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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.
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== How will this initiative be structured? ==


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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===
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Design Continuum collaborated on the initial laptop design. Fuseproject is our current industrial-design partner.

* [http://www.amd.com/ Advanced Micro Devices] (AMD)
* [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===

[[Nicholas Negroponte]] is Chairman of One Laptop per Child.

Other principals involved in developing the laptop are:

* Jim Gettys Vice President of Software
* [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:

* [http://laptop.org/vision/people/AntonioBattro/ Antonio Battro] Chief Education Officer
* [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===

* [[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===

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* 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? ===
=== How can I get involved? ===

Latest revision as of 11:36, 26 June 2009


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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:

Other officers are:

Advisors

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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