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Revision as of 16:37, 6 September 2006

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LAPTOP NEWS

1. Jim Gettys reports that on Thursday we released our first integrated software build, bringing together the fruits of months of labor by contributors all over the world—individuals and the teams working at AMD, Marvell, Red Hat, and OLPC.

The release includes:

  • LinuxBIOS;
  • using Linux as a bootloader;
  • the GX framebuffer console device driver;
  • the “AMD” Enterprise X Architecture (EXA) X Window System driver with early
  • support for alpha blending;
  • native Linux support for updating the BIOS flash;
  • JFFS2 file system support for the internal flash;
  • the Marvell wireless driver; and
  • a very early version of the Sugar user-interface framework.

As a result, the A-Test boards can now function as a complete computer system, without need of an external disk or flash key. Our particular thanks to Richard Smith and Ron Minnich of the Linux BIOS project, and Jordan Crouse of AMD for this work.

2. Another software milestone is also in sight: Mark and the team begin working with Marvel this week on the CAFE hardware/software debug. Rapid progress is being made: Mitch Bradley can perform DMA transfers to an SD memory card and Dave Woodhouse has use it to successfully mounted a JFFS file system.

3. As OLPC document format discussions proceed, Ivan Krstić spoke with Chuck Smith at Heilbronn University. Chuck lead a session at the recent WikiSym '06 conference that attempted to provide a standardized alternative document format that could be implemented in all major wiki software. The developers of eight popular wiki engines, among them the one that powers Wikipedia, have agreed to implement support for this new format—dubbed WikiCreole. This format overlaps significantly with the format Ivan is designing for OLPC, so we have decided to make WikiCreole a strict subset of the OLPC document format. Minor changes to both formats have already been incorporated as a result of the collaboration; work continues.

4. Clotilde Fonseca, the executive director of the Omar Dengo Foundation in Costa Rica, re-affirmed their interest and excitement to bring the 2B1 machine to the region. The Foundation in the past few years has begun providing support throughout the region in addition to their almost 20 years of work providing world-class support for computers in schools, as well as using computers for community development, micro-enterprise creation, and support for democracy. Clotilde also worked with us to plan for development of new content for schools in Spanish to take advantage of the immersive presence of laptops.

5. David Cavallo spoke to more than 60 people from the Omar Dengo Foundation staff and “assessores,” the people who go to schools to provide teachers professional development and help instantiate powerful learning environments. He presented the OLPC machine and vision and also discussed ideas around laptops and learning, and how a 1:1 approach with connected laptops brings new opportunities. Originally scheduled for two hours, the session was brought to a close after four hours only so that participants could catch their buses home.

6. Zephaniah Hull continues work on the touch pad drivers and should have samples in the next few days. He has the Linux evdev (event-based) kernel driver for the touch pad completed. The X Window System implementation to support the touch pad still has bugs he is currently tracking down and eliminating.

Laptop News is archived at Laptop News.

You can subscribe to the OLPC community-news mailing list by visiting the laptop.org mailman site.

Press requests: please send email to press at laptop dot org.

MILESTONES

Aug. 2006 Working prototype of the dual-mode display
06 Jun. 2006 First video with working prototype [1]
28 Jan. 2006 World Economic Forum, Switzerland
UNDP and OLPC Sign Partnership Agreement
news release
13 Dec. 2005 Quanta Computer Inc. to Manufacture Laptop
(html)(pdf)
16 Nov. 2005 WSIS, Tunisia
Prototype Unveiled by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan

Photos: (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)
Webcast: (Arabic) (English) (French) (original)
Webcast provided by the ITU and UN Webcast Services with the support of RealNetworks Ltd. RealPlayer is required to view the webcast (available at no cost).

Jan. 2005 Laptop Intiative Officially Announced at World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland

PRESS

06 Sep. 2006 nacion.com | Computadoras de $100 estarán listas en el 2007
07 Jul. 2006 San Diego Union-Tribune | U.S. and international educators show great interest in prototype
Jul. 2006 SPIE Professional | $100 laptop nears launch
21 Jun. 2006 BusinessWeek online | For Brazil's Poor, a Digital Deliverance?
24 May 2006 CNET News.com | $100 laptop gets working prototype
07 Apr. 2006 rediff.com | Our $100 laptops will run on human power
02 Apr. 2006 O Estado de S.Paulo | Fazer a diferença
28 Mar. 2006 FT.com | Waking up to a laptop revolution
24 Mar. 2006 Diário do Comércio | Um Laptop por Crianca
22 Mar. 2006 Times Online | Getting the world's poor logged on
09 Mar. 2006 Correio Popular | País disputa fabricação de laptop de US$ 100
  Folha de S. Paulo | Governo quer comprar 1 milhão de laptops
  Info Exame On Line | Governo quer um milhão de laptops de US$ 100
08 Mar. 2006 IDG Now | Faculdade abre programa de inclusão digital para alunos
  Folha de S. Paulo | Governo negocia fabricação do laptop de US$ 100 no Brasil
  Agência Globo | Governo estuda possibilidade de produção de computador de US$ 100 no país
  Teletime News | DVB detalha contrapartidas oferecidas ao Brasil
05 Mar. 2006 ACM/CIE | Interview with Nicholas Negroponte on the $100 laptop
16 Feb. 2006 MITIR | Podcast of Walter Bender's MURJ lecture on One Laptop per Child
15 Feb. 2006 CNET | PCs for the poor: Which design will win?
10 Feb. 2006 CNET | Perspective: Will the $100 PC fly?
09 Feb. 2006 NYTimes | A Plug for the Unplugged $100 Laptop Computer for Developing Nations
  UPI | One Laptop Project reaches critical stages
31 Jan. 2006 Slashdot | Microsoft OS Smart Phone for Developing Nations
  USA Today | Gates sees cellphones as way to help Third World
  Macworld | Red Hat officially commits to MIT's $100 laptop
28 Jan. 2006 UNDP | $100 Laptop Project Moves Closer to Narrowing Digital Divide
20 Dec. 2005 BusinessWeek online | Quanta faces challenges in making "millions and millions" of $100 laptops.
19 Dec. 2005 Forbes.com | China to decide by March whether to join OneLaptopPerChild project.
14 Dec. 2005 UPI | Nortel to take part in OneLaptopPerChild endeavor.
13 Dec. 2005 Red Herring | Quanta to manufacture laptops; expects deliveries in 2006 4th quarter.
  OLPC | Quanta Computer Inc. to Manufacture $100 Laptop
11 Dec. 2005 NYTimes | NY Times: 5th Annual Year in Ideas $100 Laptop
04 Dec. 2005 Guardian Unlimited | The $100 laptop question
01 Dec. 2005 RFDESIGN | $100 Laptops Feature Novel Peer-to-Peer Wireless Connectivity
30 Nov. 2005 FT.com | Five companies in Asia making bids to manufacture $100 laptop.
28 Nov. 2005 Fortune Magazine | THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: I'd Like to Teach the World to Type
25 Nov. 2005 People's Daily Online | Nigerian president says government has budgeted for a million $100 laptops.
18 Nov. 2005 The Electric New Paper | Gramophone? No, Laptop
17 Nov. 2005 BBC News | UN Debut for $100 Laptop for Poor
  Seattle Times | $100 Laptops Aim to Bring Children the World
  TechWhack | MIT Unveils their USD 100 Laptop
  TeitB | 100 US Dollar Laptop Computer Launched
  ZDNet | '$100 Laptops' Here by Next Year
  ABC | $100 Laptop Bridges Digital Divide
  Financial Express | Laptop @$100!
16 Nov. 2005 MIT News Office | Annan to Present Prototype $100 Laptop at World Summit on Information Society
  Reuters | Researchers Unveil $100 Laptop for Schoolkids
  CNET | $100 Laptop Takes World Stage
  CNET | $100 Laptop Expected in Late 2006
  Christian Science Monitor | A Low-Cost Laptop for Every Child
  ADNKronos International | Internet: Wind-Up, Budget Laptop Unveiled
14 Nov. 2005 WSJ | The $100 Laptop Moves Closer to Reality
13 Nov. 2005 The Inquirer | Hubris over $100 Laptop idea
New York Times | Google Earmarks $265million for Charity and Social Causes
13 Oct. 2005 Technology Review | The Hundred Dollar Man: Technology Review's editor in chief, Jason Pontin, talk with Nicholas Negroponte about the Hundred Dollar Computer.
30 Sep. 2005 Times Online | A $100 clockwork computer to help the poor to learn
29 Sep. 2005 I4U News | Sub-$100 Laptop design unveiled
28 Sep. 2005 Boston Globe | Prototypes of $100 laptop with hand crank planned by early next year.
  MIT World | NN at Technology Review
27 Sep. 2005 Datamation | Low cost PCs for the Enterprise
06 Jun. 2005 estadao.com.br | Cada criança na escola com um laptop a tiracolo

Video

(Misc. videos of the laptop can be found here.)