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=Laptop News 2007-10-27=
1. New York City: United Nations Under-Secretary-General/High Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Countries and Island States, Mr. Cheick Sidi Diarra of Mali, hosted a two-hour meeting exclusively devoted to OLPC. Miguel Brechner and Oscar Becerra presented, respectively, the experiences and decision-making process in Uruguay and Peru. Questions and demos lasted for an additional forty five minutes. About 50 countries were represented.


For coverage of recent OLPC updates, see our [[twitter]] feed and [http://blog.laptop.org OLPC blog].
2. Netherlands: Ivan Krstić keynoted GOVCERT.NL, the invitation-only security conference organized by the Dutch computer emergency response team (CERT). He made a number of contacts with international CERTs, whose assistance might be critical after we deploy.


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. Adapter prong orientation: Demands from the field for one or the other orientation of adapter prongs have led us to request more adapter orientation options. Quanta has been responsive and UL will assist with safety testing. It will be several months before these AC adapters will be available, but work has begun.


== Upcoming pieces ==
4. Resistance tests: Summarized below is the current status of resistance testing of the XO laptop. Mary Lou Jepsen will write a complete report in early November, after all testing data is available. (This report will be available on http://wiki.laptop.org.)
; 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 ==
* Drop: XO passes 10-point drop test from a height of 150cm onto carpet- covered steel (other drop-test details available)
* Operating temperature: 0C to 45C (50C pending certification)
* Storage temperature : –25C to 60C
* Operational altitude: 0 to 5000m
* Dust/water: Testing to Ingress Protocol 54 and 42 (in process)
* Toxicity: RoHS certified (UL report due in early November)
* Safety:
** IEC 60950-1(write up in process)
** EN 60950-1 (write up in process)
** CSA/UL 60950-1 (write up in process)
** ASTM F 963 – Electronic Toy Safety (write up in process)
* AC adapter
** Wide input range: 90v(–10%) ~ 240v(+25%), 35Hz to 70Hz
** IEC 60950-1 (write up in process)
** EN 60950-1 (write up in process)
** CSA/UL 60950-1 (write up in process)
** Extra transient and burst immunity: IEC 61000-4-4 (passed)
** Extra surge immunity: IEC 61000-4-5 (passed)
* Keyboard
** Tested to 500,000 cycles
** Rubber: water and dust resistant
* Buttons (power, display rotate, gamepads): Tested to 500,000 cycles


'''[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.
5. Mass-production build (Trial 3): The stable build for mass production start is [http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/development/build622/ Build 622] ([[OLPC_Firmware_q2d02|Firmware Q2D02]]). Please test these builds extensively. John Palmieri and Scott Ananian produced a number of builds in support of mass production, incorporating final changes for C2 systems and fixes from Javier Cardona and Andres Salomon for USB and wireless related suspend/resume problems. James Cameron helped Chris Ball, Bernie Innocenti, and Jim Gettys diagnose why X would not start while testing the C2 boards.


Archives: [[OLPC:News/Archive 1|2005-2006]]
Scott has been supporting the Joyride build system. He, Michael Stone, and Bernardo Innocenti had a fruitful discussion with the Fedora build maintainer community about how to integrate our build system with koji going forward. Greg DeKoenigsberg at RedHat has offered his significant help in coordinating our needs with members of the Fedora community who would like to get involved.
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 2|2007]]
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 3|2008]]
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 4|2009-10]]


=== Translations ===
6. Localization: We have issued a call for translators, coordinators, and volunteers (See http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/localization/2007-October/000052.html). If you have good language skills (even if you have minimal computer skills), you can make an important contribution to the project. Please help us localize to as many languages as possible (See the localization mailing-list subscription page at
Sporadic translations of news archives from 2008 and earlier can be found here:
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization).
: [[OLPC:News/lang-de|German]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-es|Spanish]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ja|Japanese]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ko|Korean]]


== [[OLPC:Videos|OLPC videos]] ==
Xavier Alvarez, Alfonso de la Guarda, and Danny Clark have built a Pootle installation—a web based tool to help in language localization (See the OLPC Pootle at its temporary site by visiting http://solar.laptop.org:5080/). Sayamindu Dasgupta, a student from India working part-time on the project is helping them.
For a history of videos about OLPC and the XO, see [http://olpc.tv olpc.tv] and [[OLPC:Videos]].


== Sugar news ==
Sumit Chowdhury reports that Nandu Pradhan, president of RedHat India, is working with a team next week to help provide localization support in eleven Indian languages. Sarmad Hussein of the PAN Localization project and the CRULP research center has offered help with Pashto, Urdu, and Nepali keyboards and localization.
Walter continues to post summaries of Sugar development '''[http://walterbender.org/?cat=3 on his blog]'''.


== Press ==
7. Network upgrades/activation: Scott Ananian has completed a bring up of our “meshtest” testbed; he has verified automated network upgrades with security enabled, and activation from school server. (Some tweaks required to make this more robust went into Build 619.) He also discovered that about half of the meshtest machines were using compact Linksys external USB ethernet dongles that would overheat and crash if left on overnight. He also made some database-model changes to activation.laptop.org which will help us better manage groups of laptops. And he imported manufacturing data for all of our existing B2-C1 machines and generated activation and developer leases for them to ease testing.
For an archive of OLPC media coverage, see the [[OLPC:Press/2005-2008|2005-2008 press archives]].


== Past announcements ==
8. Backups: Tomeu Vizoso, Ivan Krstić, and Marco Gritti discussed and implemented Journal backups to the server and individual file restore. Datastore performance will also be good enough to do full restores. Along the way, a number of bugs were fixed. Ivan wrote the corresponding school-server backup system (#4100) with Tomeu assisting on the datastore side and Marco on the Journal-activity side. It should be ready to land in builds early this week.
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
9. Screenshots: Tomeu and Marco are working on an improved way of taking screenshots of running activities for the Journal preview. (Typing Alt+1 will still cause a screenshot to be placed in the Journal.)
* 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]


10. Read activity and Sugar documentation: Tomeu gave some support to Pascal Scheffers for his work in Read (which now saves its state in the Journal and has numerous improvements to the UI) and documentation of the Sugar API. He is doing an awesome job!


11. UI polish: Simon Schampier added (Ctrl+Q, Ctrl+Escape) for closing the activities and the keybinding (Alt+Space) to the activity window to hide/show the tray. The browse activity was adopted accordingly to these API changes. He is now finishing up work on a control panel.


[[Category:OLPC]]
12. Battery-life testing: Richard Smith repeated a number of tests on power consumption and battery life. These tests were gratifyingly consistent with other direct power measurements Joel Stanley had performed in late summer. There are remaining power savings to be had by better use of the DCON hardware and optimization of the wireless firmware when running in mesh mode, which have just begun.

Scott found a battery-charging bug with NiMH batteries, which Richard is working on.

13. Firmware: Mitch Bradley released [[OLPC_Firmware_q2d02|Firmware Q2D02]]:
* turned off indexed I/O before early interaction to close a security hole;
* added rtc-wackup command for suspend-resume testing;
* enabled reboot using the new EC command that resets the EC too, thus re-enabling indexed I/O, thus making auto-firmware-update possible;
* fixed bug in signature parsing for developer keys;
* increased countdown to five seconds because its harder to catch it with security activated;
* when searching for a signature string, look for one whose key signature matches the trailing portion of our pubkey, instead of just taking the first line with a "sig01:" format;
* disabled “X” button toggle between secure and non-secure modes (The “X” button now forces secure mode when in non-secure mode, instead of going in either direction.);
* disabled indexed I/O when entering the kernel in secure mode;
* disabled PSCLK in low state to fix the PS2 flow control bug from a cold boot;
* added feature to send battery-status SCIs on low_bat change;
* fixed the bug that caused a failure to recognize the C2 board revision number;
* implemented command 0xDB to auto restart with indexed IO enabled.

14. Schedule: The upcoming releases have been renamed and re-purposed:

Oct. 26: “Trial-3” ([http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/development/build622/ Build 622]) are the bits being loaded for mass production. This was completed this week.

Nov. 16: “Reload” are bits that could possibly be loaded before shipping laptops to individuals. We will hand pick blocking bug fixes only if we need to.

Dec. 07: “Killjoy” (V1.0, previously referred to as FRS or First Deployment) is a release based on the “Joyride” builds. This will include bug fixes/minor features that are in Joyride today; and we are actively moving some trac items to this release based on what we know about in the next week. Feature freeze for this is next week; code freeze the week after.

Q1 2008: “Future Release” (V1.1) is the release after Killjoy. Not well defined. Right now it is where we moved all the features that didn't make it into Killjoy.

(See https://dev.laptop.org/roadmap for more info.)

As we do the triage for these builds, we’d very much appreciate community feedback as to what you think is important. Feel free to send email to Walter Bender, Kim Quirk, or Jim Gettys in regard to priorities.

15. Testing: Alex Latham kept the suspend/resume testbed running with the same OS, OFW, kernel, and wireless firmware release as the test team in China, who are bringing up 42 boards with new PCB. He also worked on connectivity testing and upgrade testing. Next week he will be working creating a more comprehensive smoke/regression test to provide the basis for our final release testing. Yani Galanis has put together a detailed wiki page on testing network connectivity (See [[Test_Network_Configuration]]). There is information on how things work today and where to find information about your connectivity; he has also created a connectivity-status script that will send all this info to standard output. Ricardo Carrano has been working our RF sniffer to provide debug and analysis help on some of the difficult wireless hangs and access-point association problems we have been seeing.

16. EC code: Three new EC bugs seemed to have surfaced this week:
* The EC code and kernel have a mismatch in meaning of data sent between them for power-status events. Therefore its true external- power status events are not detected by the kernel. David Woodhouse and Richard have a workaround.
* EC commands too close to suspend leave the EC in a state where
it won't respond to commands anymore. Andres Salomon and Richard have a kernel workaround.
* Something in the “Secure Boot” sequence seems to make the EC reset the capacity percentage of a full NiMH battery to 7% and sometimes this gets written back into the battery. This results in what was a fully charged battery now marked as empty. Bad things then happen. It only happens in secure boot and only with a fully charged NiMH. Testing in secure boot mode has made for slow goings. The current suspect is when we disable Indexed IO to the EC to prevent flashing.

17. Squeak/Etoys: Marta Voelcker reports that the children at the Luciana de Abreu school in Porto Alegre, Brazil are making great progress with Etoys. “The 11-year olds are using it very frequently, 12-to-14-year olds also increasing it, and first graders (age 7) are starting to use it. They use squeak in the classroom and after school they meet in the garden to talk about and share things made with squeak, it is becoming a culture!” Squeak has been very popular in Ethiopia as well.

18. Measure activity: Arjun Sarwal explored color schemes for displaying multiple logs from multiple people. He also spent this past week reviewing UI of the Activity with Eben Eliason, reviewing Journal integration with Tomeu and Marco, refining DSP aspects with Mitch, V. Michael Bove, Albert Cahalan, and Benjamin Schwartz, and optimizing drawing code with Bernie Innocenti and Cody Lodrige.

19. Documentation: Todd Kelsey has build “PHPMyFaq” in order to take some of the support heat off of developers. PHPMyFaq is scalable, multilingual, RSS, XML; it allows people to post questions, other people to answer, print out, save to PDF, XML, etc. Its coolest feature is ranking—most relevant/popular items float to top (See http://aaa.opensourcehost.com/~thoughts/faq/). Todd could use one or more people’s help on:
* defining categories of questions that developers get asked;
* some pre-made questions and answers to seed page;
* someone to moderate instances.

Meanwhile, Felice Gardner has been doing some cleaning up of the FAQ on the wiki, putting “new” questions into categories and consolidating multiple pages of questions on the same topic (See [[Ask OLPC a Question]]).

Todd and Ann Gentle are spending part of today writing up how they have worked on documentation so far, and what tools could help improve the process. Christoph Derndofer and Eduardo Silva have shared their drafts of an activity handbook as well. The results will be posted to the OLPC wiki's [[Documentation]] page.

20. Library: Jamendo now has an OLPC music portal up, with help from Free Culture and the Antenna Alliance (See http://www.jamendo.com/en/olpc for the first posted bands and albums of freely licensed music). They are also gathering signed copyright statements from all authors for the collections.

The Internet Archive is working to turn their feeds of new book-metapages into a feed of PDFs. Alexis Rossi is helping produce improved collections of their children's library (See http://dev.laptop.org/~arael/preview/childrens-library/).

Anil Hemrajani at Big Universe has 14 children's picturebooks whose authors have agreed for them to be distributed as demo books. These are the first children’s books in our collections that were not scanned, but were created in digital format. This is a temporary collection while working to get authors and publishers to agree to a suitable CC license.

Andrew Whitworth at Wikijunior is working on making stable versions of
their newer books, with a focus on an offline interface that is simple and allows people to read static books while linking to places for them to comment and edit them.

Curriki is working on their tool to package collections as XO bundles. Some of our curators have gone to them to store their collections.
The EGAP alumni from Monterrey's Tech working on a summer of content mapping project have started a blog. They are posting their works to Curriki, and learning how to integrate with our feature server (See http://olpclatam.blogspot.com/). Curriki is working with Nortel to convert their LearnIT video and text materials to Curriki collections; and to make sure they are bundled for the XO.

Kevin Driscoll is working with a few students in India on a Hackety-Hack series. They have eight problems and solutions written so far; the whole needs to be Sugarized.

Marilyn Mosley, coordinator of the Laurel Springs school, is offering her online ecology courses to OLPC students, and working on new health
courses

Peter Kaufman, our open video coordinator, and Ahrash Bissell of ccLearn are helping plan a video creation and remix challenge for the science video and documentary community. The challenge will have two stages, one to provide free material suitable for teaching science, and the second to make the best short educational video for children from available sources.

21. Community/Games: Mike Fletcher is being flown to Taipei for a few days this week for a free-software and open-source conference there. He is talking in a session along with the lead Asus Eee developers, who are eager to involve the open source community. Mike Fletcher is also helping organize a small sibling game sprint in Toronto, November 16–18, at the same time as the CMU Game Jam (See [[Games/Productive]]).

Nov. 10–11 : Game Jam Brasil (in São Carlos)

Nov. 16–18 : Game Jam Pittsburgh (at the CMU ETC center)

Nov. 16–18 : Toronto Game Sprint

Don Hopkins' version of SimCity is almost complete; it needs to go through final testing by the EA developers before it can be released under the GPL, but should be ready for child testing.

22. Rowen and Tim of OLPCPH talked with Graham Prosser for their plans on testing laptops in Toronto, USA and in Makati/Manila/Bulacan, Philippines.

=More News=
Laptop News is archived [http://laptop.media.mit.edu/laptopnews.nsf here] and [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 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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