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Get your OLPC Stamps on Thursday Its time to escape talk of bailouts and debates, and delve into a topic we know and love: One laptop Per Child. Why stop there, let's jump into the whole computers in education movement, with an OLPC News Happy Hour tomorrow night in San Francisco.

There were 4 big questions when it was first revealed that Amazon would be running this year's edition of the Give 1 Get 1 program: Europe dressed in OLPC green How much is it going to cost? $399. When will G1G1 v2 start? November 17. Will it come with Windows XP? No.

Filed under: Laptops We knew we'd be seeing a comeback of the Give One, Get One program this year, and now OLPC has confirmed a November 17 date -- just in time for the holidays, how convenient for everyone! We're still not certain on a price, but $399 is quite likely.

Today I found an interesting question from one of our readers in my inbox: If producing an XO costs more than $200 how can a $399 G1G1 v2 donation Give 1, Get 1? The question is based around a piece of information from an InfoWorld article which I myself had previously highlighted in a comment on

Back in May it was announced that the Give 1 Get 1 program would be making a comeback and in June there were indications that it would happen after September 1. Amazon will run with G1G1 Now IDG News Service broke the news earlier today that Amazon will be running this year's Give 1 Get 1 program from late November until possibly the end of December.

So there's an ongoing tension between small projects interested in using OLPCs and the guys over at 1CC who are too busy to really deal with a ton of small orders, regardless of the value of the particular cause, the built-in support it may already have, or any other warm, fuzzy reason.

Tucked away in Deepshikha Monga's short article, "OLPC looks to World Bank for India funding" is a XO laptop bombshell: Rocking CDMA XO Laptops?!Later this year, the XO laptops are expected to hit the retail stores.

While surfing over on wiki.laptop.org earlier today I noticed that an interesting update regarding Give 1 Get 1: Can't stand no more G1G1 sadness Important information about the first G1G1: The deadline for activation of the T-Mobile accounts is June 30th.

One Laptop Per Child has finally released Update 1 for Sugar, which is based on build 703, itself released in March. Update 1 - brilliant? But before XO laptop users in North America get too exited, this Sugar build still needs a G1G1-friendly one-step installation tool.

It seems that One Laptop Per Child is going to ramp up the Give One Get One program again this fall, Nicholas Negroponte mentioned an August or September start date. But I have a serious question to ask of the olpc community: Is G1G1 worth it, again?Would you G1G1 again after all the headaches of