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=Laptop News 2008-03-01=


For coverage of recent OLPC updates, see our [[twitter]] feed and [http://blog.laptop.org OLPC blog].
1. Learning learning: Darah Tappitake and David Cavallo are preparing for March Learning Workshop with confirmed participations from Thailand, Mali, and the Committee for Democracy in Information Technology.


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. Lima: The Peru deployment continues to progress. 40K laptops arrived in Lima this week and are being sorted by distribution district and school in anticipation of delivery and activation. Ivan Krstić and Scott Ananain have been working with Hernán Pachas Magallanes on a mechanism to map CSV files into activation leases that will be useful across all of our deployments.


== Upcoming pieces ==
The first tranch of training in Peru begins on Monday. The 143 representatives from the regional distribution centers (UGELs) and 20 ministry of education personnel will attend a 5-day workshop on all aspects of the XO laptop, school server, and the learning models. John Watlington and Walter Bender are heading to Lima to help with final preparations over the weekend. In the following weeks, teachers and university students will also be attending workshops throughout the country.
; 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 ==
3. Assessment: David Cavallo, Edith Ackermann of the learning team, and Tony Earls and Maya Carlson of the Harvard School of Public Health are developing a new framework for assessment that goes beyond typical school approaches to enable accurate sensing of the overall mission of OLPC. In particular, the framework will enable a more scientific evaluation of the whole child and the community. The framework will also permit a more contextualized view as conditions and goals will vary from site to site (e.g. from Haiti to Uruguay to rural Peru to Afghanistan). Haiti will serve as the first instance for applying the framework.


'''[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.
4. Ceibal: Plans are moving forward for an OLPC/Ceibal children's festival in Uruguay in March. The festival will not only provide an environment for children to explore construction and collaboration on the laptop, but also a means for team development in Uruguay. We expect many guests from other countries to visit for both the festival and to visit the initial school in Vila Cardal.


Archives: [[OLPC:News/Archive 1|2005-2006]]
5. Sugar: The Sugar team has posted some new designs for the Home view, Journal, and Frame (See [[Design]]). The gist of the proposed changes is to swap the roles of the Frame and Home view in regard to activities: they'll be launched from the Home view and active activities will be carried from view to view on the Frame. The intention is to make it easier to issue invitation and notifications and manage the growing number of activities in our builds (Peru will have more than 30 activities loaded on the laptop by default).
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 2|2007]]
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 3|2008]]
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 4|2009-10]]


=== Translations ===
6. Wikireaders: A dozen different development projects related to wikireaders are now signed up to our new wikireader@lists mailing list, to work out how to coordinate Google Gears, pyxpcom, and existing python and php codebases to generate and browse readers. An old "static content" project on Wikipedia is being revived around the same themes.
Sporadic translations of news archives from 2008 and earlier can be found here:
: [[OLPC:News/lang-de|German]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-es|Spanish]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ja|Japanese]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ko|Korean]]


== [[OLPC:Videos|OLPC videos]] ==
7. Phil Carrizzi, a professor at the Kendall College of Art in Grand Rapids has created an XO viewfinder on his FDM machine (See [http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/2225021496/in/set-72157603547309133/]).
For a history of videos about OLPC and the XO, see [http://olpc.tv olpc.tv] and [[OLPC:Videos]].


== Sugar news ==
8. Help wanted: There have been several requests for "typing tutor" software on the XO coming from the various pilots. If anyone is interested in breathing some life into the Typing Tutor Activity, please contact the devel list.
Walter continues to post summaries of Sugar development '''[http://walterbender.org/?cat=3 on his blog]'''.
9. Support: Adam Holt reports that discussions are under way regarding setting up repair centers with Moraine Valley Community College (we gave them 12 broken XO laptops towards prototyping a repair center) and IMSA.edu.


== Press ==
Darah Tappitake discussed the long-term challenges of volunteerism at last Sunday's support volunteers meeting.
For an archive of OLPC media coverage, see the [[OLPC:Press/2005-2008|2005-2008 press archives]].


== Past announcements ==
Adam worked with Sandy Culver and Brightstar on shipping out outstanding RMA machines and Fedex "undeliverables"; and he worked with Alan Claver who's resolving dozens of escalated support tickets daily.
Developed through 2011 by the Racepoint Group, OLPC's ''pro bono'' PR firm.


* 2008-08-06 : [[Media:OLPC-Asia.doc|One Laptop per Child expands its presence in Asia]] with project leads in India and China
10. Meshing: This week we held a tech meeting in Cambridge to work on issues of scaling our collaboration technology. In attendance were OLPC staff, Dave Woodhouse and Marco Presenti-Gritti of Red Hat, Dafydd Harries and Guillaume Desmottes of Collabora, and Javier Cardona of Cozybit. Several new bugs were identified and characterized; some short-term fixes were adopted; testing of the fixes was started. The longer-term strategy for achieving more scaling was discussed extensively. The actual characterization of the result awaits testing in a quieter network environment—there are over 100 access points that can be detected from the OLPC office, one ofthe most severe network environments anyone has ssen.
* 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.
* 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]


11. Custom builds: Scott Anaian and Michael Stone worked with Daniel Grajales Santana of Telmex and Hernán of the Ministry of Education in Peru on developing a customization key (See [[Customization_key]]) to create builds for Mexico and Peru.


12. FOSDEM: Simon Schampijer, Tomeu Vizoso, Benjamin Berg, and Bernardo Innocenti attended FOSDEM, a European meeting for Free and Open Source Software Developers, in Brussels over the weekend (See [http://www.codewiz.org/wiki/FosdemOlpcGroupTagged.jpg]). They improvised a booth at the GNOME stand to answer questions and offer their machines for people to try out. Besides questions about hardware specifications and the current status of the project the visitors were mostly interested in where to buy the laptop. Thanks to the GNOME people for sharing their facilities and helping answering questions.


FOSDEM was as well place for OLPC-Europe's (See [[OLPC_Europe]]) kickoff meeting where the idea behind this initiative was outlined. The different grassroots projects and European OLPC communities (Greece, Netherlands, Bulgaria and Germany) gave an overview about their work and goals and described the efforts already made.

13. Sugar: Tomeu, Benjamin and Simon stayed in Brussels for a few days where they worked together on the XO laptop. Tomeu started work on the infrastructure needed for adding keyboard bindings (accelerators) to activities; he discussed with Simon about the best way to implement the UI for the control panel.

14. Power management: Chris Ball released a version of OHM that asks NetworkManager to rescan and reconnect when coming out of sleep—amongst other things, this should make sure that we don't continue to use the link-local mesh after the laptops arrive at school in the morning.

Andres Salomon worked more work on framebuffer code, testing, and debugging a lid close bug with Jordan Crouse of AMD and Richard Smith.

15. Localization: Sayamindu Dasgupta reports that we have a new Pootle project for Khmer—volunteers are welcome. Sayamindu is also testing out an experimental system to generate language packs for the languages that are in Pootle. (Current packs are in http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/langpacks/). Users simply need to run them in an XO (emulated or real) laptop and the latest translations will automagically get installed. The primary focus now is to enable translators to test out their translations more easily.

There has been much discussion about how to localize Turtle Art, which is currently in English and Spanish only. The issue is that Turtle Art is rendered using GIF files. Alexander Todorov is exploring using ImageMagic to generate the GIFs from Pootle. Something similar could be done using the Scheme extensions for The Gimp. Tomeu has suggested that we design icons for the program blocks and use rollovers for the text. (See http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3585 for details.)

We've finalized the keyboard design for Kreyòl thanks to the efforts of Guy Serge Pompi, Michel DeGraff, Arjun Sarwal, Dale Joachim, and David Cavallo. Bernie helped to finalize Italian as well. Both keyboard layouts have been sent to Quanta for mass production.

Thanks to the efforts of e have Mike Dawson, Dr. Habib Khan, Waqas Toor, Salman Minhas, Ebtihaj Obaidi, and Usman Mansour Ansari, we have almost finalized a new layout for Afghanistan that is compatible with both Pashto and Dari. (See http://wiki.laptop.org/images/b/b5/Pashto-v2.png for details.)

We have been making similar advances in Khmer. Chea Sok Hour and Noy Shoung have provided invaluable guidance (Please see http://wiki.laptop.org/images/c/c2/Khmer-v2.png).

16. Jams: Fred Benenson of NY free culture held a jam at [http://itp.nyu.edu/itp/flash/Home NYU ITP], with ~30 attendees. They are planning for a larger jam at the end of the month hosted at UNICEF, and introducing a wider group to the XO laptops. Gian Pablo Villamil demoed [http://www.villamil.org/?p=106 Processing and Arduino] running on the OLPC. (http://wiki.freeculture.org/NYU_OLPC_Jam_Session).

Mel Chua and Christopher Fabian are helping organize a story-telling jam March 28-30. Building on the Journalism Jam from last fall and our experience to date with Our Stories, but also telling the stories of people of all ages interested in storytelling and in OLPC. They expect ~150 people (See [[Story_Jam_New_York]]).

17. Collections: Erik Zachte has tools for making compact Tomeraider collections that deal intelligently with images.

18. Health: Chris Leonard, a medical researcher, is organizing material related to animals and agriculture. He and his wife are both editors and writers, and he has been working with a few people on an index for an animal health collection (See [[Animal health]]).

19. Music: Our music collections are growing : this week the full 9GB of sound samples from the "Boulanger" collection can be found on dev.laptop.org. Andriani Ferti is working with Charlotte Landrum, director of the Gardner Museum podcast series, which will be contributing their concerts in some form for use by our schools.

20. Pakistan: Habib reports that the first formal contact with the Government of Pakistan was successfully established this week through the delivering of a presentation to a group of 80 mid-level managers, who gathered for the purpose at the Academy of Educational Planning and Management in Islamabad from across Pakistan. Habib made a three-hour detailed presentation on all facets of OLPC with a key focus on the educational aspects, implications for policy makers and budget.He also dedicated ninety minutes for special hands-on training/familiarization on 20 XO laptops that he carries with him for that purpose. The event left a magical impact on all present.
21. XOctoPlug: Resulting from extensive school implementation experience Carla Gomez Monroy presented the idea for an 8 in 1 power supply to maximize safety, convenience and battery life. Carla named it the XOctoPlug (See [[Peripherals/XOctoPlug]]). The first prototypes arrived at OLPC this week. The design comes from close collaboration between Carla and Joshua Seal of Belkin. It is anticipated the final design will incorporate magnetic quick release connectors to prevent tripping and be fully sealed to maximize robustness.

22. Waveplace: Timothy Falconer and William Stelzer report on St John and Haiti Pilots ([http://waveplace.com/news/newsletter/web.jsp?id=4]).

23. The OLPC Learning Club-DC met in the Capitol Hill offices of Nortel Networks last Saturday. Attendees of every generation got technical help with developer's keys, meshed with a school server and shared ideas on software projects. Host Michael Connet staged a teleconference with Nortel staffers in Ottawa. Student videographers captured footage for a future installment of LearnIT. (See http://www.olpclearningclub.org and http://www.nortellearnit.org for details.)

24. Yesterday, 29 February, was Seymour Papert's 20th birthday!!

=More News=
Laptop News is archived [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].

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==[[Milestones]]==
Latest milestones:
{{:Milestones}} <!-- Translators, you can either include the english version or the translated version -- it does NOT work with redirects -->
All milestones can be found [[Milestones|here]].


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==[[PRESS|Press]]==
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{{: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]
* 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]
* 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

Weekly OLPC News postings to the community-news mailing list give updates on recent work. Weekly summaries were also posted on-wiki during 2008. Weekly postings to the list were put on hold at the start of 2009, and started again in 2010.

Archives: 2005-2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009-10

Translations

Sporadic translations of news archives from 2008 and earlier can be found here:

German | Spanish | Japanese | Korean

OLPC videos

For a history of videos about OLPC and the XO, see olpc.tv and OLPC:Videos.

Sugar news

Walter continues to post summaries of Sugar development on his blog.

Press

For an archive of OLPC media coverage, see the 2005-2008 press archives.

Past announcements

Developed through 2011 by the Racepoint Group, OLPC's pro bono PR firm.

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