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To contribute a story or news idea, see the '''[[OLPC:Newsroom|OLPC newsroom]]'''.
1. Khaled Hassounah worked this week on identifying the issues facing
Arabic support in Sugar and then coordinated with Marco Gritti to apply the
required fixes. As of Build 131, it is possible to use Arabic not just in
the browser, but the whole sugar interface; it looks beautiful.


For coverage of recent OLPC updates, see our [[twitter]] feed and [http://blog.laptop.org OLPC blog].
2. All eyes on Taiwan: The primary focus of the team this week has been on
the last-minute debugging of the hardware and software in preparation for
the production of B1 machines. Engineers from Quanta, Marvell, AMD, Red
Hat, Himax, and OLPC are working around the clock to meet the goal of an
early November run of 1000 machines.


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. Nicholas Nicholas was the keynote for Forrester's annual Consumer Forum,
the theme of which for this year was: “Using Technology to Empower the
Masses.” Offers of corporate help have poured in since.


== Upcoming pieces ==
4. Mary Lou keynoted the mLearn mobile learning conference in Banff. This
; Claudia
is the crowd that thinks cellphones, PDAs and the ilk are the way to cross
: Learning Chat piece: 278 words, ready now. [[File:Learning Chat.docx]]
the digital divide. Their response to the presentation: they'd like to
: 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.
ditch their cell phones and start writing and working with the laptop.
: 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. Chris Blizzard presented at the Seneca Free Software and Open Source
Symposium. His talk was taped and will be made available on the web.


'''[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. Wireless: Marcelo Tosatti has been working with Ronak Chokshi and others
of Marvell to update Marvell's driver development environment to that we
use for development, and to integrate code from Marvell into the wireless
driver for reprogramming the Marvell chip wireless firmware. As of late
Friday, this code was seen to work in the Libertas wireless driver we are
using.


Archives: [[OLPC:News/Archive 1|2005-2006]]
7. Embedded Controller code: Ray Tseng of Quanta has provided several new
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 2|2007]]
versions of the EC code this week to help fix problems with power on and
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 3|2008]]
with battery charging.
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 4|2009-10]]


=== Translations ===
8. Camera: The CAFE FPGA implementation of the camera is now working. Jon
Sporadic translations of news archives from 2008 and earlier can be found here:
Corbet has restructured the driver to meet the requirements of the V4L2
: [[OLPC:News/lang-de|German]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-es|Spanish]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ja|Japanese]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ko|Korean]]
maintainer. QVGA mode is working (which, among other things, means that
XawTV, an X application for watching television, now works); CIF and QCIF
require some register “magic” that we don't yet understand, which Jon has
asked Omnivision to clarify. Some new controls are wired up, including
horizontal and vertical flip. Nobody had yet noticed that the image was
mirrored, including Jon, until adding the flip option showed it was wrong
all this time.


== [[OLPC:Videos|OLPC videos]] ==
9. NAND flash: Dave Woodhouse's NAND flash driver is complete now, and has
For a history of videos about OLPC and the XO, see [http://olpc.tv olpc.tv] and [[OLPC:Videos]].
uncovered several problems in the CAFE implementation which have been
fixed. It now works well enough that the BTest systems are able to boot
from CAFE NAND flash, and ECC has been implemented.


== Sugar news ==
10. BIOS: Wednesday, we had no fully functioning BIOS for use with CAFE. We
Walter continues to post summaries of Sugar development '''[http://walterbender.org/?cat=3 on his blog]'''.
had intended to use LinuxBIOS with Linux as bootloader for B1 with a
transition to Open Firmware (OFW) as bootloader before B2. We continued
with both possibilities in parallel, such that by Friday we had both
working. Testing of OFW's new USB stack has succeeded, so we have decided
to use OFW immediately. Our efforts will now focus on the LinuxBIOS/OFW
combination.


== Press ==
11. Battery driver: A preliminary version of a battery driver was checked
For an archive of OLPC media coverage, see the [[OLPC:Press/2005-2008|2005-2008 press archives]].
in by Dave Woodhouse; what is remaining is interrupt-driven detection of
state changes in the battery, to avoid polling. Dave is working in the
Linux community to define a new battery interface, as battery kernel
interface(s) in Linux is a mess and people are looking for a better design
to standardize around.


== Past announcements ==
12. Sugar UI: Dan Williams has made progress with getting NetworkManager
Developed through 2011 by the Racepoint Group, OLPC's ''pro bono'' PR firm.
working on the laptop and fitting it to the designs that Eben Eliason and
Marco Gritti have been working on to control networking. Marco is adding a
new build nearly every day to the image snapshots, reflecting the fast pace
of work.


* 2008-08-06 : [[Media:OLPC-Asia.doc|One Laptop per Child expands its presence in Asia]] with project leads in India and China
13. We've had some additions to our builds which will make the
* 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.
out-of-the-box experience for the beta builds a lot better. eToys is now
* 2008-05-15 : [[Media:XP-on-XO.doc|Microsoft Windows XP is now available on the XO laptop]]
part of the image builds and Dan has been doing a lot of work trying to get
* 2008-05-03 : [[Media:Kane-appointment.doc|One Laptop per Child appoints Charles Kane as President and Chief Operating Officer]]
Barry Vercoe's Csound package into the build as well. (Barry was successful
* 2008-01-07 : [[Media:G1G1-results.doc|One Laptop per Child Giving Campaign Raises $35 Million]] in 2007
in getting real-time pitch tracking through the microphone input working on
* 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]
the laptop this week!)
* 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. We are working hard to create a rich-text editor based on the code from
a popular free-software program called Abiword. There's also work being
done to finish the Sugar port of the PDF reader Evince by Marco and
Manusheel Gupa (a summer intern). It feels like we've reached a tipping
point with the user interface.


Laptop News is archived at [http://laptop.media.mit.edu/laptopnews.nsf/latest/news Laptop News].


[[Category:OLPC]]
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 at laptop dot org.

=MILESTONES=
{|
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|align="right" valign="top"|Oct.&nbsp;2006
|B-test boards become available

|-
|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"|May&nbsp;2006
|A-test boards become available

|-
|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"|24&nbsp;Oct.&nbsp;2006
||LA Times | [http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-lunenfeld24oct24,0,2221682.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions Upward Mobility in a Laptop]
|-
|align="right"|24&nbsp;Oct.&nbsp;2006
||Fortune | [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/30/8391805/index.htm This PC wants to save the world]
|-
|align="right"|11&nbsp;Oct.&nbsp;2006
||New York Times | [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/world/africa/11laptop.html U.S. Group Reaches Deal to Provide Laptops to All Libyan Schoolchildren]
|-
|align="right"|25&nbsp;Sep.&nbsp;2006
||vnunet.com | [http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2164876/olpc-receives-free-satellite OLPC offered free satellite connections]
|-
|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"|21&nbsp;Aug.&nbsp;2006
||EWeek.com | [http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2006350,00.asp Knocking Down Barriers to the $100 Laptop]
|-
|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"|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.]

|-
|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"|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"|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;
||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;
||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]

|-
|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]

|-
|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]

|-
|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.]

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

|-
|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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|&nbsp;
||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]

|-
|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

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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