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=Laptop News 2007-12-30=


For coverage of recent OLPC updates, see our [[twitter]] feed and [http://blog.laptop.org OLPC blog].
1. Give One Get One: The G1G1 program ended December 31, 2007. G1G1 has
not only made it possible to seed the launch of programs in Haiti,
Rwanda, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Mongolia, and Afghanistan, but we have
also greatly broadened the community of participation in the project.
The community has already jumped in to help: the level of activity in
our forums, IRC, email lists, wiki, etc. has risen dramatically over
the past few weeks. G1G1 participants have asked lots of questions—and have
uncovered some new bugs—but they also have lots of answers—and have
submitted some new patches. The community model seems to be scaling.


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.
Many thanks to Hilary Meserole and the tireless efforts from the teams
at Pentagram, Nurun, Eleven, Patriot, and Brightstar.


== Upcoming pieces ==
2. Mary Lou Jepsen: Mary Lou's last day at OLPC is December 31. She
; Claudia
will be continuing to consult with us on a number of different fronts
: Learning Chat piece: 278 words, ready now. [[File:Learning Chat.docx]]
as she chases after her next miracle in display technology. Mary Lou
: 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.
was OLPC employee Number One, both in terms of when she joined the
: This can become a 4-part series.
organization and in terms of the breadth and depth of her
; Antonio: Homo docens: 500+ words, Antonio approved my edits. [[File:Homo docens JLedits.docx]]
contributions. Thank you and best of luck with your adventures in a
: 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.
new role and new year.
: 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 ==
3. Embedded controller (EC): Richard Smith has tested a battery EEPROM
dumping feature recently added by Andres Salomon: it seems to work
great. Richard has written crontab scripts and "phone home" scripts
for inclusion in joyride builds, with the intent to include them in an
upcoming release to build an anonymous database of battery
performance. These scripts will sample the power used every five
minutes and log it. They only sample when the battery is charging or
discharging. The hope is to gather a composite view of battery
performance under realistic conditions of use.


'''[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.
Richard noticed that on the community-development list there are at
least two reports of the EC going "terminal", meaning that on boot
they get the error message: "EC problem. Remove all power and
restart." We need to get those machines to Cambridge to investigate
further.


Archives: [[OLPC:News/Archive 1|2005-2006]]
Another issue found on the community-list are reports from a few
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 2|2007]]
people about their batteries not charging. Richard says this would not
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 3|2008]]
surprise him if they were NiMH batteries, but G1G1 machines have the
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 4|2009-10]]
LiFePo batteries. He did had one person run "logbat" and send him the
results: the EC reads the battery fine and is attempting to charge the
battery but no current ever goes into the battery. Again, we need to
get these machines to Cambridge as we haven't seen this behavior
before.


=== Translations ===
4. Open Firmware: Mitch Bradley continued to provide G1G1 customer
Sporadic translations of news archives from 2008 and earlier can be found here:
support, for example, chasing down some problems with SD cards. He
: [[OLPC:News/lang-de|German]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-es|Spanish]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ja|Japanese]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ko|Korean]]
also added the ability to delete JFFS2 files from Open Firmware and
fixed Tickets #5717, #5585, and #5727, all improvements to the overall
OFW performance and reliability. Preparations continue on OFW for the
Intel prototype XO board.


== [[OLPC:Videos|OLPC videos]] ==
5. Wireless firmware: Marvell released firmware version 5.110.20.p49
For a history of videos about OLPC and the XO, see [http://olpc.tv olpc.tv] and [[OLPC:Videos]].
which addresses Ticket #5194. With this firmware release, all known
major low-level bugs have been addressed. With the wireless driver
that's in the current ship builds, we see locking errors under heavy
load from which the driver recovers automatically. David Woodhouse is
doing a major rewrite of the driver which should eventually address
that issue.


== Sugar news ==
6. Software ECOs: From time to time there may be critical bug fixes
Walter continues to post summaries of Sugar development '''[http://walterbender.org/?cat=3 on his blog]'''.
that must be released between our regularly scheduled releases. These
may occur due to security issues, from unexpected hardware problems,
or the discovery of latent bugs that affect large numbers of users.
We've started a page in wiki discuss the software engineering change
order (ECO) process (See [[Operating_system_release_procedures]]).


== Press ==
7. Support: The past week has been a busy one for Adam Holt and the
For an archive of OLPC media coverage, see the [[OLPC:Press/2005-2008|2005-2008 press archives]].
OLPC support team. Adam has organized a team of 30 support volunteers
to comprehensively answer help@laptop.org tickets. (Each ticket is an
ongoing email conversation with a donor/client.) The volunteer team is
working hard, but keeping up with the support load. Part of the
process includes the compilation of a Support FAQ (See [[Support_FAQ]]). Adam is also organizing a
"virtual call center" based on asterisk.org VoIP. Matthew O'Gorman is
helping finalize the server. Callers will access a local US number in
the 617 area code. It will be informal, but we hope it will provide a
critical outreach to those users who need it most. We hope to complete
testing and possibly an initial rollout within the coming week.


== Past announcements ==
Please everyone recruit your XO-aware friends as:
Developed through 2011 by the Racepoint Group, OLPC's ''pro bono'' PR firm.
(1) "charming" volunteers to answer phones; and
(2) "perfectionist" volunteers to help organize our wiki pages.


* 2008-08-06 : [[Media:OLPC-Asia.doc|One Laptop per Child expands its presence in Asia]] with project leads in India and China
You can email Adam regarding your talents, motivations, and a phone
* 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.
number at "holt AT laptop DOT org". Thanks!
* 2008-05-15 : [[Media:XP-on-XO.doc|Microsoft Windows XP is now available on the XO laptop]]
* 2008-05-03 : [[Media:Kane-appointment.doc|One Laptop per Child appoints Charles Kane as President and Chief Operating Officer]]
* 2008-01-07 : [[Media:G1G1-results.doc|One Laptop per Child Giving Campaign Raises $35 Million]] in 2007
* 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]


There will be an "Organizing Sunday" meeting among our volunteers on
30 December, 4PM EST. All interested parties can join if they email
Adam first.


Noah Kantrowitz has helped to organize the RT system so that
volunteers' workflow is more efficient. Instant-response RTFM entries
(canned answers auto-pasted into emails) are growing too.


[[Category:OLPC]]
Chih-yu Chao is helping Adam to answer questions from G1G1 recipients;
she has noticed that many parents are asking whether our browser
support Flash/Java websites, an area we need to improve upon.

Michael Burns of the Oregon State Open Source Lab has been working
each night improving and growing the Community Support forum (See
http://olpc.osuosl.org/), which is now exceeding 1,000 posts; 200
registered users have answered hundreds of first-time computer
questions from G1G1 donors. There is already a growing community of
users helping other users on the site. The site includes a live (IRC)
chat (See http://olpc.osuosl.org/chat), a feature that works from any
computer, including directly from the XO, and a volunteers map (See
http://olpc.osuosl.org/forum/phoogle_map.php) that lets developers,
enthusiasts and users put a push-pin next to their home town.

8. Etoys: 2007 was a busy year for the Etoys team: they made over 700
patches this calendar year. In addition to these code changes, there
is new content: examples, help contents, and documentation. Etoys was
more or less stable and mature before 2007, but the effort in the year
made it even more stable, useful and be fit to the XO platform.
Notable improvements and contributions include: sane mathematical
operator precedence by Yoshiki Ohshima; better natural language
translation by Takashi Yamamiya and Korakurider; display scaling by
Andreas Raab; an event recording system (called Event Theatre) by
Scott Wallace; a camera interface by Diego Gomez Deck; the World
Stethoscope by Kazuhiro Abe; the Quick Guide help system by Kathleen
Harness, Ted Kaehler and Yoshiki; drag and drop by Takashi; IPv6
support by Ian Piumarta and Michael Rueger; documentation by Alan Kay,
Kim Rose and Rebecca Cannara; and numerous fixes and usability
improvements from the Etoys team and community, including
contributions by Karl Ramberg and Marcus Denker.

In 2007, there were many deadlines in short successions, putting
pressure on the team to deliver stable versions—pushing the team
towards a conservative approach to development. Many big changes were
punted. In hindsight, perhaps delivering some unstable versions with
bigger changes would have been better strategy. On the other hand, it
is worth to mention that Etoys is one of the most reliable packages
over the course of XO development and has seen extensive use in most
of the school trials. Kudos to Bert Freudenberg, who maintains the
Etoys integration with Sugar (Bert not only led the effort to
integrate Etoys with Sugar; he also contributed Sugar's overall
development).

There were various Etoys-based activities proposed: a programming
tutorial called Bots Inc by Stéphane Ducasse; an interactive geometry
program called Dr Geo II by Hilaire Hernandez; and education contents
suite by Luke Gorrie, Bryan Berry, and the OLPC Nepal developers.
"Conservativeness" was a major issue when discussing the possible
inclusion of Dr Geo II into the base Etoys image; accommodating such
code in a graceful way is a challenge for 2008.

9. Translation: One of the last pieces in our Pootle deployment is now
in place: a mechanism to update PO template files for each module
automatically. Sayamindu Dasgupta has fine tuned the script that does
this updating to change POT files only if the strings have changed.
(This work is based on Damned Lies, the GNOME translation management
system). This helps avoid the redundant updating of PO files. The
string-change detection feature will also be useful in the future to
detect string-freeze breakages and also to notify translators when new
strings are added to a module.

This week also saw the first package release of the Update 1 branch to
pick up new translators. Thanks to the excellent effort put in by the
translators, the Update.1 project (which consisted of the Update 1
branches of the Sugar, Journal activity, Record activity and Browse
activity) is, on an average, 50% translated for each language.
Languages that have more than 90% of their strings translated are:

• Urdu (100%)
• Nepali (100%)
• Dutch (100%)
• Chinese (Taiwan) (100%)
• Bengali (100%)
• Arabic (100%)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (99%)
• Portuguese (99%)
• Macedonian (99%)
• Russian (98%)
• Greek (98%)
• French (98%)
• Chinese (China) (98%)
• German (96%)
• Mongolian (94%)

The focus has shifted to the master branches once again, although
language teams are encouraged to update their translations in Update.1
project (there will be another package release for Update.1 that would
pick up any new translations).

In the middle of the week, Sayamindu also managed to track down a
problem in Pootle that was holding up the work being done by the Urdu
team. The issue was being caused by a corrupt stats file in the
Pootle-Urdu directory.

10. Touchpad: Bernardo Innocenti spent much of the week testing a
solution to the "jumpy mouse" touchpad bug. We'll soon be pushing out
a patch that should cover the majority of touchpad problems.

11. Journal: Reinier Heeres wrote a script to copy files from the
Journal to the Linux file system (Ticket #5571). This got extended by
Phil Bordelon, just like the copy-to-journal script. Reinier also
fixed some equation parser issues in the Calculator (Ticket #5734) and
an issue with Browse not exiting when a keep error occurred (Ticket
#5493).

12. Debian: Ivan Krstić is overhauling the OLPC server infrastructure,
but also found the time to put together an "unofficial" etch/xfce4
build. It includes Firefox, Thunderbird, a suite of development tools
(python, git, gcc, gdb, flex, bison, automake, autoconf, libtool), a
music player (XMMS), IRC client (irssi) and a graphical wireless AP
selector. The entire build takes up 250MB of flash. Ivan optimized the
Firefox window layout to maximum screen estate and configured a number
of keyboard shortcuts.

13. Cow power: Arjun Sarwal along with the Mumbai team made some good
progress on the cow-power system for charging the XO. They made some
changes in the electrical design (e.g., using an alternator now
instead of a dynamo) and they have a plan regarding the mechanical
design based upon a better understanding of what are readily available
parts. The current setup easily charges two laptops, however with the
planned mechanical design changes, they hope to charge at least ten
laptops simultaneously.

14. Games: Don Hopkins has been working on the new Micropolis codebase
(See http://www.DonHopkins.com/home/micropolis). He has made a web
server out of the Micropolis python module for testing and has
modularized python code for tile and cellular automation rendering.

15. OurStories: Pablo Flores reports that Uruguay will start
collecting stories in late January in different localities, like their
recent work in Sarand Grande (See
http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com/2007/12/day-of-activities-in-sarand-grande.html).
Announcements of the site in Spanish and Nigerian languages are being
prepared for late January.

16. Library: Lauren Klein has been working on interfaces to make
generating content bundles easier, starting with forms to generate
bundle metadata. Next up are automatic bundlers that check and
generate manifests and metadata from uploaded tars and zips (See
http://crank.laptop.org/~lauren/libraryInfo/).

17. Installing activities: OLPC Austria is improving their "xo-get"
command-line script for downloading and installing activities. (The
script is a complement to the current process of clicking on .xo files
from the Browse activity.) They are making it work with the activities
found on the [[Activities]] page, having added a
field there to include tags (See
http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Xo-get and
http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Xo-get/Repository).

18. OLPC Communities: Holger Levsen, Aaron Kaplan, and others from
Austrian and German OLPC groups spent the last days of the week at the
24C3 conference in Berlin, Germany. John Crispin and the OpenWRT
contingent showed off OpenWRT booting on an XO and let a growing
number of XOs share their space. At one point there were over 20 XOs
in use in the area, most in the hands of developers and early G1G1
arrivals.

OLPC Switzerland is having its first meeting January 15 in Bern,
organized by Michele Notari (See [[OLPC_Switzerland]]).

Greg DeKoenigsberg and Jack Aboutbol are starting to organize a social
and musical OLPC event in New York City for next August. They are
presenting a proposal to the NYC parks and recreation committee next
Friday.

19. Developer community: Almost 1000 developers are active in our Trac
system (http://dev.laptop.org). There are thousands more contributors
to wiki.laptop.org and to various fori, mailing lists, IRCs, etc. This
participation is invaluable to the success of OLPC mission. We'd like
to thank, among others:

a-12, aalam, abelay, abrar.momin, aconbere, adeighton, adetola,
admford, adricnet, aegis, aenertia, aferti, afranke, agdelma, ahmad,
ajax, akauppi, akeemolabiyi, alagu, albertcahalan, aleph, alexandre,
alexl, alfonsodg, als, altemusm, alxx, ambros, amitgogna, andic,
andreasraab, andre.mossinato, andrey, angel, angieklein123, angus,
anna chang, annegentle, ant, antoninoiacono, antonio correia,
antoniojf, approvalforupdate, aprodan, arangelangov, arauto,
argento78, ariana, arjs, arnd, arnold, aroscha, artpro, arvinliu,
ashish, ashsong, assim, astein, atodorov, aturist, aumana, avocade,
avoine, awjrichards, awong9702, axboe, bamdad, bananascanner, barbolo,
barry, bart massey, basil, bbaston, bbbush, bcavagnolo, bcsaller,
bdoin, beaubrewer, beauty, beckerde, behdad, behnam, bemasc, benzea,
bernie, bert, bertl, bfcatfriends, biarm, bigbaaadbob, bigwally,
bilboed, billaspell, billjank, bill_mcgonigle, billy, bjfreeman,
bkublik, blahedo, blanchet, blankverse, blix, blizzard, bluefoxicy,
blueyed, bmcarnes, bnardone, bob, bobbysmith007, bobkeyes,
boujelbenhichem, brainrecall, briandorsey, briandorsey, bronson,
bryan.ma, bss, bsugarse, btate, budbird, buendia, byodo, c9damico,
cafl, cak, calyth, campbell, candy, candy lu, candy_man, cannonjt,
carl2, carla, carlfk, carlofalciola, carrano, cavallo, cbramsey,
cdoty, cdurrett, cgalpin, chaos, chatworthy, cheetahman, chenz,
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morgs, morningstar, moshez, motherhoose, mpal, mpdevine, mrdomino,
m.scott, msevior, mstone, mtklein, mucca, muccini, murielgodoi,
murray, murrays, musallam, mvirkkil, myles, mylesb, nacholudo,
nalrawahi, nandoa, nasa, nat, nathalia.sautchuk, naustin, ncorrare,
nelhage, nelson, neptune, newsham, ni762428, nibhatish, nicomy,
ninjakitten, nirmal, nitin, nnorwitz, nolambar, nornagon, nrp, nuke,
nuwdle, obc_spike, oeka, ohm, ohshima, okada, olafura, ollybetts,
ondal, openspark, orospakr, osbornisle, osmosys, otakuj462, ozwald,
pacease, pamela.dallas, pascal, path, paul, paulproteus, pavel, pavel,
pd, peiwei, pekayatt, pengo, pepboy, pepboy, perlhacker, peter,
peter.lorenzen, petria, pezhman, phil, philipmac, phollings, php5,
pierre, pierreossman, ping, pmj, pnasrat, polvi, ponafarioli, power
guo, pr3d4t0r, prasanna, prashant.thakkar, probono, pvanhoof,
pwiltsey, pwr, py_geek, pzelenka, qq, quantumcat, quantumg, quozl,
rabeeh, rafaelortiz, ramaseshanr, raven, ravikondamuru, ravualhemio,
ray.tseng, rbh00, rbhagwat, rblengio, rbwjrw, rcauk, rchokshi,
rdebath, rdike, rdobson, rebecca, rebecca, rebecca allen, rebeccag,
rebeccagettys, redpawn, reg, regan20, reillysl, rejon, reservedoc,
retired_techie, retroplumido, reynaldo, rgs, rharrison, rhindak,
rhindak, richard, richie.wang, riv, rj_dean, rkevans, rminnich,
robertfadel, robot101, robsta, rock, rodarvus, roel, roozbeh, rorrim,
roscherfr, roubert, roy, rsavoye, rsmith, rsriniva, rtlm, ruby,
russnelson, rwh, ry313323, ryankelln, ryant5000, ryebo1, sabu, sam,
samuel bizien, sandeepdutta, sankarshan, santanu, sarahmoodoo,
saramah, satch89450, satyajeet, sayamindu, sbelter, scomst,
scott_kirkwood, scottwallace, sdalvi, seberg, segher, seph,
seralewise, sero189, shailen, shang, shankar, sharon, shekay, shenki,
shiu, sholton, sierrahombre, simon, simon, simosx, sirjuanlu, sj, sjg,
sjoerd, skeezix, skiboo, skierpage, slasc, sleet01, smcv, smetz52,
smohan, spacey, spditner, splinux, sprezzatura, ssb22, ssc, sssss,
steck, steeg, stepheneb, steveb, steve fullerton, stevew, stevo,
stoecker, stoutbigred, stressyndrome, sturnfie, subbu, sulmanminhas,
sunny, sverma, svu, swagle, sxpert, syd, sylvinus, s.zytkiewicz, t3,
tags07, takashi, talmage, tamichan, tannewt, tbpringle, te294177,
tedch, ted.juan, tedkaehler, teefal, term, terry su, tess, testing,
teus, tf, theperturbator, thiago_s, timbutler, tim.millerdyck, titus,
tomeu, tomhannen, tonsofpcs, toygmail, trapdoor, trevor, tribleyl,
trobertson, tsylla, tudd, turadg, tushards, twinkle, uden, ufg,
uflchamp, ujwal2, usman ansari, usman.ansari, uwog, vadim, vance.ke,
vandien, vasukrishnan, vbhunt, vegpuff, vgiasolli, victorchao,
victor-y, vjohn, vmb, voden, vorburger, vradok, wad, wadeb, walter,
wangwebbxydd, waqastoor, warp, watchhillfarm, wcohen, weixiang,
wenmi01, we.three.tees, wildem, williamb68, wiswaud, wkraimer, wmb,
wmfwlr, wolf, wolfgang, wvbailey, wwworkshop shannon, wwworkshop
terrence, wybiral, xardox, xatzipe, xavi, xiang.wei, xorAxAx, yani,
ychao, yhosoai, yosch, youssef, ypod, ywwg, zack, zakarpatska,
zapador, zarcher, znmeb, zogger50, zoltanthegypsy, zwl821022, and
zztopd.

Best wishes for the new year.

20. Special thanks: As mentioned, the contributions to the project
have been numerous and diverse. However, I'd like to acknowledge one
contributor who has quietly been playing a central role in perhaps the
most critical user-facing aspect of the OLPC effort, Sugar. Red Hat's
Marco Pesenti Gritti seems to never rest; he never tires of answering
questions, writing patches, and engaging in design discussions. His
productivity is monumental; his insights are invaluable.

=More News=
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=[[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

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