[K12OSN] AMD offers $250, 000 prize to help Third World get online

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

Umm...shouldn't that award go to Jim McQuillan?  That's exactly what
he's done!  It's called LTSP!

Perhaps he and Eric Harrison should share it, due to Eric's turnkey
packaging of it.

--TP
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Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> Just noticed this on the Edubuntu list. From the ArsTechnicia Article:
>
> AMD offers $250,000 prize to help Third World get online
>
> AMD plans to award a $250,000 prize to whoever can design a computer
> lab that can be adapted and implemented in third-world countries. The
> company, along with Architecture for Humanity's Cameron Sinclair,
> introduced the new Open Architecture Prize last week at TED 2007 in
> Monterey, California. The prize, which AMD is lauding as the largest
> prize in the field of architecture, will be handed out annually and
> will be part of a multi-year program.
>
> AMD Press Release Link:
> http://50x15.amd.com/en-us/news_release_item.aspx?iid=54
>
> ArsTechnica Article:
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070312-amd-offers-250k-prize-to-help-
>
> third-world-get-online.html
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