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Caracas, Venezuela •• Oct. 15, 2001 •• SolarQuest® iNet News Service ••
It is 2:50 PM when we approach the immense entrance of the remarkable building of Hewlett Packard. Five minutes later were looking downward from the terrace of the top floor, contemplating the scattered buildings of the city of Caracas. We take a few pictures, and suddenly this guy tells us to move into this small meeting room that has a round table in the middle with four chairs; this guy is the one in charge of public relations.Before the meeting starts, let me give you a brief introduction about what we were there for and who exactly are we in all this. Well let's start with Ron Swenson, a very important figure in all this. Ron is one of the owners of a company called Solarquest; this is a company that provides a very recent technology based on a virtual school house run on solar panels. This technology can be established in remote parts of the globe, in this case, Venezuela. Why Venezuela? Because Ron meets a guy named Manuel Matheus, an investigator who is looking for the exact thing that Ron can provide. When Manuel and Ron meet a whole new world opens. Now it's not about one telecentro -- it's about 100 telecentros and they go to Hewlett Packard so they can provide the hardware.
Well, then we start talking and they gave me the camera and I take two or three pictures of the three of them. Very briefly speaking, the meeting was about SolarQuest giving Hewlett Packard this software that they provide so that Hewlett Packard has a better deal in the sales, because many people in Venezuela are interested in buying these systems and services, but Hewlett Packard not only wants to sell the computers, they want to sell the whole thing. So one of the things that is being established as you read this is bringing a model and building it in Caracas so all the interested people can see it and understand it.
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