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=Laptop News 2007-08-25=
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1. Ethiopia: Nicholas gave the keynote at UN hosted World Information Technology Forum at which 52 countries were present, virtually all African nations.
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To contribute a story or news idea, see the '''[[OLPC:Newsroom|OLPC newsroom]]'''.
2. Breaza: As part of our on-going outreach in Romania, OLPC intern Joel Stanley gave a presentation to Forum IT, an annual five-day computer summer camp for young people in Romania, run by Catalin Grosu (See http://tabara.forumit.ro/2007/arhiva.php).


For coverage of recent OLPC updates, see our [[twitter]] feed and [http://blog.laptop.org OLPC blog].
3. Microscope: TB, malaria, and HIV/AIDS kill about 6M people a year in resource-poor areas. Simple, afford diagnostic methods for these diseases could save many lives. Our video-microscope add-on to the XO may help with the diagnostics efforts: HIV/AIDS can diagnosed through video microscopicy with signal processing: an automating method to count T-Cells. TB (including drug-resistant TB) and malaria can be diagnosed in similar ways. We are discussing the best way to proceed with Dr. Howard Shapiro, who runs the Center of Microbial Cytometry and wrote the widely used textbook, Practical Flow Cytometry, which can be read online free of charge (See
http://probes.invitrogen.com/products/flowcytometry/practicalflowcytometry.html). Howard has already developed low-cost cytometers for this purpose.


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.
4. Pippy: Chris Ball released a Python-programming activity called Pippy, which is in the base image as of Build 553. It is a simple programming console in the style of the consoles for basic interpreted languages that many of us grew up with, and comes with a selection of introductory Python code. The next goal is to make it easy for children to distribute activities that consist of the code they've written.


== Upcoming pieces ==
5. Wireless resume: Chris Ball spent most of the week working on the wireless-resume problem. Javier Cardona and USB experts at Marvell have been coming up with firmware patches. They are making progress—the number of successful resumes we get per cycle is increasing.
; 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 ==
6. Kernel: Andres Salomon fixed some build failures due to kernel config and sent the patch upstream. Our build scripts needed to be updated as well, so that was done. With that out of the way, Andres took the opportunity to do a large update of our kernel config. This included enabling network and sound drivers used by VMware and Virtualbox, dropping some unused NAND drivers (including ATest NAND support), fixing IPv6, and building some drivers statically. Andres also reviewed a number of vserver updates and committed some of them.


'''[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.
7. School server: John Watlington announced a build (125) for testing. It is missing a number of crucial services, but verifies the build and installation process and supports laptops on the mesh. It should install on most x86 platforms, requiring only an Active Antenna to provide the mesh interface. More information is available from the wiki (See [[XS_Server_Software]]). You can also obtain the Live CD image (from http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/OLPC_XS_LATEST.iso). Release notes and installation instructions are also in the wiki (See [[XS_Installing_Software]]). Over the next week, we hope to include all required services in this build. Thanks go to Holger Levsen, Dan Margo, Scott Ananian, and RedHat team.


Archives: [[OLPC:News/Archive 1|2005-2006]]
8. Updates and security: Scott Ananian—with help from Ivan Krstić, Michael Stone, Noah Kantrowitz, and Mitch Bradley—wrote or edited the following specifications in the wiki:
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 2|2007]]
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 3|2008]]
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 4|2009-10]]


=== Translations ===
* [[Manifest_Specification]]
Sporadic translations of news archives from 2008 and earlier can be found here:
* [[Firmware_Security]]
: [[OLPC:News/lang-de|German]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-es|Spanish]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ja|Japanese]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ko|Korean]]
* [[Firmware_Key_and_Signature_Formats]]
* [[Early_Boot]]
* [[Cheat_codes]]
* [[Yellow_Treaps]]


== [[OLPC:Videos|OLPC videos]] ==
Scott also made good progress towards getting boot-from-multiple-images support into the initial ramdisk, a component of our improved upgrade code. Scott worked on the auto-reinstallation image, hand-holding users through the new auto-reinstallation process and debugging some genuine problems.
For a history of videos about OLPC and the XO, see [http://olpc.tv olpc.tv] and [[OLPC:Videos]].


== Sugar news ==
9. Firmware: Lilian Walter got the router to advertise a DNS IPv6 address and the code to use those data. For completeness, she is working on setting up DHCP6s to do the same. Mitch Bradley released Q2C25; he is focusing on security support in the firmware
Walter continues to post summaries of Sugar development '''[http://walterbender.org/?cat=3 on his blog]'''.


== Press ==
10. Schedules: Monday is feature freeze for Trial-3. We will be following up on all unfinished features to see how to close them down or move them out. We will start attacking the blocking and high-priority bugs starting next week.
For an archive of OLPC media coverage, see the [[OLPC:Press/2005-2008|2005-2008 press archives]].


== Past announcements ==
11. Testing: There was regression over the past week, especially in activities, but by the end of the week, many fixes had been checked in. Check this weekend's build (557). Please write up your notes in the wiki (See [[Test_Group_Release_Notes]]).
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
12. MaMaMedia: The MaMaMedia team has a new release for Build 542 that includes seven activities, including a Jigsaw Puzzle, Poll Builder, and Slider Puzzle feature mesh-based creative and collaborative sharing; and a Learning Center as a place for teachers and students to share learning tips. All of activities are now using the (almost) stabilized Sugar features: journal, clipboard, and tubes for sharing. Many thanks to Carla Gomez Monroy, SJ Klein, and Lauren Klein for their feedback and to Lincoln Quirk, Eben Eliason, and Marco Gritti for their collaboration with Morgan Collett, Carlos Neves, Terrence Grannum, Ed Stoner, Rich Goehl, and Shannon Sullivan (See http://www.worldwideworkshop.org/olpcwiki/index.php?title=MaMaMedia_Activity_Center and http://www.worldwideworkshop.org/olpcwiki/index.php?title=Teacher_Center).
* 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]


13. Map creation: Christopher Schmidt, Schuyler Erle, and SJ Klein worked out a process for turning existing map-layer tools and public data into a lightweight browsable atlas, whose most detailed layer links out to text or image content. This should be able to run on an XO, with tiles generated by libraries on a server. Early versions are working online as a browsable page. Christopher is working on an activity version that clones Browse.


14. Games: Roberto Faga got a lightweight NES emulator to work on the XO, with a set of bundles or ROMs. We need a copyright release on the ROMs and source code from Nintendo (or the original publishers) before we could ship them. Patrick Dejarnette got his Side-Scroller engine working, and is now developing images and some levels over the weekend (See wiki.laptop.org/go/Side-scroller).


[[Category:OLPC]]
15. Content Jams: Brendan Ballou in NYC is organizing a content jam for September 21-23 around news and journalism; they have their organizational team and a test group set up. Roberto Faga is also preparing a Game Jam in Brazil for the end of September; he is looking for interested Portuguese-speakers to help out.

16. Misc. activities: Lauren Klein and Charles Smith are continuing to work on a Bug Blitz activity and plan to have something to test next week. Some biologists from Argentina have offered to help with the project by reviewing photographs to help identify bugs and other life that children photograph in their vicinity.

An activity that need support and work: a simple video editor for splicing together images and video and matching them with spoken sentences (See [[ColingoXO]].

17. Grassroots: OLPC Philippines is gathering local interest; a Manila content jam is planned for the start of October, and they are filing papers to set up their own local nonprofit. OLPC Indonesia is starting to take shape as well; they have recruited a number of interested people and set up their own Indonesian-language mailing list (See [[OLPC_Indonesia]] and http://groups.google.com/group/olpc-indonesia).

=More News=
Laptop News [http://laptop.media.mit.edu/laptopnews.nsf is archived] at [http://laptop.media.mit.edu/laptopnews.nsf/latest/news Laptop News].
Also on [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/community-news/ community-news].

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]]=
{{: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 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: Inside One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/04/25/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-02/ Episode Two]
*Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/03/23/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-one/ Episode One]
* OLPC [http://www.sf.tv/var/videoplayer.php?videourl=http%3A%2F%2Freal.xobix.ch%2Framgen%2Fsfdrs%2F10vor10%2F2007%2F10vor10_26012007.rm%3Fstart%3D0%3A05%3A20.498%26amp%3Bend%3D0%3A09%3A50.738 Video from Switzerland], 26.01.2007
*Interview with Nicholas Negroponte [http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/jan2006/clips/nicholas_negroponte.mov on the &100 Laptop]
*Presentation by Jim Gettys at [http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/03/07/one-laptop-per-child/ FOSDEM 2007]
*GLOBO- BRASIL: Crianças testam computador portátil/ [http://video.globo.com/Videos/Player/Noticias/0,,GIM607884-7823-CRIANCAS+TESTAM+COMPUTADOR+PORTATIL,00.html Students test the laptop]
*Mark Foster delivers presentation to [http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/061004-ee380-300.asx Stanford University]
* Technology Review [http://www.technologyreview.com/video/laptop Mini-Documentary]
* 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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