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=Laptop News 2007-11-03=
1. Reggio Emilia: Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi reconfirmed his commitment of 50,000 laptops for Ethiopia while at a town meeting of over 600 people where Nicholas presented OLPC. The importance of the funding is its exemplary nature—it is a model for other European countries and the EU itself to follow. The clarity with which both the press and the audience understood children as our mission, versus a market, was refreshing.


For coverage of recent OLPC updates, see our [[twitter]] feed and [http://blog.laptop.org OLPC blog].
2. Rome: Nicholas joined Antonio Battro and Matt Keller for a whirlwind one-day tour of the Eternal City. The day started with an interview on Radio Vatican, followed by an address to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, a speech received by over 200 UN staffers. After meeting with members of the City of Florence Council, Nicholas addressed over 300 members of Catholic Orders at the Vatican. (The Catholic Orders educate 50-million children in schools worldwide, many in the poorest countries.) The event, organized by Matt and Tom Rocheford of the Jesuit order included a presentation by Cardinal Poupard on the Encyclica “Populorum Progressio” as a mission towards education in developing countries and Antonio introduced the fundamental principles of OLPC. Throughout the day, they were shadowed by a Time Magazine reporter (See [http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1678273,00.html]).


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. New York City: Nicholas gave the keynote address at the 10th anniversary of Mouse.org, accompanied by Chancellor Joel Klein of the NYC public school system. Mouse is working with OLPC and, among other things, will help document the XO. Mouse is an organization that has students who helps other students (and teachers and schools) run their computer systems.


== Upcoming pieces ==
4. Cambridge: The first of what will become monthly learning workshops will be held this coming week; attendees are coming from the countries expecting to launch in the coming weeks and months. Lindsay Petrillose has done a fantastic job organizing all aspects of the meeting.
; 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 ==
5. Mass production (MP): John Watlington continued to chase down our remaining suspend/resume problems. Many tests were tried, with most of them failing to cause any laptop crashes. (We now only see very rare crashes upon resume.) A production-line test for suspend/resume was developed and tested. The kernel and firmware teams have been invaluable in supporting this testing process.


'''[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.
Richard Smith has arrived in Changshu to continue testing the C2 motherboard and provide support the first days of production while John returns to Cambridge with a batch of motherboards for more intensive hardware analysis. Another batch is going to Terry Su (Quanta) in Taiwan for parallel debugging. Mary Lou Jepsen, Richard, Arnold Kao, Gary Chiang, and Matt Huang are in Changshu right now. Chris Ball is already back.


Archives: [[OLPC:News/Archive 1|2005-2006]]
This unusual level of testing is due to our quest for an extraordinarily robust laptop with extraordinary low power consumption.
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 2|2007]]
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 3|2008]]
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 4|2009-10]]


=== Translations ===
Regarding mechanical, this weekend, among other things, we are fixing a cosmetic blemish on the left and right hand side keyboard-base green “bumpers.” The tooling is being modified presently. Other work includes online manufacturer-server setup and testing plans, fulfillment reporting, logistics, etc.
Sporadic translations of news archives from 2008 and earlier can be found here:
: [[OLPC:News/lang-de|German]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-es|Spanish]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ja|Japanese]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ko|Korean]]


== [[OLPC:Videos|OLPC videos]] ==
6. Embedded controller (EC): Richard finally figured out what was going on with the NiMH batteries in secure-boot mode. API differences between the EC commands and Open Firmware. This was fixed in Q2D03.
For a history of videos about OLPC and the XO, see [http://olpc.tv olpc.tv] and [[OLPC:Videos]].


== Sugar news ==
7. Schedule: Friday was Feature Freeze Day for “Update.1.” At this point it is recommended that activity developers branch their builds—only high-priority fixes should be made to this branch—they can continue in development for future features on their mainline branch. In order to stabilize the Update.1 branch, we are asking that developers make recommendations about blocking or very-high-priority bugs; but no more code check-ins until they are confirmed with Jim Gettys or Kim Quirk.
Walter continues to post summaries of Sugar development '''[http://walterbender.org/?cat=3 on his blog]'''.


== Press ==
8. Testing: Ricardo Carrano and Yani Galanis have been tracking down some issues associated with Access Point association, network manager, wireless drivers, and presence service. They continue to add to the knowledge base of how to debug and test in these areas (Please see [[Test_Network_Configuration]] and [[Test_Config_Notes]]).
For an archive of OLPC media coverage, see the [[OLPC:Press/2005-2008|2005-2008 press archives]].


== Past announcements ==
Alex Latham has developed a one-hour smoke/regression test that anyone can run as we begin testing of Update.1, which is scheduled to be out at the end of the month (See [[1_Hour_Smoke_Test]]). Please review and make comments (and start using it next 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. Sugar: Marco Pesenti Gritti spent most of the week on Update1 bug fixes. He fixed several regressions from Ship.1 (Trial-3); as a result, the Sugar core is getting back to a state of stability: the Totem video player is working again and mime-type handling is much improved. Journal previews are now generated reliably, but they are still too slow. Bernardo Innocenti is working on improved performance. Marco started looking into rainbow with Michael Stone to plan proper integration with Sugar for Update.1. Marco and Chris Ball started looking into the sound issues that crept into the Joyride builds—there was a race in the gstreamer code that prevents the device from being freed; a fix is in the build.
* 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]


Reinier Heeres has joined the Sugar team as a three-month intern. He is the author of the Calculate activity in current builds. Marco helped Reinier to integrate with the team.


Tomeu Vizoso fixed some issues with special characters when copying entries to USB sticks (tickets #3498 and #4558: Mount removable devices as UTF8). He also implemented “expanding” of bundled journal entries. This will allow restoring individual entries from the backup in the school server and, in a future milestone, sharing entries between XOs (See [[Journal_entry_bundles]] for more details).


[[Category:OLPC]]
Tomeau also removed an active loop in the DataStore that had caused it to wake up every 2.5ms; eliminating this wake-up will help keep power consumption low. Tomeu improved the flushing strategy in the DataStore. We now flush either every 20 changes or one minute after the last unflushed change. This should prevent data loss in most cases, such as when the power goes off completely.

Simon Schampijer continued to work on the Sugar control panel, which is now included in the latest builds (See [[Sugar_Control_Panel]] for details.)

Some improvements have been made to the browser as well. The browser can now scale its contents. Simon introduced a view toolbar with buttons for zoom in and zoom out, full-screen, and and to hide or show the tray. Key bindings for zoom in (CTRL+) and zoom out (CTRL–) have been added as well. Walter Bender and Eben Eliason made a new activity as a derivative of the browser that launches Gmail directly from the taskbar. Other Google Apps may follow.

Chris Ball released a new version of Pippy, which has new examples, including Guess (from Pilar Saenz).

Muriel de Souza Godoi released a new version of the Memorize activity. This version allows children to create their own games, using text, pictures and audio from the Record activity, which are then saved in the Journal. When someone joins the activity, these data are copied into the Journal of the other XO using the author’s colors.

Arjun Sarwal worked on the Measure activity with Cody Lodridge; they optimized the rendering code: the frame-rate and response time has improved significantly. This has largely been possible due to reduced calls to X for re-drawing the background in each frame update. Arjun also reintroduced the show values option, which displays the RMS and average values of the signal; and he fixed a bug that prevented Measure and Record from working together.

Scott Ananian added AcousticMeasure, Wikibrowse, and Gmail activities to Joyride.

10. Presence service: Sjoerd Simons has been working on stabilizing (and freezing) the telepathy-salut chatroom/activity protocol, now officially named “Clique” (previously it didn't really have a name), for Update.1.

Simon McVittie made some related changes that will deliberately break compatibility with the multicast DNS announcements used in Ship.1 (Trial-3), so that Update.1 XOs will not be able to see Ship.1 activities, and Ship.1 XOs will not be able to see Update.1 activities. This is actually a a good thing: if you put an Update.1 XO and a Ship.1 XO in the same activity, the Ship.1 telepathy-salut would abort with an assertion failure whenever the Update.1 version sent messages, and the Update.1 telepathy-salut would be unable to understand messages sent by the Ship.1 version.

Simon synchronized with Sjoerd's latest changes and it seems to work, so he has pushed it into Koji for Joyride inclusion. There are likely to be some issues to sort out early next week, but he thinks we're done with major changes—we do not plan to change the wire protocol again for the foreseeable future.

Morgan Collett has been working on Presence Service reliability improvements, which track activities and Telepathy connection managers and recover from them crashing. Morgan also updated HelloMesh, the Tubes demo activity, incorporating Simon’s Sugar API improvements, which reduce the code necessary to set up Tubes. Activity authors should look at the changes in Connect and HelloMesh to see how they can reduce the existing code. (The old method will still work, so there is no urgency to update.)

Simon and Guillaume Desmottes worked on Stream Tubes, which implement TCP/IP over XMPP; Simon implemented this for the Read activity. Stream Tubes provide one-to-one connections that are much better for data transfer or streaming as opposed to the signal and method calls provided by D-Bus Tubes; Stream Tubes can be used in conjunction with D-Bus Tubes in an activity which needs both.

11. X Window System: Bernie Innocenti has been restructuring our i18n (internationalization) and keyboard configuration scripts, along with the OLPC Display Manager (olpc-dm). There's still some work to do, but the resulting scheme is simpler, writes less to system files and, hopefully, also speeds up boot a little. Bernie has also been chasing a performance regression in taking screen shots for the Journal that slows us down when switching between activities. Walter Bender sent the [[OLPC_Nepal_Keyboard|Nepali keyboard]] out for review from the manufacturer; a [[Pashto_Keyboard|Pashto keyboard]] is being reviewed by the community; the [[Talk:OLPC_Nigeria_Keyboard|West African keyboard]] is also getting extensive review by Don Osborn, Paa Kwesi Imbeah, Dwayne Bailey, Adel El Zaim, and Albert Cahalan.

12. Kernel: Andres Salomon spent Sunday through Tuesday hunting down a bizarre bug that turned out to be something in the kernel scheduler. He ran out of time for debugging, but signs were pointing to it being a vserver bug. The instability of the VServer kernel patches has made us remove this from our builds for Update.1. We will likely revisit use of light-weight containerization for security in future releases. We are pursuing alternate approaches to activity isolation for our first releases.

Andres also did some debugging of USB and DCON (display controller) code and attempted to reliably reproduce a Libertas transmit timeout bug. Chris Ball worked on OHM (Open Hardware Manager) to implement power management: results to follow.

13. New build system: We have established an independent build system for OLPC, that allows greater flexibility for testing builds. Scott Ananian spent time on Koji/mock integration work and discussions with the Fedora koji team. Scott created new Kernel/Xtest/Sugar/Rainbow branches for stabilization and testing of Joyride. Scott and John Palmieri released stable builds 623, and 624 to Quanta. for mass production. They pplied pilgrim patches to close or address numerous trac tickets: #4600, 4259, 4473, 3937, 4063, 2661, 4032, 3643, 3977, 2840, 4457, and 4400, among others. Scott also patched olpcrd with initial partition support.

Scott also helped Red Sox win the World Series by wearing clothing with appropriate logos and dressing his dog in same as well.

14. Wireless: We spent most of the week trying to consistently reproduce the wireless loss of functionality issue described in ticket #4470. The only consistent pattern that emerged is that newer builds expose the behavior more quickly and that there is a strong correlation with traffic volume (Michail Bletsas hasn't been able to reproduce the bug at home for the entire week). Given that the wireless firmware keeps running, the most probable cause is data-flow management in the Libertas driver. There was one patch submitted this week that fixes silent discard of frames by the driver that could also have an effect on the behavior seen in #4470. The other major blocking bug (#3341) is addressed by that fix and some firmware changes implemented in a private release to Scott, so that he can move on with his wireless update development.

QMI produced the first Active Antenna board samples and send them to OLPC for testing this week. Marvell is working on the firmware update tool on them that will be released the last week of November.

15. Suspend on idle CPU: John Gilmore has been exploring automatic suspend-on-idle; these issues have become a lot clearer in his mind, but it is still easy to get confused. You can join the discussion in the wiki (See [[Suspend_and_resume]]).

16. Localization: Xavier Alverez and Alfonso de la Guarda have established a Pootle server for localization of Sugar, activities, and other OLPC-related localization needs. Sayamindu Dasgupta is working with them. They are making good progress, but could use as much help as they can get (See [http://solar.laptop.org:5080/projects/xo_core/]). Support your favorite language now!

17. Security: Ivan Krstić and Michael Stone gave a heads up to activity developers that we will be landing portions of our security system for Update.1. We will be requiring: (1) file-path compliance; (2) a cryptographic signature; and (3) a permissions declaration.

File-path compliance means that you must ensure your activity does not write to any path outside of that contained in the environment variable SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT; specifically subdirectories called “data,” “conf,” and “tmp” within the SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT directory. (We are working with the Sugar team to provide helper functions for easily getting those three directory paths for those of you using Python. Until then, please depend on the environment variable directly.)

Please note that if you are using the DataStore for your file I/O, you still must write the file somewhere before asking the DataStore to check it in; if you choose a temporary filename that's outside of SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT, you will be non-compliant.

File path compliance is a requirement for inclusion in Update.1. Please do your best to make sure you are not writing to paths outside of SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT; we'll try to help you catch any such writes that you miss.

We will be posting more details regarding cryptographic signatures and permissions declarations—these will be required in near future. As a summary, when we say signatures, we mean that you as the activity authors will use a set of tools we provide to make your own keys and sign your activities; the purpose of this is simply to allow secure activity upgrades once they are on the machines. Permission declarations will enumerate which special permissions (camera access? microphone access? non-Tubes network access? etc.) your activity may need for its normal operation.

=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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