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=LAPTOP NEWS=
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1. Abuja, Nigeria: A significant milestone was reached when
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approximately one- hundred laptops were handed out to children in
Nigerian test school, Galadima. The laptops were received with smiles,
curiosity, and giggles. The most popular feature in the first hour the
children spent with their laptops was the mesh view. As of this
moment, one-hundred families in the Nigerian Galadima community will
have spent part of their family time around the laptops, with the
children proudly explaining how they work.


To contribute a story or news idea, see the '''[[OLPC:Newsroom|OLPC newsroom]]'''.
2. Buenos Aires: David Cavallo, Rodrigo Mesquita, and Walter Bender
participated a series of five half-day workshops for a variety of
audiences. The attending groups included key people in government,
education, and software development, as well as events for the press
and general public. Alejandro Piscitelli and Laura Serra of educ.ar
contributed greatly to the discussions and development of ideas.
Valter Cegal and Rebecca Gonzales of AMD also participated.


For coverage of recent OLPC updates, see our [[twitter]] feed and [http://blog.laptop.org OLPC blog].
3. New York: Sj Klein met with representatives from UNICEF, which is
developing projects for UNIWiki, an effort to coordinate shared free
knowledge produced internally and by others (e.g., Voices of Youth).
They are especially interested in focusing on projects in developing
nations, with attention to multilingualism, mentoring, and
cross-cultural communication.


This page historically hosted announcements and news about OLPC, along with the Sugar Labs [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Current_Events '''current events'''] page.
4. Washington: The Library of Congress World Digital Library is asking
their network of librarians and curators to join the OLPC curation
efforts, in the subjects and languages that most interest them.


== Upcoming pieces ==
5. Mesh activities: Dan Williams and the Collabora team continue to
; Claudia
work on the Presence Service, a key to developing mesh-enabled
: Learning Chat piece: 278 words, ready now. [[File:Learning Chat.docx]]
activities. They are making good progress, building out the APIs and
: Making Learning Visible: Claudia's (& Walter) original is 25 pages. Submitted to a journal. w/o OLPC Background it is down to 12-15 pages w/ screenshots.
testing the libraries under our framework.
: This can become a 4-part series.
; Antonio: Homo docens: 500+ words, Antonio approved my edits. [[File:Homo docens JLedits.docx]]
: Further work: we can definitely ask him to contribute on a quarterly basis but I've found that I have to be very specific as to what I am asking to do and he has to be comfortable that it is consistent with his academic work.
: Ask for a new piece on the epidemiology of learning
; Rodrigo:
: [[Ometepe]] - A beautiful piece with wonderful images. RAH posted a personal and lengthy version (1500+ words) that he shared with his private distribution list. I made an edited version (1200 words) that could be shared publicly. Must check with RAH on this. [[File:Ometepe articulo por Rodrigo Arboleda.pdf]] [[File:Ometepe by Rodrigo Arboleda (3).pdf]]
: I had hoped that we could do a video series with Rodrigo but the budget hasn't been approved. Giulia - can we get an answer on this?
; Rwanda:
: Rwanda case studies
: Ceri Whatley - summary of importance of headmasters - confirm subset to reuse
: Social mapping project - 1- or 2-part piece - check w/ Julia
: Grandmother project - 2- or 3-part piece - check w/ Julia (and is there more to that awesome series?)
; Other Africa
: So. Africa case studies
; Peru and Uruguay:
: ''Oscar B's piece on the IADB study?''
: You said that Uruguay and Peru produce a ton of content on a continuous basis. I'm struggling a bit with how we can easily get the content and translate it into English. Giulia - could Olga help? I don't want to burden her with more work. Maybe we do this every 2-3 months.
; Other LatAm:
: Colombia: Sandra's quarterly? newsletter and website could feed into this. Plus english translations.
: Nicaragua: Regular update, beyond Ometepe?
: Paraguay: Contact [[ParaguayEduca]]
: Mexico: Ask Mariana @ OLPCMexico
; OLPC Australia: Great text and videos.
; OLPC Europe: Quarterly update from them?
; OLPC Oceania: Quarterly updates from Mike Hutak
; OLPC Jamaica: Quarterly update from Sameer, good videos.
; North America
: Miami - David! and a story from Chester
: Canada - Jennifer Martino, Q


== News archives ==
6. Startup screen: Dan also found time to put together a new startup
screen for the laptop that takes a child's picture.


'''[http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/community-news/ Weekly OLPC News postings]''' to the community-news mailing list give updates on recent work. Weekly summaries were also posted on-wiki during [[OLPC:News/2008|2008]]. Weekly postings to the list were put on hold at the start of 2009, and started again in 2010.
7. Bug hunting: Marcelo Tosatti investigated and located the source of
the iperf-corruption problem we were seeing on some of the laptops
under heavy load. It turned out to be the result of a fix in the
networking driver. Marcelo has also been investigating and working on
implementations to tell activities on the machine when they are
running out of memory and give them a chance to release caches or shut
down.


Archives: [[OLPC:News/Archive 1|2005-2006]]
8. UI: Marco Gritti and Tomeu Vizoso have been making progress on Sugar. The
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 2|2007]]
current builds have a large number of fixes and changes over what
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 3|2008]]
shipped with the Build-239 machines; people will be pleasantly
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 4|2009-10]]
surprised. Tomeu has been working largely on underlying widgets and
infrastructure and Marco has been busy working on higher-level
constructs, including working with Eben Eliason to firm up design
decisions. The new Sugar has a better default font, moves a lot of the
networking into the home page, includes a Journal demo, and rollover
information for the activities that should greatly help with usability
and first impressions.


=== Translations ===
9. Music Activities: The TamTam team has been hard at work improving
Sporadic translations of news archives from 2008 and earlier can be found here:
the music program as well. The new version exposes the track editor
: [[OLPC:News/lang-de|German]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-es|Spanish]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ja|Japanese]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ko|Korean]]
and is much more interesting than previous versions.


== [[OLPC:Videos|OLPC videos]] ==
10. Trial-1: We have been working toward a new stable build that will
For a history of videos about OLPC and the XO, see [http://olpc.tv olpc.tv] and [[OLPC:Videos]].
form the basis of our first tests in the field. Andres Salomon
branched a stable tree (http://dev.laptop.org/~dilinger/stable/).


== Sugar news ==
11. School server: The software architecture of the school servers is
Walter continues to post summaries of Sugar development '''[http://walterbender.org/?cat=3 on his blog]'''.
starting to come together, through discussions this week around the
networking services
provided and possible scaling mechanisms. For Trial-1, the networking
will remain IPv4, with the school server providing DHCP, DNS, HTTP
cache, and NAT functionality. Hardware for school server development
has arrived in Cambridge, with plans to have a limited prototype up
and running over the next week.


== Press ==
12. Marc Fiuczynky of PlanetLab (Princeton University) visited to
For an archive of OLPC media coverage, see the [[OLPC:Press/2005-2008|2005-2008 press archives]].
discuss lessons learned by PlanetLab. Herbert Poeztl, who developed
the virtual-server mechanism (Vserver) used by PlanetLab, has been
working at OLPC to help integrate it with our software. (Vserver is a
Linux technology for "containerization" of environments that will be
very useful in the future for both management and increased security.)


== Past announcements ==
13. Suspend/Resume and Power Management: Mitch Bradley has been
Developed through 2011 by the Racepoint Group, OLPC's ''pro bono'' PR firm.
working on bringing up resume in OpenFirmware. He has dismantled and
instrumented a B2 with the following results:
* the long delay from power/wakeup to CPU on is down to 12mS (instead
of 500mS—probably a CAFE FPGA turn-on delay);
* we no longer sees random hard-hangs;
* a problem with the DCON wiring with respect to wake-up was found; and
* resume-from-RAM was having problems by is now seemingly reliable.


* 2008-08-06 : [[Media:OLPC-Asia.doc|One Laptop per Child expands its presence in Asia]] with project leads in India and China
The current time from power-reapplied to completion of the wakeup
* 2008-05-20 : [[Media:XO-2-preview.doc|One Laptop per Child frames the next generation of the revolutionary XO laptop]], with a lighter dual-touchscreen design.
procedure is 27.6mS. Mitch knows an easy way to knock off another
* 2008-05-15 : [[Media:XP-on-XO.doc|Microsoft Windows XP is now available on the XO laptop]]
4.5mS , to bring the core wakeup time down about 23mS. It is
* 2008-05-03 : [[Media:Kane-appointment.doc|One Laptop per Child appoints Charles Kane as President and Chief Operating Officer]]
conceivable that he might manage to shave off a few more milliseconds,
* 2008-01-07 : [[Media:G1G1-results.doc|One Laptop per Child Giving Campaign Raises $35 Million]] in 2007
but probably not much. It is very tightly coded as is, and the "long
* 2007-12-12 : [http://www.smartbrief.com/news/aaaa/industryPR-detail.jsp?id=2FDAB6BE-AE3B-482F-A7B0-6570C75397E4 ''The Kite Runner'' Inspires Gift Through One Laptop]
poles" are hardware delays like PLL startup and ROM access time for
* 2007-12-05 : [[Media:Peru-OLPC.doc|Peru launches OLPC with 40,000 laptops]], starting with one-classroom schools across the country.
early instructions. This time does not include video subsystem restart
* 2007-12-04 : [[Media:Birmingham-OLPC.doc|Birmingham, Alabama commits to One Laptop per Child]], with a pilot of 15,000 laptops across the city.
time, so additional time will be needed for that.
* 2007-11-24 : [http://www.50x15.com/en-us/sol_results_xo.aspx The Holiday Season Starts with Giving One Laptop]
* 2007-10-29 : [[Media:Uruguay-launch.doc|OLPC wins a bid to provide 100,000 laptops to children in Uruguay]], to be overseen by the Uruguayan CEIBAL project
* 2007-10-22 : [http://www.businesswire.com/news/google/20071022005302/en One Laptop per Child creates the world's "greenest" laptop computer]
* 2007-06-11 : [[Media:Mass-production.doc|Mass Production of XO's begins!]] at Quanta's Chinese facilities.
* 2007-01-03 : [http://www.businesswire.com/news/google/20070103005194/en OLPC Announces First-of-Its-Kind User Interface for XO Laptop Computer]


14. Performance: Chris Ball and Dave Woodhouse worked on a
booting-performance problem. The JFFS2 kernel-thread-speed problem is
resolved. Booting a current build on a B2 machine takes 2 minutes 2
seconds, but drops to 1 minute 24 seconds with the work around for the
USB branch-prediction problem (reported last week), and now drops to 1
minute 6 seconds with a fix to the scheduling for the JFFS2 kernel
thread. This scheduling fix should go into the build soon. Chris Ball
also added graphing of Python performance over time to the tinderbox.


15. Network: Michail Bletsas setup a 14-node mesh testbed at OLPC and
spent last week with Cozybit and Marvell debugging the mesh firmware
and the wireless driver. As of Friday night all of the major problems
have been addressed to the point that the mesh functionality is now
usable:
* in-mesh multi-hop multicast support;
* link-loss detection and route tear-down with RERR messages (This
improves route-restoration time);
* mesh transmission rate is done a the highest-available rate for each
hop (The rate for each hop is determined when the route is
discovered);
* deferred route discovery (Route discovery is now done by a lower
priority task, which reduces the variance of transmission time);
* WDS problem workaround (Wireless interface will accept WDS replies
from WDS-enabled access points. This will only work with APs that have
a different MAC OUI than the XO's [Ticket #901]).
* fixing flow control for the mesh interface on the libertas driver
alleviated the problems with high-data-rate TCP flow corruption
(Ticket #915).


[[Category:OLPC]]
16. IPv6: In preparation for integration of laptops and servers, OLPC
has started working on our IPv6 implementation. Chris helped Dave
Woodhouse with setting up "tubes," the machine running our IPv6
testbed. All XOs and other systems able to support IPv6 in the
Cambridge office now get public IPv6 addresses by default, thanks to
Dave Woodhouse and our new intern systems administartor Daniel Jared
Dominguez.

17. Power management: The power-rail measurement system arrived this
week. We now have in house equipment that can measure the current on
all power rails of a B2 board to an accuracy of about 1mA. Richard
Smith will start taking measurements on each rail and testing the
suspend-resume code. In addition to current measurement this equipment
has can control several relay contacts. These can be connected to
power switches on the laptop. All of the measurements and outputs can
be controlled remotely by Ethernet, serial, or USB. We therefore have
the ability to build a new tinderbox that can automatically test nand
image builds and firmware upgrades, while taking power measurements on
every power rail during the entire process. Previously we could not
test firmware upgrades automatically because we did not have a good
power-cycle method/restart-after- flash method.

18. Kernel: Andres synced up our kernel with the 2.6.21-rc2 release.
Andres also fixed a bug in the interaction between the rpm spec file
and dynticks that was breaking system tap. With that fixed, tinderbox
should work with 2.6.21-rc2 properly and can properly benchmark jffs2
and the SD driver. There is a pending bug in the SD driver for which
he has prepared a patch but cannot test until he can actually
benchmark. Andres "thinks" the dynticks bug is fixed (Ticket #954),
and the jffs2 bug (which adds 30 seconds to the boot time, as
discovered by Chris Blizzard) is still pending. Zephaniah Hull and Jim
Gettys "fixed" the touch-pad bug. Jordan Crouse of AMD has been
developing driver patches for suspend and resume and is further
investigating the USB performance problem. Andres also did some
investigation of the USB performance problem; he and Jordan discussed
how the hardware would implement uncached memory and poked around the
kernel code for ways to easily do it.

19. From the community: Andrew Clunis reports that a reasonably
functional version of the Develop activity is now available in
sugar-jhbuild (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Develop). It provides a very
basic "IDE"—a file TreeView and text editor, currently provided by
GtkSourceView.

20. Policy discussion: A new mailing list, aop@laptop.org, has been
set up to host community discussions about policy decisions:
everything from the OLPC security model to our position regarding
FOSS. You participation is welcome.


Laptop News is archived at [http://laptop.media.mit.edu/laptopnews.nsf/latest/news Laptop News].

You can subscribe to the OLPC community-news mailing list by visiting the [http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/community-news laptop.org mailman site].

Press requests: please send email to press@laptop.org

=MILESTONES=
{|
|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Feb.&nbsp;2007
|B2-test machines become available and are shipped to developers and the launch countries.

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Jan.&nbsp;2007
|[[Rwanda]] announced its participation in the project.

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Dec.&nbsp;2006
|[[OLPC Uruguay|Uruguay]] [http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/_Web/noticias/2006/12/2006121402.htm announced] its participation in the project.

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Nov.&nbsp;2006
|First B1 machines are built; IDB and OLPC formalize an agreement regarding Latin American and Caribbean education.

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Oct.&nbsp;2006
|B-test boards become available; [[Libya]] announces plans for one laptop for every child

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Sep.&nbsp;2006
|UI designs presented; integrated software build released; SES-Astra joins OLPC

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Aug.&nbsp;2006
|Working prototype of the dual-mode display

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Jun.&nbsp;2006
|500 developer boards are shipped worldwide; WiFi operational; Csound demonstrated over the mesh network<br/>First video with working prototype [http://www.siliconvalleysleuth.com/2006/06/first_video_of_.html]

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|May&nbsp;2006
|eBay joins OLPC; display specs set; A-test boards become available; $100 Server is announced

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Apr.&nbsp;2006
|Pre-A test board boots; Squid and FreePlay present first human-power systems

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Mar.&nbsp;2006
|Yves Behar and FuseProject are selected as industry designers

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Feb.&nbsp;2006
|Marvell joins OLPC and continues to partner on network hardware

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Jan.&nbsp;2006
|World Economic Forum, Switzerland<br/>UNDP and OLPC Sign Partnership Agreement<br/>[http://content.undp.org/go/newsroom/january-2006/100-dollar-laptop-20060128.en?categoryID=349422 news release]

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Dec.&nbsp;2005
|Quanta Computer Inc. to Manufacture Laptop<br/>[http://www.laptop.org/2005-1213-olpc.html (html)][http://www.laptop.org/2005-1213-olpc.pdf (pdf)]

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Nov.&nbsp;2005
|WSIS, Tunisia<br/>Prototype Unveiled by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan; Nortel joins OLPC<br/>
Photos: [http://www.itu.int/wsis/plib/detail.asp?y=2005&amp;n=6265 (Image 1)]
[http://www.itu.int/wsis/plib/detail.asp?y=2005&amp;n=6264 (Image 2)] [http://www.itu.int/wsis/plib/detail.asp?y=2005&amp;n=6263 (Image 3)]<br/>
Webcast: [http://196.203.134.60/archives/pc-051116-1900-ar.rm?start=00:01:22 (Arabic)]
[http://196.203.134.60/archives/pc-051116-1900-en.rm?start=00:01:26 (English)]
[http://196.203.134.60/archives/pc-051116-1900-fr.rm?start=00:01:30 (French)]
[http://196.203.134.60/archives/pc-051116-1900-fl.rm?start=00:01:35 (original)]<br/>
<i>Webcast provided by the ITU and UN Webcast Services with the support of RealNetworks Ltd. [http://www.real.com/freeplayer/?rppr=rnwk RealPlayer] is required to view the webcast (available at no cost).</i>

|-
|align="right"|Aug. 2005
|Design Continuum starts design of first laptop

|-
|align="right"|Jul. 2005
|Formal signing of original members of OLPC

|-
|align="right"|Mar. 2005
|Brightstar and Red Hat come on board

|-
|align="right"|Jan. 2005
|Laptop initiative officially announced at World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland; AMD, News Corp. and Google agree to join OLPC
|}

=PRESS=
{|
|-
|align="right"|3&nbsp;Jan.&nbsp;2007
|| networkworld.com| [http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/010307-olpc-aims-for-mass-production.html OLPC Aims for Mass Production in Third Quarter]
|-
|align="right"|3&nbsp;Jan.&nbsp;2007
|| IDG.net| [http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9007078&intsrc=hm_list One Laptop per Child Sweetens Hardware with 'Sugar' UI]
|-
|align="right"|3&nbsp;Jan.&nbsp;2007
|| YAHOO! Finance| [http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070103/20070103005194.html?.v=1 OLPC Announces First-of-Its Kind User Interface for XO Laptop Computer]
|-
|align="right"|2&nbsp;Jan.&nbsp;2007
|| Bicyclemark's Communique (podcast)| [http://bicyclemark.org/blog/2007/01/bm176-one-laptop-per-child/ One Laptop Per Child (@23C3)]
|-
|align="right"|22&nbsp;Dec.&nbsp;2006
||Financial Times| [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/96aac476-94f8-11db-a911-0000779e2340.html Clever Kit to Benefit Developing Countries] (registration required)
|-
|align="right"|27&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2006
|| Pagina/12| [http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/sociedad/3-76835-2006-11-27.html La manera más económica para mejorar la educación]
|-
|align="right"|21&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2006
|| Official Release|[http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/739111/first_1000_xo_laptops_roll_off_the_assembly_line_in/index.html?source=r_technology First 1,000 XO-Laptops Roll off the Assembly Line in Shanghai]
|-
|align="right"|19&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2006
||Jamaica Gleaner| [http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20061119/focus/focus4.html Technology - a tool for transformation]
|-
|align="right"|19&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2006
|| International Herald Tribune| [http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/19/features/design20.php One Laptop per Child: Computer designed for those who can least afford them]
|-
|align="right"|Nov./Dec.&nbsp;2006
|| Technology Review| [http://www.techreview.com/BizTech/17778/ Will This Save the World? The $100 Laptop Part III]
|-
|align="right"|Nov./Dec.&nbsp;2006
|| Technology Review| [http://www.technologyreview.com/BizTech/17777/ Will This Save the World? The $100 Laptop Part II]
|-
|align="right"|Nov./Dec.&nbsp;2006
|| Technology Review| [http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17722&ch=biztech Will This Save the World? The $100 Laptop Part I]
|-
|align="right"|8&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2006
||Popular Science| [http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2006/product_31.html Best of What's New 2006: One Laptop per Child XO- Better Screen, Better World]
|-
|align="right"|6&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2006
||ZDNet.co.uk | [http://opinion.zdnet.co.uk/comment/0,1000002138,39284554,00.htm Why Every Child Deserves a Laptop- Matthew Szulik, CEO, Red Hat]
|-
|align="right"|27&nbsp;Oct.&nbsp;2006
||LinuxWorld | [http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2006/102706-childrens-laptops.html Children's Laptop Inspires Open Source Projects]
|-
|align="right"|24&nbsp;Oct.&nbsp;2006
||LA Times | [http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-lunenfeld24oct24,0,2221682.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions Upward Mobility in a Laptop]
|-
|align="right"|24&nbsp;Oct.&nbsp;2006
||Fortune | [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/30/8391805/index.htm This PC wants to save the world]
|-
|align="right"|12&nbsp;Oct.&nbsp;2006
||Bostonist | [http://www.bostonist.com/archives/2006/10/12/one_laptop_per_child_for_libya.php One Laptop per Child for Libya]
|-
|align="right"|11&nbsp;Oct.&nbsp;2006
||New York Times | [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/world/africa/11laptop.html U.S. Group Reaches Deal to Provide Laptops to All Libyan Schoolchildren]
|-
|align="right"|3&nbsp;Oct.&nbsp;2006
||GulfNews.com | [http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/06/10/03/10071979.html College gets look at $100 Children's Laptop Computer]
|-
|align="right"|25&nbsp;Sep.&nbsp;2006
||vnunet.com | [http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2164876/olpc-receives-free-satellite OLPC offered free satellite connections]
|-
|align="right"|14&nbsp;Sep.&nbsp;2006
||Vanguard | [http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/features/technology/tec114092006.html Keyboard In Three Nigerian Languages Ready-Obasanjo]
|-
|align="right"|08&nbsp;Sep.&nbsp;2006
||Technology Review | [http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17416&ch=infotech Hack: The Hundred Dollar Laptop]
|-
|align="right"|06&nbsp;Sep.&nbsp;2006
||nacion.com | [http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2006/septiembre/05/aldea818336.html Computadoras de $100 estarán listas en el 2007]
|-
|align="right"|&nbsp;Aug.&nbsp;2006
||Wired | [http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/laptop.html The Laptop Crusade]
|-
|align="right"|28&nbsp;Aug.&nbsp;2006
||PCINpact.com | [http://light.pcinpact.com/actu/news/30979-LOLPC-a-100-est-finalise-un-engin-hors-du-co.htm L'OLPC a 100 $ est finalise: un engin hors du commun]
|-
|align="right"|21&nbsp;Aug.&nbsp;2006
||EWeek.com | [http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2006350,00.asp Knocking Down Barriers to the $100 Laptop]
|-
|align="right"|31&nbsp;Jul.&nbsp;2006
||NPR | [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5593637 Affordable Laptop Computer Project Moves Forward]
|-
|align="right"|07&nbsp;Jul.&nbsp;2006
||San Diego Union-Tribune | [http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20060707-9999-7m7laptops.html U.S. and international educators show great interest in prototype]

|-
|align="right"|Jul.&nbsp;2006
||SPIE Professional | [http://newsroom.spie.org/x3689.xml $100 laptop nears launch]

|-
|align="right"|21&nbsp;Jun.&nbsp;2006
||BusinessWeek online | [http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jun2006/nf20060621_8327.htm For Brazil's Poor, a Digital Deliverance?]

|-
|align="right"|24&nbsp;May&nbsp;2006
||CNET News.com | [http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-6076351.html $100 laptop gets working prototype]

|-
|align="right"|07&nbsp;Apr.&nbsp;2006
||rediff.com | [http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2006/apr/07laptop.htm Our $100 laptops will run on human power]

|-
|align="right"|02&nbsp;Apr.&nbsp;2006
||O Estado de S.Paulo | [http://txt.estado.com.br/editorias/2006/04/02/opi79898.xml Fazer a diferença]

|-
|align="right"|28&nbsp;Mar.&nbsp;2006
||FT.com | [http://news.ft.com/cms/s/cda9ff16-bd97-11da-a998-0000779e2340,dwp_uuid=863bb51c-1f76-11da-853a-00000e2511c8,s01=1.html Waking up to a laptop revolution]

|-
|align="right"|24&nbsp;Mar.&nbsp;2006
||Diário do Comércio | [http://net.dcomercio.com.br/WebSearch/v.asp?TxtId=137775&SessionID=777715923&id=4&q=(Bender) Um Laptop por Crianca]

|-
|align="right"|22&nbsp;Mar.&nbsp;2006
||Times Online | [http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13132-2097123,00.html Getting the world's poor logged on]

|-
|align="right"|09&nbsp;Mar.&nbsp;2006
||Correio Popular | [http://www.info4.com.br/gomateria.asp?c=683&amp;a=551&amp;m=576482&amp;l=52455&amp;who=21535 País disputa fabricação de laptop de US$ 100]

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|&nbsp;
||Folha de S. Paulo | [http://www.info4.com.br/gomateria.asp?c=683&amp;a=551&amp;m=574713&amp;l=52431&amp;who=21535 Governo quer comprar 1 milhão de laptops ]

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|&nbsp;
||Info Exame On Line | [http://www.info4.com.br/gomateria.asp?c=683&amp;a=683&amp;m=10893&amp;l=6490&amp;who=21535 Governo quer um milhão de laptops de US$ 100 ]

|-
|align="right"|08&nbsp;Mar.&nbsp;2006
||IDG Now | [http://www.info4.com.br/gomateria.asp?c=683&amp;a=683&amp;m=10891&amp;l=6489&amp;who=21535 Faculdade abre programa de inclusão digital para alunos ]

|-
|&nbsp;
||Folha de S. Paulo | [http://www.info4.com.br/gomateria.asp?c=683&amp;a=683&amp;m=10885&amp;l=6486&amp;who=21535 Governo negocia fabricação do laptop de US$ 100 no Brasil]

|-
|&nbsp;
||Agência Globo | [http://www.info4.com.br/gomateria.asp?c=683&amp;a=683&amp;m=10887&amp;l=6487&amp;who=21535 Governo estuda possibilidade de produção de computador de US$ 100 no país]

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|&nbsp;
||Teletime News | [http://www.info4.com.br/gomateria.asp?c=683&amp;a=683&amp;m=10889&amp;l=6488&amp;who=21535 DVB detalha contrapartidas oferecidas ao Brasil]

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|align="right"|05&nbsp;Mar.&nbsp;2006
||ACM/CIE | [http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/jan2006/clips/nicholas_negroponte.mov Interview with Nicholas Negroponte on the $100 laptop]

|-
|align="right"|16&nbsp;Feb.&nbsp;2006
||MITIR | [http://web.mit.edu/mitir/podcasts/2006-02-21_Bender_OLPC.mp3 Podcast of Walter Bender's MURJ lecture on One Laptop per Child]

|-
|align="right"|15&nbsp;Feb.&nbsp;2006
||CNET | [http://news.com.com/PCs+for+the+poor+Which+design+will+win/2100-1003_3-6040019.html PCs for the poor: Which design will win?]

|-
|align="right"|10&nbsp;Feb.&nbsp;2006
||CNET | [http://news.com.com/A+vaporware+battle+royale/2010-1071_3-6037674.html Perspective: Will the $100 PC fly?]

|-
|align="right"|09&nbsp;Feb.&nbsp;2006
||NYTimes | [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70E14F83F5A0C7A8CDDAB0894DE404482 A Plug for the Unplugged $100 Laptop Computer for Developing Nations]

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|&nbsp;
||UPI | [http://www.upi.com/Hi-Tech/view.php?StoryID=20060209-124347-1619r One Laptop Project reaches critical stages]

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|align="right"|31&nbsp;Jan.&nbsp;2006
||Slashdot | [http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/01/31/0357225.shtml Microsoft OS Smart Phone for Developing Nations]

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|&nbsp;
||USA Today | [http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kevinmaney/2006-01-31-gates_x.htm Gates sees cellphones as way to help Third World]

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|&nbsp;
||Macworld | [http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/01/31/redhat/index.php Red Hat officially commits to MIT's $100 laptop]

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|align="right"|20&nbsp;Dec.&nbsp;2005
||BusinessWeek online | [http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2005/tc20051220_069981.htm Quanta faces challenges in making "millions and millions" of $100 laptops.]

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|align="right"|19&nbsp;Dec.&nbsp;2005
||Forbes.com | [http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2005/12/19/afx2400542.html China to decide by March whether to join OneLaptopPerChild project.]

|-
|align="right"|14&nbsp;Dec.&nbsp;2005
||UPI | [http://www.upi.com/Hi-Tech/view.php?StoryID=20051214-042829-9724r Nortel to take part in OneLaptopPerChild endeavor.]

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|align="right"|13&nbsp;Dec.&nbsp;2005
||Red Herring | [http://saiquist.notlong.com Quanta to manufacture laptops; expects deliveries in 2006 4th quarter.]

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|align="right"|11&nbsp;Dec.&nbsp;2005
||NYTimes | [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/magazine/11ideas_section2-11.html NY Times: 5th Annual Year in Ideas $100 Laptop]

|-
|align="right"|01&nbsp;Dec.&nbsp;2005
||RFDESIGN | [http://rfdesign.com/news/laptops-wireless-connectivity/ $100 Laptops Feature Novel Peer-to-Peer Wireless Connectivity]

|-
|align="right"|30&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2005
||FT.com | [http://news.ft.com/cms/s/06810fda-61bf-11da-8470-0000779e2340.html Five companies in Asia making bids to manufacture $100 laptop.]

|-
|align="right"|28&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2005
||Fortune Magazine | [http://www.fortune.com/fortune/articles/0,15114,1129896,00.html?promoid=cnnmoney THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: I'd Like to Teach the World to Type]

|-
|align="right"|25&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2005
||People's Daily Online | [http://english.people.com.cn/200511/25/eng20051125_223849.html Nigerian president says government has budgeted for a million $100 laptops.]

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|align="right"|17&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2005
||BBC News | [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4445060.stm UN Debut for $100 Laptop for Poor]

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|&nbsp;
||Seattle Times | [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002628425_laptop17.html $100 Laptops Aim to Bring Children the World]

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|&nbsp;
||TechWhack | [http://news.techwhack.com/2455/171131-mit-unveils-their-usd-100-laptop/ MIT Unveils their USD 100 Laptop]

|-
|&nbsp;
||ZDNet | [http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/mobile/0,39020360,39237304,00.htm '$100 Laptops' Here by Next Year]

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|&nbsp;
||ABC | [http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1508732.htm $100 Laptop Bridges Digital Divide]

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|&nbsp;
||Financial Express | [http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=108887 Laptop @$100!]

|-
|align="right"|16&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2005
||MIT News Office | [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/laptop-1116.html Annan to Present Prototype $100 Laptop at World Summit on Information Society]

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|&nbsp;
||CNET | [http://news.com.com/2300-1028_3-5956458-1.html?part=rss&amp;tag=5956458&amp;subj=news $100 Laptop Takes World Stage]

|-
|&nbsp;
||CNET | [http://news.com.com/100+laptop+expected+in+late+2006/2100-1028_3-5956402.html $100 Laptop Expected in Late 2006]

|-
|&nbsp;
||Christian Science Monitor | [http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1116/p04s01-ussc.html A Low-Cost Laptop for Every Child]

|-
|align="right"|14&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2005
||WSJ | [http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113193305149696140-442o71jo_IlBrLpyUeeOdsqDs7E_20061113.html The $100 Laptop Moves Closer to Reality]

|-
|align="right"|13&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2005
||The Inquirer | [http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27646 Hubris over $100 Laptop idea]

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||New York Times | [http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F20D13F63D5B0C718DDDA90994DD404482 Google Earmarks $265million for Charity and Social Causes]

|-
|align="right"|13&nbsp;Oct.&nbsp;2005
||Technology Review | [http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/10/wo/wo_101305negroponte.asp The Hundred Dollar Man: Technology Review's editor in chief, Jason Pontin, talk with Nicholas Negroponte about the Hundred Dollar Computer.]

|-
|align="right"|29&nbsp;Sep.&nbsp;2005
||I4U News | [http://www.i4u.com/article4295.html Sub-$100 Laptop design unveiled]

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|align="right"|28&nbsp;Sep.&nbsp;2005
||Boston Globe | [http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2005/09/28/for_each_poor_child_in_world_a_laptop/ Prototypes of $100 laptop with hand crank planned by early next year.]

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|&nbsp;
||MIT World | [http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/313/ NN at Technology Review]

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|align="right"|27&nbsp;Sep.&nbsp;2005
||Datamation | [http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/netsys/article.php/3551746 Low cost PCs for the Enterprise]

|-
|align="right"|06&nbsp;Jun.&nbsp;2005
||estadao.com.br | [http://www.link.estadao.com.br/index.cfm?id_conteudo=3915 Cada criança na escola com um laptop a tiracolo]

|}

=PRESS RELEASES=
{|
|align="right" valign="top"|Jan.&nbsp;2007
|OLPC has [http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070112005706&newsLang=en No Plans] to Commercialize XO Computer.
|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Jan.&nbsp;2007
|OLPC [http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070103/20070103005194.html?.v=1 Announces] First-of-Its-Kind User Interface for XO Laptop Computer.
|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Jan.&nbsp;2007
|Rwanda [http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070103005861&newsLang=en Commits] to One Laptop per Child Initiative.
|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Dec.&nbsp;2006
|Low Cost [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061231/ap_on_hi_te/hundred_dollar_laptop Laptop] Could Tranform Learning.
|}

=[[Video of the OLPC | Video]]=
(Misc. videos of the laptop can be found.)

http://video.globo.com/Videos/Player/Noticias/0,,GIM607884-7823-CRIANCAS+TESTAM+COMPUTADOR+PORTATIL,00.html | Crianças testam computador portátil/ Students test the laptop, GLOBO- BRASIL

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

http://www.radiofarda.com/Article/2007/01/04/f2_Interview-laptop.html | A Brief Demo

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Upcoming pieces

Claudia
Learning Chat piece: 278 words, ready now. File:Learning Chat.docx
Making Learning Visible: Claudia's (& Walter) original is 25 pages. Submitted to a journal. w/o OLPC Background it is down to 12-15 pages w/ screenshots.
This can become a 4-part series.
Antonio
Homo docens: 500+ words, Antonio approved my edits. File:Homo docens JLedits.docx
Further work: we can definitely ask him to contribute on a quarterly basis but I've found that I have to be very specific as to what I am asking to do and he has to be comfortable that it is consistent with his academic work.
Ask for a new piece on the epidemiology of learning
Rodrigo
Ometepe - A beautiful piece with wonderful images. RAH posted a personal and lengthy version (1500+ words) that he shared with his private distribution list. I made an edited version (1200 words) that could be shared publicly. Must check with RAH on this. File:Ometepe articulo por Rodrigo Arboleda.pdf File:Ometepe by Rodrigo Arboleda (3).pdf
I had hoped that we could do a video series with Rodrigo but the budget hasn't been approved. Giulia - can we get an answer on this?
Rwanda
Rwanda case studies
Ceri Whatley - summary of importance of headmasters - confirm subset to reuse
Social mapping project - 1- or 2-part piece - check w/ Julia
Grandmother project - 2- or 3-part piece - check w/ Julia (and is there more to that awesome series?)
Other Africa
So. Africa case studies
Peru and Uruguay
Oscar B's piece on the IADB study?
You said that Uruguay and Peru produce a ton of content on a continuous basis. I'm struggling a bit with how we can easily get the content and translate it into English. Giulia - could Olga help? I don't want to burden her with more work. Maybe we do this every 2-3 months.
Other LatAm
Colombia: Sandra's quarterly? newsletter and website could feed into this. Plus english translations.
Nicaragua: Regular update, beyond Ometepe?
Paraguay: Contact ParaguayEduca
Mexico: Ask Mariana @ OLPCMexico
OLPC Australia
Great text and videos.
OLPC Europe
Quarterly update from them?
OLPC Oceania
Quarterly updates from Mike Hutak
OLPC Jamaica
Quarterly update from Sameer, good videos.
North America
Miami - David! and a story from Chester
Canada - Jennifer Martino, Q

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