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=LAPTOP NEWS=
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1. Cambridge: A three-day (36 hour) working session took place at OLPC
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headquarters with a subset of launch countries (Argentina, Uruguay,
Brazil, Nigeria and Rwanda), asking the countries to be partners and
critics. An extremely interactive meeting ensued, at times boisterous
and combative, from early morning to late evening with only a few
breaks and minimal sleep. Every topic was touched from firmware to
firm agreements.


To contribute a story or news idea, see the '''[[OLPC:Newsroom|OLPC newsroom]]'''.
2. Cambridge: At a two-day design review with Quanta and Fuse Project
we finalized all ID and mechanical changes and most electrical
changes.


For coverage of recent OLPC updates, see our [[twitter]] feed and [http://blog.laptop.org OLPC blog].
3. A team from the MIT Media Lab spent the day at OLPC presenting
current and potential plans for the XO. A highlight was a presentation
of projects from a class being taught by Henry Holtzman and Ted
Selker.


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. A method for creating 400 different colors of XOs on the back cover
of the laptop was decided: multi-color XO pieces of plastic will be
attached via heat stake to the back cover of the laptop. 20 colors
will be used for the X and the O, creating 400 unique combinations,
enough for each child in a small school to have their own colors.


== Upcoming pieces ==
5. The Red Hat team has generated 60 builds in the last month and a
; Claudia
half—a strenuous pace. Build 299 was released this week. A new stable
: Learning Chat piece: 278 words, ready now. [[File:Learning Chat.docx]]
build, the first one that will be used by children, will have many
: 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.
improvements and some new activities: a Tetris-like game, a slide-show
: This can become a 4-part series.
activity, and a preview of the journal. The firmware team at OLPC was
; Antonio: Homo docens: 500+ words, Antonio approved my edits. [[File:Homo docens JLedits.docx]]
also been busy preparing release B76, which fixes many of the battery
: 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.
problems experienced in earlier releases.
: 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 ==
The new build contains some new activities and also improvements in
many of the existing activities. The Abiword word processor activity
has had a number of bug fixes and is the first activity that saves to
the journal when you close it. TamTam has been vastly improved and now
includes a track editor. The web browser is vastly improved: it
properly scales pages, text, and images to our 200dpi display and
includes the Gnash free-software flash viewer. The news reader
included is also more obviously named.


'''[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.
There are also changes to the Sugar API to support new functionality;
lots of bug fixes and changes have been made to the new mesh view,
which is where network activation now takes place. Also, a splash
screen that takes a child's picture and asks their name is included
with this build.


Archives: [[OLPC:News/Archive 1|2005-2006]]
This build also includes a new Marvell firmware that fixes a few
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 2|2007]]
mesh-related problems; a big step forward. This is in conjunction with
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 3|2008]]
a new kernel that fixes some problems that were showing up under heavy
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 4|2009-10]]
network traffic will make a big difference in our networking
experience.


=== Translations ===
We are about to release a new auto update image that will let people
Sporadic translations of news archives from 2008 and earlier can be found here:
upgrade from version B43 (the last stable release) or B61 (included on
: [[OLPC:News/lang-de|German]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-es|Spanish]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ja|Japanese]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ko|Korean]]
the B2 machines) to B76 which includes important battery charging
fixes that many people have run into. It also fixes the problem where
the wireless does not show up after a reboot. Please upgrade your
systems
(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Btest_Boards).


== [[OLPC:Videos|OLPC videos]] ==
The kernel in this build also contains a software work around for the
For a history of videos about OLPC and the XO, see [http://olpc.tv olpc.tv] and [[OLPC:Videos]].
problem we were seeing where the touch pad jumped around when you
released your finger.


== Sugar news ==
Many thanks to Dan Williams, Marco Gritti, Richard Smith, Marcelo
Walter continues to post summaries of Sugar development '''[http://walterbender.org/?cat=3 on his blog]'''.
Tosatti, John Palmieri, Chris Ball, Tomeu Vizoso, the Abiword team,
the TamTam team, Andres Salomon, and Owen Williams, who worked very
hard on this release.


== Press ==
6. From the community: Build 299 includes the beta release of the
For an archive of OLPC media coverage, see the [[OLPC:Press/2005-2008|2005-2008 press archives]].
TamTam music editor. TamTam Edit is a page-driven event sequencer
featuring a powerful music generator, a colorful and intuitive
graphical interface to create, modify, and organize notes on five
virtual "tracks," a palette of almost one-hundred sounds, and a
music-construction model that allows virtually limitless variations in
all musical styles.


== Past announcements ==
TamTam Edit joins miniTamTam and TamTam synthLab as the third
Developed through 2011 by the Racepoint Group, OLPC's ''pro bono'' PR firm.
component of a complete music and sound creation and collaboration
environment on the XO. A fourth component, consisting of a
collaborative playing and composing tool,
will be forthcoming as soon as the mesh-network APIs stabilize.


* 2008-08-06 : [[Media:OLPC-Asia.doc|One Laptop per Child expands its presence in Asia]] with project leads in India and China
TamTam Edit uses about 55–65% of the CPU when running full tilt and
* 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.
presently occupies about 20MB of RAM. Kudos to Jean Piché, James
* 2008-05-15 : [[Media:XP-on-XO.doc|Microsoft Windows XP is now available on the XO laptop]]
Bergstra of the Université de Montréal and Adrian Martin of the
* 2008-05-03 : [[Media:Kane-appointment.doc|One Laptop per Child appoints Charles Kane as President and Chief Operating Officer]]
University of Toronto for making this a reality—given the constraints,
* 2008-01-07 : [[Media:G1G1-results.doc|One Laptop per Child Giving Campaign Raises $35 Million]] in 2007
this is an engineering feat of no small proportion. Olivier Bélanger
* 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]
and Nathanael Lécaudé, both of the Université de Montréal have also
* 2007-12-05 : [[Media:Peru-OLPC.doc|Peru launches OLPC with 40,000 laptops]], starting with one-classroom schools across the country.
contributed an enormous amount of time to create what is turning out
* 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.
to be a suite of expressive tools we are extremely proud of.
* 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]


7. Video: Erik Blankinship and Bakhtiar Mikhak from Media Mods have
video capture and playback working within in the Camera Activity. It
will be folded into a build coming soon.


8. Richard prepared a CD that contained a Build 282 set up for QEmu
and the latest Develop Activity from Andrew Clunis (orospaker). SJ
Klein distributed the CDs at the Serious Games conference. Special
thanks to Andrew, who pulled together an easy QEmu install built and
integrated the Develop Activity in to
Build 282.


[[Category:OLPC]]
9. Kernel: In the quest to get a stable kernel ready for our new
stable build, Andres worked with Tom Gleixner to fix the kernel crash
we were seeing; that has since made it upstream (along with a few
other problems that were noticed in hrtimers). There were some
libertas wireless driver changes that went into the kernel, and Andres
enabled some netfilter modules to allow NAT to work. Chris notes that
the dyntick bug that we had been seeing (#954) isn't really fixed, it
is just harder to reproduce. Ah, races are fun.

10. Performance: We've recently focused effort on solving a problem
that costs 30% of the performance of the system when a network
interface is enabled. This is due to a cache snooping issue with USB
that the GX processor has. Mitch Bradley verified that the "uncached
descriptor" workaround for the USB/BTB performance problem nearly
eliminates the CPU performance hit. Andres worked on adding a new
memory zone to the kernel for uncached memory allocations; that work
lives in a separate kernel branch [0]. Marcelo is in the process of
testing it to see whether it actually makes a difference for GX
performance with DMA.

11. Firmware: Mitch Bradley made good progress on suspend/resume on B2
using firmware tests. With the board modified to pull DCONLOAD down
instead of up, Mitch can suspend and resume without losing display
integrity and display interaction continues to work after resume. The
core resume is pretty fast: less than 15mS (not counting the time to
resync the DCON to the video, which add an extra 30mS or so). Mitch
can also access the NAND FLASH and SD after resume but does not have
USB resume working yet.

Mitch started to look into use cases for firmware wireless support,
now that Lilian Walter has released a working firmware wireless driver
and Wifi supplicant. Earlier in the week, Lilian released the first
version of the supplicant and wireless ethernet driver to Mitch.
Lilian also worked on country the country code, channel, and transmit
power information so that the driver will comply with local regulatory
constraints (called IE support.) Lilian currently debugging the ad-hoc
join operation.

12. Touch-pad driver: Zephaniah Hull reports the lack of debounce on
the PT to GS switch has been corrected, and the touch pad continues to
work properly.


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=
{|
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|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]

|-
|&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 ]

|-
|&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]

|-
|&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]

|-
|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.]

|-
|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]

|-
|&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]

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

|-
|&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]

|-
|&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]

|-
|
||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]

|-
|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]

|-
|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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