Friends Mark Goldberg, Jon Arnold, and Mark Evans have all written about the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and their current promotion. Basically, if you spend $399 on an OLPC for a child before the end of day November 26, they will ship you a laptop, a $200 tax receipt, AND they will send another to a child in a developing country. It's a good cause. If you can afford the $399, please consider doing it.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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It's a cool initiative, and seems to be very well researched in terms of practical considerations as well. And the XO is pretty nifty piece of kit that I could see my own godson using a bunch.
In case you Googled based on Alec's title (and were brought back to his blog!), the site you need to go to is:
http://laptop.org/
and then the short-track to donating is in smallish text near the top, "give a laptop".
Thanks for the link, Greg. I've edited the post to include it.