Tomasz Gajc wrote:
>>>
>>>> People with low income, buys Raspberry Pi 0,1 or 2
>>>>
>>>> See only 5$ for a working computer
>>>> http://www.microcenter.com/product/457746/Raspberry_Pi_Zero
>>>
>>>
>>> Or this one for $9
>>> http://getchip.com/pages/chip
>>>
>>> There may actually be an opportunity for us in those kinds of devices.
>>>
>>> The reality right now is that those boards are perfect computers for
>>> low-income people - they get essentially all they need from a computer
>>> (except the display, keyboard and mouse) at a price even the poorest can
>>> afford -- but at the same time, they have no idea about it because the
>>> computer shops they go into won't tell them because they want to make big
>>> $$$ selling a Microsoft box.
>>> Instead of the low-income people, the guys ending up buying those
>>> less-than-$10 full computers are high-income tech people who want to have
>>> fun and do crazy things with them.
>>>
>>> They also seem to be marketed way more for this type of use than as a
>>> computer for low income people (obviously - people working on them are just
>>> like us, they know how the tech world ticks, but they have not necessarily
>>> even met a really poor person in their lives).
>>>
>>> If we can get OMLx to work well on one of those (I have a C.H.I.P.
>>> prototype, so can look into it a bit when Lx3 is done), there may be an
>>> opportunity to put it into a super-cheap but acceptable case, bundle with a
>>> cheap but ok keyboard and mouse (and possibly display, but that may be
>>> optional because most poor people have a TV they could use as output device)
>>> and just market it as a complete computer for those who can't afford to or
>>> don't want to shell out hundreds of $$$.
>>>
>>> One concern is that they're low on memory (Pi 0 and C.H.I.P. are both
>>> limited to 512 MB RAM, not sure if they can run that many useful things even
>>> on top of LXQt).
>>> But there's some options that are much better and still quite affordable
>>> (e.g. Pi 3, HiKey, DragonBoard 410c). And all of them are marketed towards
>>> tech people, not so much poor people in need of a computer.
>>>
>>> So here's a question for the marketing team -- can we reach that group,
>>> or groups that want to help them? (Let's assume logistics are sorted out, I
>>> have "access" to people who are skilled enough to put a board into a case,
>>> put in an SD card, verify it boots, and mail it anywhere in the world.)
>>>
>>> ttyl
>>> bero
>>
>>
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