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To contribute a story or news idea, see the '''[[OLPC:Newsroom|OLPC newsroom]]'''.
1. The OLPC Board passed a resolution for the Luxembourg-based SES Global
to become its newest member. SES Astra and SES Americom will serve as
worldwide partners to provide satellite connectivity and smart ground
solutions for broadcasting, data, and Internet connections. SES Americom
CEO Ed Horowitz—a close collaborator for nearly 20 years ago—will represent
SES on the Board.


For coverage of recent OLPC updates, see our [[twitter]] feed and [http://blog.laptop.org OLPC blog].
2. Nicholas spoke at AMD's Global Vision Conference, Agents of Change:
Driving the Power of Innovation in Pasadena. The meeting featured a
blue-ribbon cast of speakers and an audience that included many old friends
from the Media Lab, including Lego, Dreamworks, Sun, and many others.


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.
3. Alan Kay, Kim Rose and the eToys team finished up a two-week visit to
the OLPC office in Cambridge. They made significant progress both in
porting their environment onto the Laptop and integrating the user
interface into the Sugar environment. They also provided valuable feedback
to the OLPC software team.


== Upcoming pieces ==
4. Display: LCD-B (with twice the reflectance of LCD-A) is still on track
; Claudia
for a 25 September demo. The reflective-mode resolution is 1200×900;
: Learning Chat piece: 278 words, ready now. [[File:Learning Chat.docx]]
resolution in color mode (backlight on) may be higher than 800×600. A White
: 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.
Paper is being written to discuss the resolution of color mode.
: 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 ==
5. Software team: David Zeuthen will be leaving the Red Hat OLPC team. He's
going back to work for Red Hat's desktop team, focusing on ongoing HAL
work, which will eventually filter back and benefit One Laptop per Child.
He will be replaced by John Palmieri, who comes from the desktop team. John
is one of the upstream maintainers of the D-Bus program, one of the
fundamental components in the Laptop software. He will be focusing on
general distribution issues and assisting Dan Williams and Marco Gritti
with working on Sugar.


'''[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.
6. Audio: Csound—the core of the music system on the Laptop—is now part of
Fedora Extras. The latest image builds include Csound in the distribution.
There are still a few outstanding patches being prepared by Barry Vercoe
and Simon Schampijer to update to the latest Csound.


Archives: [[OLPC:News/Archive 1|2005-2006]]
7. Security: Ivan Kristić attended the HITB 2006 Security and Hacking
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 2|2007]]
conference in Malaysia to review the Laptop security model with the experts
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 3|2008]]
convening there. Meanwhile, Simson Garfinkel has been doing interviews of
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 4|2009-10]]
everyone involved in the project and based on that output (the first draft
of which has just now become available) we will be able to make the changes
required to the OS to support the recommendations. Chris Blizzard has also
been gathering expertise inside of Red Hat to help consult on Laptop
security.


=== Translations ===
8. CAFE and DCON: David Woodhouse is preparing to test the CAFE FPGA
Sporadic translations of news archives from 2008 and earlier can be found here:
hardware. Once that is done and comments are made on the NAND driver, the
: [[OLPC:News/lang-de|German]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-es|Spanish]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ja|Japanese]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ko|Korean]]
changes should be ready to push upstream into the kernel. David also made a
new mtd-utils (utilities for managing memory technology) release and put it
into Extras, which means we are able to report information about
compression savings during file-system creation. This feature will be very
important when we are ready to make our push to get the size of the OS
down, since we can know how much space we're saving with any particular
file or package. David has also been assisting Jordan Crouse of AMD
completing the kernel-level DCON code. The kernel changes required are
largely complete. It is an important first step.


== [[OLPC:Videos|OLPC videos]] ==
9. Power management: Jordan has taken very preliminary power measurements
For a history of videos about OLPC and the XO, see [http://olpc.tv olpc.tv] and [[OLPC:Videos]].
of the Laptop, with and without the DCON, with and without the color
display; it is a starting point for the power management work which is now
starting up. Measurement is particularly important, and we have been
exploring ways to make these measurements, which will be key to making
software progress and preventing regressions. Our power consumption has
started to be noticed in the Linux community:
http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/tag/olpc. It will only improve from
here.


== Sugar news ==
10. Touchpad: Jim Gettys reports that the dual-mode touch pad is now
Walter continues to post summaries of Sugar development '''[http://walterbender.org/?cat=3 on his blog]'''.
working properly on the Laptop. The pieces of the puzzle were put together
across the entire team and finally nailed by Vance Ke and and Ray Tseng at
Quanta, who identified some incorrectly set registers (used to enable the
PS/2 ports interrupts). This has highlighted the value of the PRS tools
(preferred register setting tools) of AMD, which we had not properly
appreciated to audit the internal register settings of the Geode. Mitch
Bradley is working his way through the settings to verify that the Geode's
internal registers are all properly set.


== Press ==
11. BIOS: LZMA compression was added to LinuxBIOS this week; this is a much
For an archive of OLPC media coverage, see the [[OLPC:Press/2005-2008|2005-2008 press archives]].
more efficient compression algorithm than we had been using and freed
significant flash space, which, of course, we can (and did) immediately
fill: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger added the Libertas wireless driver, its
firmware, and TCP/IPv4. We'd like to be able to use wireless for
installation in the field; whether all this can fit into the serial BIOS
ROM—the most robust solution—or will require additional space on NAND
flash, is still not known. Another issue with RAM timing was diagnosed and
fixed in LinuxBIOS this week; this one was was, ironically, observed only
when running the machine slower.


== Past announcements ==
12. Diagnostics: Mitch has been working on a diagnostic framework for the
Developed through 2011 by the Racepoint Group, OLPC's ''pro bono'' PR firm.
Laptop, both for hardware failures and as a framework for testing the
myriad of power domains (See
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_Power_Domains). Each and every domain
must be properly tested before we can commit the hardware to mass
production and this testing needs to be complete before we are likely to
have completed all the Linux work for power management. Mitch now has
drivers for NAND flash (both GX and CaFe), GX frame buffer, USB mass
storage, keyboard, and ethernet. The diagnostic can run in any
environment—from ROM as a LinuxBIOS payload, booted from USB via LinuxBIOS,
or booted from USB via Insyde BIOS.


* 2008-08-06 : [[Media:OLPC-Asia.doc|One Laptop per Child expands its presence in Asia]] with project leads in India and China
13. UI: Walter Bender and Chris Blizzard meet with the Pentagram team about
* 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.
the latest user-interface design. We discussed various issues including the
* 2008-05-15 : [[Media:XP-on-XO.doc|Microsoft Windows XP is now available on the XO laptop]]
journal and how the touchpad might be interfaced.
* 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]


14. Sugar update: Marco Gritti has implemented the basic grid design and
the zoom. In the Mesh View we are currently displaying only the activity
icons, but it's possible to join activities. In the Friends View you can
add and remove friends and you can invite your friends to activities by
picking actions from the hovering menu. Dan has implemented the active
activity logic, propagation over the network and has partially hooked it up
on the friends view. Marco has also implemented the frame
activation/deactivation logic and has made a first pass at the animation
API. From the frame you can now launch new activities, share them on the
network through the application menu, and join activities from the
invitations that appears on the bottom of the Frame. On the right edge of
the Frame we display the XO icons of the buddies participating to the
activity. You can “make them friends” from a menu. Marco has done some
testing, bug fixing, performance enhancements, and code refactoring. He has
also integrated some of the icons designed by Pentagram.


15. In a related effort, Ivan has frozen Verison 1.0 of the document format
used in the Journal (and wiki). The general datastore, differential storage
engine, and indexing engine are also largely finished. A WYSIWYG (what you
see is what you get) editor in progress, as well as a reference identity
service/emergent public key infrastructure implementation.


[[Category:OLPC]]

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

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|06&nbsp;Jun.&nbsp;2006
|First video with working prototype [http://www.siliconvalleysleuth.com/2006/06/first_video_of_.html]

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|28&nbsp;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"|13&nbsp;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"|16&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2005
|WSIS, Tunisia<br/>Prototype Unveiled by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan<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"|Jan. 2005
|Laptop Intiative Officially Announced at World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
|}

=PRESS=
{|

|-
|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"|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]

|-
|&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]

|-
|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]

|-
|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]

|-
|&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]

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

|-
|align="right"|28&nbsp;Jan.&nbsp;2006
||UNDP | [http://www.undp.org/dpa/pressrelease/releases/2006/20060128-laptop.shtml $100 Laptop Project Moves Closer to Narrowing Digital Divide]

|-
|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.]

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

|-
|&nbsp;
||OLPC | [http://laptop.org/2005-1213-olpc.html Quanta Computer Inc. to Manufacture $100 Laptop]

|-
|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"|04&nbsp;Dec.&nbsp;2005
||Guardian Unlimited | The $100 laptop question

|-
|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.]

|-
|align="right"|18&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2005
||The Electric New Paper | [http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,97523,00.html Gramophone? No, Laptop]

|-
|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]

|-
|&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;
||TeitB | [http://www.eitb24.com/noticia_en.php?id=105759 100 US Dollar Laptop Computer Launched]

|-
|&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;
||Reuters | [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&amp;storyID=2005-11-16T211051Z_01_MCC676182_RtrUKOC_0_US-TUNIS-LAPtop.xml&amp;archived=False Researchers Unveil $100 Laptop for Schoolkids]

|-
|&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]

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|&nbsp;
||ADNKronos International | [http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Trends&amp;loid=8.0.229499796&amp;par=0 Internet: Wind-Up, Budget Laptop Unveiled]

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|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]

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

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

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|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.]

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|align="right"|30&nbsp;Sep.&nbsp;2005
||Times Online | A $100 clockwork computer to help the poor to learn

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

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

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

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

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|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]

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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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OLPC videos

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Press

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