OLPC:News/demo

vision

• Donations from Give One Get One last year made tremendous changes to some of the neediest places in the world. (blog, release x 7c)
• Ghanaian President Kufuor and The Ghana Laptop per Child Foundation finalize deal for 10,000 laptops (blog, photos)
• Amazon signs on to process G1G1 donations in 2008 (blog, annc)
• Nicholas presented OLPC's future vision to the UN General Assembly in New York (blog, Sep 26)
• Uruguay delivers its 100,000th XO, almost all of them with access to the internet. (blog, en/es)

media: vid.

laptop

• The 8.2 release of Sugar on the XO wins on usability, is set for G1G1 (blog, notes, screenshots link)
• C|Net's Ina Fried reviews Sugar v Windows on the XO (ON, [cnet])
• Laptops trek out into the Gobi desert, to places with no infrastructure
• OLPC unveils models of its next generation model (blog, event)
• The XO joins the ranks of the world's greenest laptops, in recyclability and power consumption. ([1] )

participate

• G1G1 2008 is around the corner. Help spread the word in your community! (blog)
• Host an upgrade party! (blog, DC party)
• OLPC Australia Open Day introduces OLPC to Canberra, October 26 (blog, invite)
• OLPC teenagers set up community repair centers in DC, Chicago. (blog, links)
• Community tech writers launch a week-long Sugar book sprint, producing a beautiful updated manual. (blog, Lulu link)

children

• Colombia prepares to embrace OLPC, rolling out initial purchases and gearing up for their future deployments (blog, photos)
• Rwandan president Paul Kagame commits to OLPC saturation within three years, sets the pace for literacy in Rwanda. (blog, annc)
• Children and teachers are introduced to XOs in rural Mongolia.
• Bastien Guerry works with students on software and localization in Haiti.
• New York City explores using XOs in their classrooms (photos)