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=Laptop News 2007-12-22=


For coverage of recent OLPC updates, see our [[twitter]] feed and [http://blog.laptop.org OLPC blog].
1. Arahuay, Peru: If you haven't yet seen it, please take the time to
read this AP article about the XO in remote Peruvian village
([http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-laptop_webdec22,1,6878223.story]).
The lead paragraph says it all: "Doubts about whether poor, rural
children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as
quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50
primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child
project six months ago."


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.
2. Hinge: Jacques Gagne has been investigating the laptop hinge—the
"clearance" between the two rotating parts should be tighter and this
would reduce wobble. Mary Lou Jepsen and Quanta are investigating a
possible run-in change at the earliest possible date.


== Upcoming pieces ==
3. Hardware certifications and testing data: Mary Lou has created a
; Claudia
compilation of certification and testing data that is available on the
: Learning Chat piece: 278 words, ready now. [[File:Learning Chat.docx]]
wiki (Please see [[Hardware Testing]]); it will
: 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.
be expanded over time.
: 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 ==
4. Green: EMPA at the Swiss National Labs is continuing its work on
life cycle analysis of the XO laptops by comparing the cost, lifetime,
power consumption, and overall environmental impact with the
refurbished desktops in Columbia. Mary Lou teleconferenced with the
team this week and will assure that they get all the data they need to
complete their analysis. The final report is due in mid-February.
Columbia is widely acknowledged to have one of the most successful
re-furbished desktop programs in Latin America.


'''[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.
5. Water: Anna Bershteyn, an MIT Ph.D. candidate, has been helping
OLPC follow up on some questions from Ban Samhka, Thailand about the
best way to test and improve water quality; water quality is an area
of interest that is expanding in the OLPC community. Anna and Mary Lou
met with Susan Murcott to discuss possible simple hands-on games on
the XOs that will encourage children to test and/or filter their
water. SJ Klein has put Anna in touch with groups from UNICEF and the
Hesperian Foundation who are also working on water safety. To learn
more about Anna, please visit the wiki [[User:Anna B]]).


Archives: [[OLPC:News/Archive 1|2005-2006]]
6. Power measurements: John Watlington instrumented a production
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 2|2007]]
machine for power measurements this week to allow continued
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 3|2008]]
verification of the laptop power-saving measures. This allows Chris
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 4|2009-10]]
Ball (and the rest of the software team) to continuously measure the
power consumption at ten different places around the laptop, and also
automatically simulate user input to wake up the laptop (power button,
lid switch, etc.). We have already have a B3 unit with over twenty
power measurement points, but it cannot aggressively suspend/resume,
and doesn't have any of the more recent power-savings-related
engineering changes.


=== Translations ===
7. Embedded controller: Richard Smith spent time studying oscilloscope
Sporadic translations of news archives from 2008 and earlier can be found here:
traces looking for a possible cause of the reopening of Ticket 1835
: [[OLPC:News/lang-de|German]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-es|Spanish]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ja|Japanese]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ko|Korean]]
(unable to resume); recent software builds were failing on the
suspend/resume testbed. He has been unable to reproduce the problem
with bare-board tests and he now feels that he fully understand the
software causes of 1835 (three distinct causes). Running the latest EC
code with Joyride kernels doesn't seem to have the problem. Richard
and John will continue to run tests on the suspend/resume testbed to
insure that we won't have the problem with Update.1


== [[OLPC:Videos|OLPC videos]] ==
A second bonus was discovery and verification of EC issues that Chris
For a history of videos about OLPC and the XO, see [http://olpc.tv olpc.tv] and [[OLPC:Videos]].
Ball and Jim Gettys have run into. Andres helped Richard find an EC
bug where the SCI mask was getting corrupted. The most frequent
manifestation of that was the loss of AC events or battery-charge
level. Richard still don't know the root cause of the corruption, but
has a good test case and kernel debug logs. There appears to be a case
where EC communication fails and error recover is not working. Fixing
it is going to involve more oscilloscope time, because turning on
serial- port debugging appears to make the problem go away. There is
already a workaround in the kernel to fix the mask when it becomes
corrupted, so it's not a show-stopper.


== Sugar news ==
Richard is also writing some cron scripts that will take a snapshot of
Walter continues to post summaries of Sugar development '''[http://walterbender.org/?cat=3 on his blog]'''.
the battery ACR while the laptop is running on battery power and then
then send us the data. Richard wants to use these data to build power
usage profiles. The ACR gives us a very accurate reading on the amount
of mA/h drawn from the battery. Plotting it over time will begin to
give us insight on our dynamic power draw.


== Press ==
8. School server We found a serious problem with the mesh networking
For an archive of OLPC media coverage, see the [[OLPC:Press/2005-2008|2005-2008 press archives]].
in the build of School-server software released last week (Build 137),
which brings down an active antenna if a large file transfer is
attempted. A new build of the software with the new libertas driver
(thanks David Woodhouse) greatly improves the situation. A new build
is being tested and tuned and will be released in the next few days.
The school-server-software build problems have returned, but this time
we identified one of the problems: it turns out that the livecd build
process fails if you have upgraded the kernel. Providing a single
choice for the kernel is the workaround for this problem.


== Past announcements ==
We have encountered scaling problem with the XMPP service on the
Developed through 2011 by the Racepoint Group, OLPC's ''pro bono'' PR firm.
server. The eJabber software runs out of memory over time as the
number of active users exceeds a hundred. Collabra is looking into
alternative server implementations. We had thought eJabber has used by
large instant-messaging services, but probably not with all the bells
and whistles we use. The XMPP service is crucial to the efficient
provision of presence information to laptops in a school through a
centralized method. The alternative, used when no server is found, is
for each laptop to send multicast announcements, which spread through
our mesh network at a low rate and using an algorithm best described
as a "flood fill".


* 2008-08-06 : [[Media:OLPC-Asia.doc|One Laptop per Child expands its presence in Asia]] with project leads in India and China
In order to support a trial in Mongolia, the server software will
* 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.
start supporting multiple servers per school in January. Each server
* 2008-05-15 : [[Media:XP-on-XO.doc|Microsoft Windows XP is now available on the XO laptop]]
in a school acts as an additional internet portal in a school's
* 2008-05-03 : [[Media:Kane-appointment.doc|One Laptop per Child appoints Charles Kane as President and Chief Operating Officer]]
wireless mesh; together they redundantly provide services to all of
* 2008-01-07 : [[Media:G1G1-results.doc|One Laptop per Child Giving Campaign Raises $35 Million]] in 2007
the laptops in a school.
* 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]
* 2007-12-05 : [[Media:Peru-OLPC.doc|Peru launches OLPC with 40,000 laptops]], starting with one-classroom schools across the country.
* 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.
* 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]


9. Active antenna update: We are awaiting a utility from Marvell for
reflashing the firmware on the active antennas we now have, to allow
their use with school servers; presently, they have to be plugged in
after a server has booted. When this arrives, it will be included in a
school server software release. Users in the field should be able to
automatically upgrade any antenna simply by plugging it into a server.


10. Testing: We released a patch to Ship.2, Build 653 to fix a problem
with Spanish laptops coming up in English, as well as a problem
(discovered in Uruguary) with the Journal items going away.


[[Category:OLPC]]
There was a discussion this week that focused on how volunteers could
get started on testing activities by editing the current wiki pages
that describe activities: many of these wiki pages are old and thus
they do not accurately reflect how the activity works. Please watch
the [[Test issues]] page in the coming weeks to see how
you can help!

11. Schedule: We are at code freeze for the Update1 release. We will
spend the next couple of weeks testing and documenting. Thanks for
everyone's patience for bearing with us during the usual chaos
associated with of the start of shipping that has gotten in the way of
a smooth release cycle. We expect to spend some time on improving
process issues before we move on to serious work in Update2.

12. Support: Adam Holt has done a heroic job this week in answering
emails sent to help@laptop.org, creating and updating the Support
pages (See [[Support]]), the Support FAQ,
helping with the Getting Started Guild (See [http://laptop.org/start])
and coordinating volunteers to help answer emails, IRC, and forum.
This weekend he is holding a volunteer training session in preparation
for a phone bank that could go live as early as next week; look on the
olpc-support IRC channel for info.

We'd like to be able to provide RMA numbers for returns to help
offload the Patriot Donor Services and we would like to put a process
in place where we can get some of the returns sent to OLPC for
analysis.

13. Localization: Sayamindu Dasgupta helped some language teams
troubleshoot their problems with Pootle. All throughout the week, he
was also testing the system to keep the POT files up to date. The
system seems to be working fine and will be rolling it out (along with
the documentation) during this weekend.

Sayamindu also gained access to build fontconfig for the OLPC in Koji
(thanks Dennis Gilmore), and created a build which should hopefully
fix Ticket #1525 (a long-standing bug due to the interaction between
the font cache and the system time).

Waqas Toor and Salman Minhas have lead a team in Pakistan to the
successful completion of an Urdu translation in Pootle
([https://dev.laptop.org/translate/ur/update1/]); all the strings are
successfully committed and are ready to be included in Update.1. They
have also commenced working on making Zekr a Sugar activity (initially
in two languages: Urdu and Persian (Dari)).

They are also making poems for children by Pakistani national poets
Illama Iqbal and Faraz Ahmad Faraz available in the form of e-books;
and they are writing a teacher "training manual" for Afghanistan,
which includes activity tutorials; they are working on materials for
teachers that address their needs in the Constructionist methodology
of education and learning.

14. Kernel: Andres Salomon and Bernie Innocenti finally were able to
reproduce Ticket #2804 (the jumpy touchpad problem) and get enough
useful debug information out of it to deduce a working theory of
what's causing it and how we can workaround it in the kernel. Bernie
has built an experimental kernel with a candidate fix and is eager to
receive feedback from some of the jumpy mouse victims to see if our
helps.

15. Updates and builds: Scott Ananian gave olpc-update the ability to
upgrade from a USB key (Ticket #3881) (See
[[Olpc-update]]); olpc-update also now warns you
if you try to upgrade to a joyride build without a developer key
(Ticket #5309) and is more efficient if it is interrupted in the
middle of an update. OFW will now upgrade you to the latest firmware
even if you have a developer key (Ticket #5371); ntpdate is run on the
XOs when we get network connectivity (Ticket #3359); rtcwake is in the
build to enable timed wakeups from suspend (Tickets #5434 and #5435);
our builds now use sudo to get root—there has been some discussion of
configuring su instead (Ticekt #5537).

Dennis Gilmore has been working on builds and some tools to help make
them faster to turn around; he has also been tagging packages for
Update.1.

16. View source: The view-source key now works in Chat, Web, Pippy,
and any activities generated by Pippy (Tickets #4909, #5541, #5542).
Next up for Scott: Terminal (Ticket #5543), Gmail (Ticket #5544), and
Clock (Ticket #5545). Any application that can reasonable be written
as a single python source file is a good candidate for Pippy-ization,
which lets children view and customize the activity. This will
undoubtedly stress our handling of activity bundles in the Journal,
which arguably is a good spur in the side!

17. Wireless driver: Dave Woodhouse worked again on the libertas
wireless driver, a certain amount of sleeping and some frustration
that although he's fixed most of the known bugs in the driver, people
are still using some ancient kernel in their OS builds which is
entirely useless for testing purposes.

18. Etoys: Bert Freudenberg spent the first half of week in Kathmandu.
He observed and helped the very active OLPC and Etoys communities in
Nepal. Yoshiki Ohshima continued on fixing bugs on trac. These patches
will show up in the Update.1 stream at some point. Yoshiki also is
working on the packaging for non-OLPC environment. Takashi Yamamiya
started prototyping a simple presentation tool. Ted Kaehler and
Korakurider are looking at the translation of QuickGuide contents.
Scott Wallace and Yoshiki worked together to provide a better way to
report runtime errors.

19. Scratch: Brian Silverman (by phone), John Maloney,and Mitchel
Resnick came by the OLPC office this week to demonstrate Scratch
running on an XO (See [http://scratch.mit.edu/]). While it hasn't been
wholy "Sugarized" yet, it is already quite usable. John will be
posting a bundle on the wiki for those who'd like to explore it (and
provide feedback) at this stage.

20. Open hardware management: Chris Ball is working on a particularly
entrenched yet subtle bug in OHM's timing code at the moment.
(Richard Hughes confirms that he's been seeing it on non-OLPC
platforms too, all the way back to the beginning of OHM.)

21. Presence/sharing: Morgan Collett helped with testing the
sugar-shell-consumes-all-memory issue (Ticket #5532). (Thanks to
Sjoerd Simons for providing the avahi invocations to fake buddies on
the mesh.) Morgan helped some community people with Jabber questions
on the forums. There has been confusion about why the
ship2.jabber.laptop.org server doesn't work: Robert McQueen spoke with
people on IRC who were interested in trying ejabberd and helping us
work out why it was failing so badly. (There is now a server at
xochat.org that can be used instead of the default at
ship2.jabber.laptop.org. See the Sugar control panel page in the wiki
for instructions on how to configure your Jabber server.) Robert has
updated the Ejabberd configuration pages on the wiki with some updated
patches and clearer instructions.

Dafydd Harries spent most of the week trying to set up OpenFire on
jabber.laptop.org. He managed to export the user database from
Ejabberd and import it to OpenFire, but laptops don't seem to be able
to connect to the server successfully. He'll be investigating why this
is the case and suspect some sort of problem with our client code.
OpenFire developers have been keen to help, however.

Morgan looked into the HippoCanvas bug (Ticket #2351) that is
affecting scrolling of multiline Chat messages; he hasn't found a fix
for it yet. XO users who are annoyed with this bug have resorted to
sharing Write as a primitive chat tool instead.

Morgan also cleaned up some wiki documentation referring to Tubes and
Presence Service; while more documentation is needed, most of the
existing documentation was out of date (predating Salut for instance).

All the bits for Chat copying URLs to the clipboard (Ticket #5080) to
launch in Browse finally landed and work fine, although now it seems
we may be able to do it more directly after all with the Rainbow work
done to address Ticket #4909.

And Morgan has been working on the unreliability of buddy icons
clustering around their shared activity (Ticket #5368); it is still
unclear whether the best place to make a fix is in Sugar or Presence
Service. The problem arises when CurrentActivityChanged occurs before
ActivitiesChanged, so the buddy icon moves before the activity is
known about.

Sjoerd Simons investigated why avahi under some circumstances marks
records as failed a bit too easily, causing the "contacts flashing"
bug. He discovered that the passive-observation-of-failures
implementation was a bit too sensitive and created a patch to make it
less sensitive. The patch needs further testing in a crowded RF
environment like the OLPC headquarters to see if it solves the issue.

Guillaume Desmottes continue to investigate the stream-tubes problem
with Rainbow. The Telepathy side should be fixed in Update.1. He start
to implement/design peer-to-peer connections for stream tubes in
Gabble (Ticket #4047) and improved Gabble-tubes test coverage.

22. Sugar: Reinier Heeres worked on fixing a Read sharing issue
(Ticket #5365), a Calculate internationalization issue (Ticket #5319)
and adding ellipsis to long texts in palettes (Ticket #4562). He also
wrote a simple script to copy a regular file to the datastore/journal
that got extended with quite a bit more functionality by Phil
Bordelon. He tested previous fixes in Joyride and Update-1 and tried
to understand the memory leaks the sugar shell was showing.

Simon Schampijer focused on the browser, testing and implemented a
"solution" for the browser permission issue described here (See
[[Concurrent activity instances]]). Actually we
don't think anymore that copying the profile around is a good thing to
do; we think we should run the browser outside the container for
Update.1 (Ticket #5489). Michael Stone send an email to the mozilla
devs to start discussion with them about a long term solution.

23. Trac: Noah Kantrowitz visited Friday and helped improve our trac
system, adding bug dependencies and sketching out better workflow
features that can now be implemented in it. He also made some great
suggestions for the Support/Help pages.

24. Documentation: Mako Hill and SJ Klein packaged together a new
version of the Getting Started Guide for inclusion in the library on
the laptop itself. (Walter Bender wrote a new stylesheet to fit the
pages in the XO.)

=More News=
Laptop News is archived [http://laptop.media.mit.edu/laptopnews.nsf here] and [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/community-news/ here].

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@racepointgroup.com

=[[Milestones]]=
Latest milestones:
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All milestones can be found [[Milestones|here]].


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=[[PRESS|Press]]=
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}}
More articles can be found [[Press|here]].

=[[Video of the OLPC | Video]]=
Miscellaneous videos of the laptop can be found [[Video of the OLPC|here]].

* A Frappr Map of G1G1 recipients can be found at [http://www.frappr.com/?a=constellation_map&mapid=137440255169&src=flash_map&sig=visitor_map&src_mvid=137440332484&origin=unknown&ct=seemore]
* A collection of several videos can found at [http://www.olpc.tv OLPC.TV]
* IBM Podcast, Walter Bender on One Laptop per Child [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/podcast/dwi/cm-int042407.html]
* Ivan Krstić delivers a [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4285568518538296189 technical presentation of OLPC] at the Google TechTalk series
*60 Minutes, What if Every Child had a Laptop [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/20/60minutes/main2830058.shtml]
*CNN, Should Intel Fear $100 Laptop? [http://money.cnn.com/services/video/]
*Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/07/25/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-04/ Episode Four]
*Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/06/08/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-03/ Episode Three]
*Red Hat Magazine: Ins/ide One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/04/25/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-02/ Episode Two]
*Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/03/23/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-one/ Episode One]
*Portuguese lecture "Perspectivas do uso de laptops pelas crianças (e nas escolas)". Video in [http://www.cameraweb.unicamp.br/acervo/acervo.html Cameraweb Unicamp]
* Ivan Krstić delivers a [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4285568518538296189 technical presentation of OLPC] at the Google TechTalk series
*60 Minutes, What if Every Child had a Laptop [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/20/60minutes/main2830058.shtml]
*CNN, Should Intel Fear $100 Laptop? [http://money.cnn.com/services/video/]
*Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/07/25/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-04/ Episode Four]
*Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/06/08/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-03/ Episode Three]
*Red Hat Magazine: Ins/ide One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/04/25/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-02/ Episode Two]
*Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/03/23/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-one/ Episode One]
* OLPC [http://www.sf.tv/var/videoplayer.php?videourl=http%3A%2F%2Freal.xobix.ch%2Framgen%2Fsfdrs%2F10vor10%2F2007%2F10vor10_26012007.rm%3Fstart%3D0%3A05%3A20.498%26amp%3Bend%3D0%3A09%3A50.738 Video from Switzerland], 26.01.2007
*Interview with Nicholas Negroponte [http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/jan2006/clips/nicholas_negroponte.mov on the &100 Laptop]
*Presentation by Jim Gettys at [http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/03/07/one-laptop-per-child/ FOSDEM 2007]
*GLOBO- BRASIL: Crianças testam computador portátil/ [http://video.globo.com/Videos/Player/Noticias/0,,GIM607884-7823-CRIANCAS+TESTAM+COMPUTADOR+PORTATIL,00.html Students test the laptop]
*Mark Foster delivers presentation to [http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/061004-ee380-300.asx Stanford University]
* Technology Review [http://www.technologyreview.com/video/laptop Mini-Documentary][http://www.sf.tv/var/videoplayer.php?videourl=http%3A%2F%2Freal.xobix.ch%2Framgen%2Fsfdrs%2F10vor10%2F2007%2F10vor10_26012007.rm%3Fstart%3D0%3A05%3A20.498%26amp%3Bend%3D0%3A09%3A50.738 Video from Switzerland], 26.01.2007
*Interview with Nicholas Negroponte [http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/jan2006/clips/nicholas_negroponte.mov on the &100 Laptop]
*Presentation by Jim Gettys at [http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/03/07/one-laptop-per-child/ FOSDEM 2007]
*GLOBO- BRASIL: Crianças testam computador portátil/ [http://video.globo.com/Videos/Player/Noticias/0,,GIM607884-7823-CRIANCAS+TESTAM+COMPUTADOR+PORTATIL,00.html Students test the laptop]
*Mark Foster delivers presentation to [http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/061004-ee380-300.asx Stanford University]
* Technology Review [http://www.technologyreview.com/video/laptop Mini-Documentary]
* A Brief [http://www.radiofarda.com/Article/2007/01/04/f2_Interview-laptop.html 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

News archives

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OLPC videos

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