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How will this initiative be structured?

The XO laptop is being developed by One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a Delaware-based, non-profit organization created to design, manufacture, and distribute laptops that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education. OLPC is based on "Constructionist" theories of learning pioneered by Seymour Papert and later Alan Kay, as well as the principles expressed in Nicholas Negroponte's book 'Being Digital'.

Corporate members

Team

Nicholas Negroponte is Chairman of One Laptop per Child.

Other principals involved in developing the laptop are:

Jim Gettys Vice President of Software
Michail Bletsas Chief Connectivity Officer
David Cavallo Co-head of the MIT Media Lab's Future of Learning group
SJ Klein Content Director
John Watlington School Server
Richard Smith
Chris Ball
Andres Salomon
C. Scott Ananian
Michael Stone Security Intern
Eben Eliason Lead UI Designer
Mitch Bradley Firmware

Other officers are:

Antonio Battro Chief Education Officer
Robert Fadel Director of Finance
Charles Kane Chief Financial Officer
Habib Khan Director of Education for South and Central Asia

Advisors

Benjamin Mako Hill MIT Media Lab, Free Software Foundation, OLPC, Debian, Ubuntu
Alan Kay Inventor of Smalltalk
Seymour Papert Inventor of LOGO
Barry Vercoe Professor of Music
Ted Selker Director of the Context Aware Computing Lab at MIT
V. Michael Bove, Jr.

and many others are advisors to the project.

Other

Design Continuum collaborated on the initial laptop design.
Fuseproject is our current industrial-design partner.
Red Hat and Pentagram have been instrumental in designing and building the Sugar interface.
The Free Software/Open Source community has been an invaluable partner at all stages of the software development process.

How can I get involved?

There are many ways to get involved, the most basic being to contribute your ideas and feedback. This is the project wiki (http://wiki.laptop.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child) where we are accumulating information about the project and suggesting places and ways to help. See Getting involved in OLPC.

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-=== How will this initiative be structured? ===
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-The $100 laptop is being developed by One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a Delaware-based, non-profit organization created by members of the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture, and distribute laptops that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education. OLPC is based on "constructionist" theories of learning pioneered by [[Seymour Papert]] and later [[Alan Kay]], as well as the principles expressed in [[Nicholas Negroponte]]'s book 'Being Digital'. The founding corporate members are 3M, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Brightstar, eBay, Google, Marvell, News Corporation, Nortel, Quanta, and Red Hat. Other members include CMO and UL.
+== How will this initiative be structured? ==
+The XO laptop is being developed by One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a Delaware-based, non-profit organization created to design, manufacture, and distribute laptops that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education. OLPC is based on "[[Constructionism|Constructionist]]" theories of learning pioneered by [[Seymour Papert]] and later [[Alan Kay]], as well as the principles expressed in [[Nicholas Negroponte]]'s book 'Being Digital'.
-Nicholas Negroponte is chairman of One Laptop per Child and Mary Lou Jepsen serves as chief technology officer. Other principals involved in developing the $100 Laptop are: Walter Bender, Jim Gettys, Michail Bletsas, Mark Foster, Khaled Hassounah, V. Michael Bove, Jr., and David Cavallo. Benjamin Mako Hill, Joseph Jacobson, Alan Kay, Tod Machover, Seymour Papert, [[Mitchel Resnick]], Ted Selker, and many others are advisors to the project.
+===Corporate members===
-Design Continuum collaborated on the initial laptop design. Fuseproject is our current industrial-design partner.
+* [http://www.amd.com/ Advanced Micro Devices] (AMD)
-=== How can I get involved? ===
+* [http://www.brightstar.com/ Brightstar]
+* [http://www.chimeicorp.com/ Chi Mei]
+* [http://www.ebay.com/ eBay]
+* [http://www.google.com/ Google] and [http://www.google.org/ Google.org]
+* [http://www.marvell.com/ Marvell]
+* [http://www.newscorp.com/ News Corporation]
+* [http://www.nortel.com/ Nortel]
+* [http://www.quanta.com.tw/Quanta/english/Default.aspx Quanta]
+* [http://www.redhat.com/ Red Hat]
+===Team===
-There are many ways to get involved, the most basic being to contribute your ideas and feedback. This is the project wiki (http://wiki.laptop.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child) where we are accumulating information about the project and suggesting places and ways to help. See [[Getting involved in OLPC]].
+[[Nicholas Negroponte]] is Chairman of One Laptop per Child.
-= Administrative Questions =
+Other principals involved in developing the laptop are:
-===What if my question isn't listed here in the FAQ?===
+* Jim Gettys Vice President of Software
-If you have a question, or would like more information about a specific question, feel free to add it to the [[Ask OLPC a Question]] page.
+* [http://web.media.mit.edu/~mbletsas/ Michail Bletsas] Chief Connectivity Officer
+* [http://www.media.mit.edu/people/bio_cavallo.html David Cavallo] Co-head of the MIT Media Lab's Future of Learning group
+* [[User:Sj|SJ Klein]] Content Director
+* [[John Watlington]] School Server
+* [[Richard Smith]]
+* [[Chris Ball]]
+* [[Andres Salomon]]
+* [[User:CScott|C. Scott Ananian]]
+* [[User:Mstone|Michael Stone]] Security Intern
+* [[User:Eben|Eben Eliason]] Lead UI Designer
+* [[Mitch Bradley]] Firmware
+Other officers are:
-Also, please remember that the Wiki is much more than a simple list of questions and answers. There are many other informational pages in the Wiki which you can read. The major ones are listed in the [[Table of Contents]]. There is also the Search box on the left under the navigation list. Try a few keywords and see what is written on the topic elsewhere in the Wiki.
+* [http://laptop.org/vision/people/AntonioBattro/ Antonio Battro] Chief Education Officer
-===What if my question has not been answered here in the FAQ?===
+* [http://laptop.org/vision/people/RobertFadel/ Robert Fadel] Director of Finance
+* [http://laptop.org/vision/people/CharlesKane/ Charles Kane] Chief Financial Officer
+* [http://laptop.org/vision/people/HabibKhan/ Habib Khan] Director of Education for South and Central Asia
+===Advisors===
-We make every effort to answer all of the questions posed in the FAQ. If the answer is not satisfactory, please use the discussion page to shed light on your concerns.
+* [[Benjamin Mako Hill]] MIT Media Lab, Free Software Foundation, OLPC, Debian, Ubuntu
+* [[Alan Kay]] Inventor of Smalltalk
+* [[Seymour Papert]] Inventor of LOGO
+* [http://web.media.mit.edu/~bv/ Barry Vercoe] Professor of Music
+* [http://web.media.mit.edu/~selker/ Ted Selker] Director of the Context Aware Computing Lab at MIT
+* V. Michael Bove, Jr.
+and many others are advisors to the project.
+===Other===
+* Design Continuum collaborated on the initial laptop design.
+* Fuseproject is our current industrial-design partner.
+* Red Hat and Pentagram have been instrumental in designing and building the [[Sugar]] interface.
+* The [http://www.fsf.org/ Free Software]/Open Source community has been an invaluable partner at all stages of the software development process.
+=== How can I get involved? ===
+There are many ways to get involved, the most basic being to contribute your ideas and feedback. This is the project wiki (http://wiki.laptop.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child) where we are accumulating information about the project and suggesting places and ways to help. See [[Getting involved in OLPC]].
-[[Category:OLPC FAQ]]
+[[Category:OLPC FAQ|O6]]