OLPC Extends 'Give One, Get One' Program

In the spirit of the holiday season, the One Laptop Per Child Program (OLPC) is extending its "Give One, Get One" (G1G1) promotion until December 31. The program, which for $400 allows U.S. and Canadian customers to purchase one XO laptop and donate another to a child in a developing country, was scheduled to end today.

OLPC founder and chairman Nicholas Negroponte attributes the promotion's extension to "an outpouring of support from the public" since the OLPC launched the program on November 12. "Because so many people have asked for more time to participate, either individually or in order to organize local and national groups to which they belong, we have decided to extend Give One Get One through the end of this year," Negroponte said. "During this extended period we will solicit input and transition to a program of giving only at the beginning of 2008."

Users have also been pushing for the continued availability of the XO laptop even after the G1G1 promotion's ends. The Web site XOforall was launched to encourage the LPC to continue its XO sales in a "non-limited fashion."

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