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=Laptop News 2008-05-04=
:A note from the editor:
:I have been reading the discussions this past week on the mission and direction of OLPC and OLPC's outreach to the community. I'd like to reiterate that we at OLPC are committed to create Sugar as an open source project, as it provides a great opportunity for both learners and for contributors. Sugar in combination with the XO hardware extends this opportunity even further through the mesh, power management, and robustness features of the hardware required for many of the environments where we want to provide help. We have sold or given away hundreds of thousands of laptops running Sugar on GNU/Linux on the XO. We plan to continue to do that. This year's Tech Team budget allows us to almost double our personnel in development, test, and support. We are very excited about being able to hire at this level over the next few months.
:OLPC has had an amazing amount of contributions from volunteers in the community in all areas including development, test, support, translations, documentation, marketing/messaging, and even business expertise. We truly value these contributions. What we haven't done well (at least recently) is to support people who are trying to help us. We need to fix our communications with volunteers and community groups. We need to be open and transparent without compromising the confidentiality of others that we might do business with. This is difficult but it is not rocket science. I think we can do it. Sometimes when everyone is overworked, it is much easier to focus on the details of the day than to see the bigger problems. I intend to make some specific recommendations towards better communications in the next few weeks. Your comments, thoughts, and ideas are welcome.
::- [[User:Kimquirk|Kim Quirk]]
::Dir of Tech Team


For coverage of recent OLPC updates, see our [[twitter]] feed and [http://blog.laptop.org OLPC blog].
==Power and Hardware==
The first Multi-Battery Charger sample parts off of the tooling made it to 1cc this week. Richard has been spending most of his time purchasing, scrounging up, and assembling all the other parts in order to create a working prototype. Once assembled it will start to get used at 1cc.


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.
Richard has modified his power logging script to try and do battery life estimation calculations as a first try for something that can be used
for the battery monitor in sugar. Its available here: http://dev.laptop.org/~rsmith/olpc-bat_ttl


== Upcoming pieces ==
==Tech Team in Deployments==
; Claudia
While in Peru over the past week, John Watlington queried individuals in the MED to prioritize software improvements being considered.
: Learning Chat piece: 278 words, ready now. [[File:Learning Chat.docx]]
Speeding up the user interface was high on everybody's list of improvements, with the proposed Sugar UI changes a close second. He showed them Joyride 1892 to illustrate the proposed changes, and discussed changes to the activity menu bar. Some of the technical team got excited and started downloading it to play with.
: 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 ==
A close third was improving the power management of the laptop to extend the life of a single battery charge. Following were improvements to the group model (specifically, they are looking at support of multiple groups, possibly defined and shared between users --- e.g. the teacher makes a group that is "first grade", so it is easy to invite only the first graders to join an activity.


'''[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.
Improvements in the network association algorithm (the laptop needs to automatically identify school servers, irrespective of the connection method, mesh or AP, #6855) were assumed. We also need to continue the work on improving the reliability of the collaboration middleware under lossy network conditions. Several new patches have arrived from Collabora to test in the (in limbo) mesh testbed! Re-enabling support for automatic mesh portal is a topic of increasing importance. A very strong requirement is that further machines arrive in Peru from manufacturing with build 703 and the Peru activity bundle installed.


Archives: [[OLPC:News/Archive 1|2005-2006]]
Backup to the school server wasn't highly rated, perhaps not surprising given the sample set. Unfortunately, deployments haven't gotten to the point of obtaining feedback directly from the field on Update.1. (Arahuay just upgraded from B2 machines to mass production XOs and Update.1 two weeks ago.).
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 2|2007]]
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 3|2008]]
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 4|2009-10]]


=== Translations ===
==Hardware==
Sporadic translations of news archives from 2008 and earlier can be found here:
A meeting was held at 1CC this week to kick-off the second generation of OLPC laptop hardware. The overall goals of this generation have been established for some time: 1) Much Lower Power, 2) Lower Cost, 3) More robust and easier to repair, and 4) Increased performance without sacrificing any more important goal. A surprising amount of consensus was reached on the overall form factor and look and feel, and more information will be publicly announced soon.
: [[OLPC:News/lang-de|German]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-es|Spanish]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ja|Japanese]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ko|Korean]]


== [[OLPC:Videos|OLPC videos]] ==
==Software==
For a history of videos about OLPC and the XO, see [http://olpc.tv olpc.tv] and [[OLPC:Videos]].
===Scott Ananian===
* Most of my time was spent on networking issues. I wrote up a set of networking principles to guide deployment networking assumptions: [[Network principles]]. This document is still a work-in-progress; I'm working on integrating comments and prototyping some ideas to firm up proposals.
* Towards the end of the week, I investigated the skype, Ubuntu Mobile, and Edubuntu ports to the XO.


===Chris Ball===
== Sugar news ==
Walter continues to post summaries of Sugar development '''[http://walterbender.org/?cat=3 on his blog]'''.
* Working on a manual "extreme low-power" mode. Came up against obstacles one and two: the EC commands for turning off the wireles device by putting it into reset are not implemented in the driver, and we'll need to be able to create per-kernel initrds before we can make the USB controller modular. Started work on both of these.
* Once these are done, we can add a manual UI switch that turns off the wireless chip and unloads the host controller (which will give us about 300ms resume time and large power saving) before enabling OHM's idle suspend mode and backlight dimming.
* Realized that the "wikipedia-iphone" open-source project (which stores compressed wikipedia snapshots on the iPhone and allows browsing of the snapshot by decompressing articles on-the-fly) is a great fit for us. Worked with Mel Chua to document what the steps to port it to an XO activity would be. Please see Mel's write up: [[Wiki server]]. The full text of the Spanish Wikipedia is 400M compressed; by selecting only popular, well-linked, regularly-edited articles, this could drop to a size where it makes sense to put it on XOs directly. 400M is already appropriate for putting on a school server.


== Press ==
===Javier Cardona on the thin firmware project or soft AP===
For an archive of OLPC media coverage, see the [[OLPC:Press/2005-2008|2005-2008 press archives]].
* 8388 mac80211 driver and firmware are functional for infra and monitor mode.
* device can scan, associate and transfer data (for now with no security and at fixed rate).
* b43 (broadcom) + mac80211 + hostapd AP solution has been tested with latest hostapd and wireless kernel + necessary patches. This will be the golden system that we'll compare our libertas based solution with.
* build and testing procedures have been documented.
* we should be able to make a first development release in two weeks (it will not include AP functionality yet).


== Past announcements ==
===Morgan Collett===
Developed through 2011 by the Racepoint Group, OLPC's ''pro bono'' PR firm.
* worked on [[Tubes Tutorial]] to get it in line with changes to HelloMesh
* worked on a proof of concept to launch Chat when a non-Sugar Jabber client initiates a connection (testing, almost ready for review)


* 2008-08-06 : [[Media:OLPC-Asia.doc|One Laptop per Child expands its presence in Asia]] with project leads in India and China
===Guillaume Desmottes===
* 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.
- Investigated few presence related bugs
* 2008-05-15 : [[Media:XP-on-XO.doc|Microsoft Windows XP is now available on the XO laptop]]
- Continue to implement Gadget client. Most of it is done now.
* 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]


===Ricardo Carrano===
* Finished testing firmware release 22.p10. It fixes many bugs (#4616, #6709, #4927, #6589) and it will be released to joyride as soon as Javier Cardona rewrites/approves the necessary driver patches.
* Summarized a list of current wireless issues in [[Wireless Issues Apr08]] and started the [[Network Issues May08]] to collect contributions for a new list with the more ambitious goal of concentrating all network-related issues. Please contribute!


===Andres Salomon===
* worked on getting more stuff upstream.
* merged master up w/ 2.6.25, discussed branching a new stable from it
* created and merged newmaster up w/ linus
* fixed a number of bugs in master and newmaster
Linus's 2.6.26 will be the first upstream kernel capable of booting on an XO.


===Michael Stone===
This week, I reviewed touchpad bugs and prepared some straw-man text around which to organize further development. I also helped Dennis
experiment with Sugar-on-F-9-on-XO with Dennis, critiqued several patches by Martin Dengler, critiqued Eben's Journal redesign work
with Ben Schwartz and Jameson Quinn, and reviewed parts of Scott's "Network Principles" document with Daf.

==Support==
Kim Quirk and Adam Holt held a G1G1 post mortem review to capture the important things that were done right and done wrong. We will deliver a summary of this to all interested people at OLPC in another week. Attending the meeting were representatives from all our partners. Some highlights: It is critical to appoint someone with oversight and accountability for the entire program as too many things fell into holes with no owner. Also most people felt that they 'pulled out all the stops' for this program to the point of burning bridges and burning out. Every partner ended up getting involved in the time-consuming and stressful job of supporting people who were very upset.

===Emily Smith===
* sent out 50+ tax receipts for donated XOs
* continued to work on shipping problems for G1G1
* continued to send out replacement machines for RMAs
* Began manually notifying RMA recipients of their FedEx tracking numbers
* Found that about 10% of RMAs reshipped have problems with delivery (address change, requested refund not reshipment, etc)

==SysAdmin==
===Henry Hardy===
* All monitored systems had 100% uptime.
* Crank (dev, trac, git) continues to be slow. On April 28, a small problem caused by an apparent hash collision between 2 tickets which contributed to added slowness of trac occured and was resolved.
* Upgrade of grinch filer is scheduled for this upcoming weekend. We plan to add nine 1 terabyte disks to the coraid 1521 filer. Grinch will be unavailable from Saturday at noon EDT Saturday May 3 to Monday May 5 at 09:00 EDT.

=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].

Press requests: please send email to press@racepointgroup.com

==[[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]]==
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]
* 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]

==[[Testimonials]] about my XO laptop==
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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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