OLPC:News

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LAPTOP NEWS

1. Cambridge MA and Cambridge England: Chris Ball talked with Dafydd Harries and Robert McQueen of Collabora, exchanging smooth audio and video (15FPS) using the XO (See http://www.robot101.net/2006/12/12/telepathy-and-olpc/).

2. Jean Piché and the TamTam team spent much of last week at OLPC in Cambridge. They are making steady progress toward a comprehensive three-stage music suite: a multi-voice instrument (an early version is already part of the current build); a composition tool; and a synthesizer. All three activities will be mesh-enabled, allowing children to create synchronous multi-laptop music.

3. Performance metrics: Chris Ball prepared system-wide profiling data in the build image for several hotspots: rendering a web page; starting a Sugar activity; starting the X Window System. This profiling work will guild our performance efforts.

4. Kernel/drivers: Andres Salomon hand-merged various Libertas fixes (Marvell's wireless driver). He also enabled PREEMPT in our kernels; the goal is to hopefully give the machine a more interactive feel, even when the system is doing lots of work. This should make the people working with sound applications happier as well, as they've been asking for a lower latency kernel.

5. Firmware: Mitch Bradley reports that Q2A71 BIOS and firmware were released this week.

6. Content repository: Ian Bicking spent two productive days at OLPC. He and SJ discussed our internal content repository and content representations, and three related applications: (1) a public “web app” interface to our repository; (2) internal interfaces to the same for system administrators and children, and (3) the Journal interface. The upshot of this is a developing draft of a definition of content and modules, use cases for the repository, and a description of an external community site and portal to support content collaboration (as a way of describing what the repository is not doing and also motivation for anyone interested in filling that gap).

7. Matthew Garrett posted a first patch at resume code for the OLPC for comment and review.

8. James Cameron did some initial range tests of the mesh in the Australian outback (See http://mailman.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2006-December/003240.html).

9. Brazil did the first test of the XOs, with children. The brazilian television network GLOBO presented this at the main news program of the night: CLICK TO SEE THE VIDEO

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MILESTONES

Dec. 2006	Uruguay announced its participation in the project.
Nov. 2006	First B1 machines are built; IDB and OLPC formalize an agreement regarding Latin American and Caribbean education.
Oct. 2006	B-test boards become available; Libya announces plans for one laptop for every child
Sep. 2006	UI designs presented; integrated software build released; SES-Astra joins OLPC
Aug. 2006	Working prototype of the dual-mode display
Jun. 2006	500 developer boards are shipped worldwide; WiFi operational; Csound demonstrated over the mesh network First video with working prototype [1]
May 2006	eBay joins OLPC; display specs set; A-test boards become available; $100 Server is announced
Apr. 2006	Pre-A test board boots; Squid and FreePlay present first human-power systems
Mar. 2006	Yves Behar and FuseProject are selected as industry designers
Feb. 2006	Marvell joins OLPC and continues to partner on network hardware
Jan. 2006	World Economic Forum, Switzerland UNDP and OLPC Sign Partnership Agreement news release
Dec. 2005	Quanta Computer Inc. to Manufacture Laptop (html)(pdf)
Nov. 2005	WSIS, Tunisia Prototype Unveiled by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan; Nortel joins OLPC 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).
Aug. 2005	Design Continuum starts design of first laptop
Jul. 2005	Formal signing of original members of OLPC
Mar. 2005	Brightstar and Red Hat come on board
Jan. 2005	Laptop initiative officially announced at World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland; AMD, News Corp. and Google agree to join OLPC

PRESS

27 Nov. 2006	Pagina/12| La manera más económica para mejorar la educación
21 Nov. 2006	Official Release|First 1,000 XO-Laptops Roll off the Assembly Line in Shanghai
19 Nov. 2006	Jamaica Gleaner| Technology - a tool for transformation
19 Nov. 2006	International Herald Tribune| One Laptop per Child: Computer designed for those who can least afford them
Nov./Dec. 2006	Technology Review| Will This Save the World? The $100 Laptop Part III
Nov./Dec. 2006	Technology Review| Will This Save the World? The $100 Laptop Part II
Nov./Dec. 2006	Technology Review| Will This Save the World? The $100 Laptop Part I
8 Nov. 2006	Popular Science| Best of What's New 2006: One Laptop per Child XO- Better Screen, Better World
6 Nov. 2006	ZDNet.co.uk | Why Every Child Deserves a Laptop- Matthew Szulik, CEO, Red Hat
27 Oct. 2006	LinuxWorld | Children's Laptop Inspires Open Source Projects
24 Oct. 2006	LA Times | Upward Mobility in a Laptop
24 Oct. 2006	Fortune | This PC wants to save the world
12 Oct. 2006	Bostonist | One Laptop per Child for Libya
11 Oct. 2006	New York Times | U.S. Group Reaches Deal to Provide Laptops to All Libyan Schoolchildren
3 Oct. 2006	GulfNews.com | College gets look at $100 Children's Laptop Computer
25 Sep. 2006	vnunet.com | OLPC offered free satellite connections
14 Sep. 2006	Vanguard | Keyboard In Three Nigerian Languages Ready-Obasanjo
08 Sep. 2006	Technology Review | Hack: The Hundred Dollar Laptop
06 Sep. 2006	nacion.com | Computadoras de $100 estarán listas en el 2007
Aug. 2006	Wired | The Laptop Crusade
28 Aug. 2006	PCINpact.com | L'OLPC a 100 $ est finalise: un engin hors du commun
21 Aug. 2006	EWeek.com | Knocking Down Barriers to the $100 Laptop
31 Jul. 2006	NPR | Affordable Laptop Computer Project Moves Forward
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
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.
11 Dec. 2005	NYTimes | NY Times: 5th Annual Year in Ideas $100 Laptop
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.
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
	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
	CNET | $100 Laptop Takes World Stage
	CNET | $100 Laptop Expected in Late 2006
	Christian Science Monitor | A Low-Cost Laptop for Every Child
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.
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.)

http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/061004-ee380-300.asx | Mark Foster delivers presentation to Standford University

http://www.technologyreview.com/ | Technology Review Mini-Documentary