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=Laptop News 2007-11-10=
1. Cambridge: The first of the monthly learning workshops was held at OLPC this week. More than 60 people from 14 countries (and one US city) attended. The focus of this workshop was to build a stronger understanding of laptops and learning; to make plans for deployment in the countries; and to build a strong community among the participants for ongoing support and collaboration. The energy, ideas, and excitement among the group was fantastic and gave everyone more hope about the learning potential about to be unleashed as laptops begin arriving in large numbers in countries shortly. Many thanks to David Cavallo, Lindsay Petrillose, and the OLPC learning team for all of their efforts.


For coverage of recent OLPC updates, see our [[twitter]] feed and [http://blog.laptop.org OLPC blog].
2. Cyberspace: Larry Weber’s dream of a digital PSA has been realized: Hilary Meserole reports that our first Give One Get One public service announcement, which features Heroes star Masi Oka, is online (See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQbtebeftyA]). The team is working with YouTube on ways to feature this on their home page during the fortnight that the campaign is running. We will be adding more content next week—outtakes from the PSA shoot, etc.


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.
Masi has joined OLPC as our media spokesperson.


== Upcoming pieces ==
3. Give One Get One launches at 6AM EST on Monday (See laptopgiving.org). While we have no idea what the response will be, Hilary and the “volunteer army” that includes Pentagram, Nurun, W2, Racepoint, Digital Influence Group, Eleven, Inc., and Len Fink did a fantastic job raising the public awareness of the campaign. Examples include the beautiful full-page ad that was donated by the Economist (See [[:Image:GiveOneGetOne.pdf]]). We will be able to reach many more children due to their efforts.
; 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 ==
4. Mass production started this week this week in Quanta's new factory in Changshu. We would like to take this time to thank the team at Quanta for their support over the last two years. Major contributors to the effort include: Victor Chao, Gary Chiang, Arnold Kao, Matt Huang, Dandy Hsu, Agnes Huang, Johnson Huang, Frank Lee, Roger Huang, Elvis Wu, S.F. Chen, Ken Lin, Jacky Mu, Paying Liu, Terry Su, Alfred Lin, Gary Chiang, Alice Wang, Alan Lio, Jeff Tarng, Tim Huang, Jeffrey Huang, Rita Chen, Joe Lin, Jeff Yu, Ben Chuang, Sam Yeh, Johnnie Lui, Eric Tasi, Bruce Lu, Jeff Huang, Mikko Hsu, Vance Ke, Luna Huang, David Lin, Bryan Ma, Devin Lui, Arvin Lui, John Lin, Tess Yu, Chia Ying Lin, Gary Su, C.H. Yang, Ray Tseng, Sam Chang, Gary Liu, Lori Yang, Frank Feng, Cooper Zhou, Kaiser Feng, Neptune Zhan, Xiang Wei, Zihaw Zhang, Min Xia, Eagle Liang, Peter Huang, Pillar Hou, Yaya Zhang, Crystal Sun, Nana Pei, Bob Zhang, Yengeng Cen, Ian Huang, Chie-Hung Li, Sunny Cheng, Cancer Zha, Fly Chen, Javin Hu, Grubby Wei, Polin Chang, Anna Zhou, Tim Huang, Jim Chang, Eric Wang, Kenny Chung, Zenith Zhu, Rock Chien, Sunny Hsiung, Kiki Peng, Sunny Huang, Barry Lam, Michael Wang, Morse Chen, and Eddy Chao.


'''[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.
There are many other people—from companies such as Marvel, ChiLin, Himax, CMO, AMD, ENE, QMI, Fuse Project, Gecko, Pentagram, Design Continuum, Foxconn, ALPS, and MIT, and many individuals as well—who have contributed to the hardware and mechanicals over the past three years. (Mary Lou Jepsen is pulling together a list of everyone to thank.) Collectively we have achieved something that just three years ago many believed that was an impossible dream.


Archives: [[OLPC:News/Archive 1|2005-2006]]
5. Safety Certification: Behind the scenes another team (from UL, Quanta, and OLPC) has been quietly working for nearly two years on XO safety certification. The XO laptop is now fully compliant with UL safety requirements and has been thus certified. We have also been awarded radio, power, and system certification at national levels in several countries. We can now legally ship in US, Canada, Uruguay, and Peru, as well as many other countries. EU-wide approval is due in approximately a week. We are still in the process of applying for certification in countries on each continent with the most stringent safety standards.
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 2|2007]]
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 3|2008]]
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 4|2009-10]]


=== Translations ===
Among many tests, we have passed Ul/IEC 60950-1 (notebook computer), ASTM F693 (electronic toys for children), UL 1301 (mechanical assembly requirements, including larger face dimension requirements for child safety) and UL 2054 (batteries), as well as a passing UL on-site inspection of the Quanta's factory. We have formal RoHS (low toxicity) certification from Quanta, and independent testing of RoHS compliance by UL. Also, we have been safety approved for lap use—XO is the first “laptop” approved for usage on one's lap in many years. (The reason that most laptops are now called “notebook computers” is that they run too hot for safe lap use.)
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]] ==
Many thanks to the core XO safety teams from UL, Quanta, and OLPC: Katherine Sims, Bob Delisi, Nicole Tatum, Kevin Ravi, Stacy Yu, Tom Burke, Derek Chen, Edgar Wolff-klammer, Tammi Gengegbacher, Greg Monty, Alfred Fung, Nicholas Boten, Seth Carlton, Bruce Lu, Kenny Chung, Victor Chao, Rita Chen, Arnold Kao, Mary Lou Jepsen, and Lindsay Petrillose.
For a history of videos about OLPC and the XO, see [http://olpc.tv olpc.tv] and [[OLPC:Videos]].


== Sugar news ==
6. Richard Smith has been setting up a suspend/resume manufacturing test and getting the process flow set up so that Quanta can do final quality analysis (FQA). Activation of laptops (part of the anti-theft system) presented a problem since the FQA process pulls laptops after the final shipping image has been installed and security has been enabled. We decided that the best way to deal with FQA is to pull FQA machines prior to enabling security and then enable it as the final part of FQA.
Walter continues to post summaries of Sugar development '''[http://walterbender.org/?cat=3 on his blog]'''.


== Press ==
7. Firmware: Mitch Bradley released firmware Q2D04 as a candidate for Update.1. It has wireless-networking improvements and bug fixes and can be used to update the NAND Flash ROM over the wireless network (from the school server).
For an archive of OLPC media coverage, see the [[OLPC:Press/2005-2008|2005-2008 press archives]].


== Past announcements ==
Working with Javier Cardona, Mitch discovered the root cause on a wireless firmware problem that was breaking wireless support in Q2D03. There was a time window during which the module reported the wrong MAC address. This was not affecting the Linux driver because it had an arbitrary delay to block access during that gap. Marvell promises a proper fix in the next few days.
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
8. Wireless: Javier Cardona and Ricardo Carrano's efforts in debugging the open issues with the wireless subsystem are producing results. We now know the mechanism by which the driver fails (mishandling of a BUSY result returned from the firmware to a scan request); efforts are now focusing on finding the reason as to why that mishandling has such severe impact in the overall subsystem operation.
* 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]


Marvell released wireless firmware version 5.110.20.p0 which incorporates many enhancements requested by OLPC, including mesh running-state control, mesh beacon control, and throughput optimizations. After resolving the existing issues, the Marvell team is going to mainly focus on power optimization for the firmware.


James Cameron tested the developer version of the active antennae (See [http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2007-11-10-active-antenna/]). The antennae performed easily over the range, no doubt aided by being
held at between 3m and 4m above ground. James reports that they hit the length limit of the test range before any significant bandwidth reduction was felt. We received the first 30 active antennae preproduction boards from QMI in Cambridge this week and completed a first round of testing without any issues.


[[Category:OLPC]]
9. Schedule update: There are only three weeks left to get the Update.1 release out the door. This week we focused on testing and some bug fixing; but not as many “Joyride” builds as lately—C. Scott Ananian has been concentrating on assembling the pieces for the first Update.1 builds. He expects that we will have this done over the weekend. The overarching goal for the Update.1 release is stability of the Trial-3 functionality; we are also folding in many new frameworks—such as security and the new tubes system; the goal is to have these frameworks in place without their causing regressions. One new feature we are are adding is robust upgrades, preferably via wireless network.

10. Testing: Ricardo has been detailing Ticket #4470—infrastructure mode failing over time—and assembling meaningful logs for the team to work with. Javier is going through these logs. Ricardo also finished installing network “sniffing” devices for our network testbed as part of the debug process. Ricardo and Yani Galanis tested the range of two laptops that were brought back from field-testing at the Khairat school in Munbai, India. Their tests revealed normal behavior. (In the field, they exhibited unusually poor WiFi range.) Ricardo and Yani have also been testing different antenna designs to establish long-distance wireless links.

Alex Latham has been testing Joyride, filing bug reports and uncovering the many regressions expected as we pull so many new bits together. He hasn’t yet completed a full “1-hour smoke test” with an of the Joyride builds—Scott’s Update.1 build series is expected to be more stable. Alex has also begun testing with security enabled. He also helped John Watlington set up a testbed for our mass-production hardware.

Manny Castillo has been testing the Browser activity with specific URLs chosen to exercise various plugins—such as Gnash—on Build 623; he will be testing with Joyride next week.

11. Sugar: Marco Gritti, Michael Stone, and Tomeu Vizoso worked on the integration of the Rainbow security system with Sugar and the DataStore (and Journal). They enabled activity isolation on Tuesday and solved all the known road blockers in the following days: access to
audio and video resources; communication with the DataStore; activity-space directories and their permission; and out-of-container activities. Next week we will need a new round of testing; Marco is confident that we will be able to solve the remaining problems quickly.

Marco rewrote the preview code to be much more efficient; it blocks for only the minimal required time. Switching between views and closing
activities is now much faster and the previews are saved reliably. Marco temporarily disabled the startup sound in sugar to avoid blocking the sound device and tracked down the problem with muted audio at startup. Sound is expected to be finally back working fully in the next build.

Tomeu implement a basic search in the mesh view, which greatly facilitates finding people on a crowded network; he exposed files from the DataStore to activities using hard links instead of doing a copy; and he made the DataStore's use of the temporary file space more efficient.

Reinier Heeres added a way to switch between activities using ALT-Tab; fixed some issues with left-right inversion for Arabic; disabled closing the Journal with CTRL-Q; and implemented a short-term solution to the problem of the “donut” on the home page not accurately reflecting activity memory usage. Reinier is working currently fixing some palette issues.

12. Activities: The Etoys team continues to make adjustments to the Sugar and Rainbow (security) system changes being introduced for Update.1; Bert Freudenberg is leading this effort. Yoshiki Ohshima and Bert have provided an improved version of Sugar menu bar; Yoshiki, Bert, and Scott Wallace put together the necessary bits to provide better “view source” experience—all of the code for Etoys can now be viewed without any degradation. Ted Kaehler and Kathleen Harness have been improving the help system for Etoys. Takashi Yamamiya and korakurider have stabilized the localization mechanism. Takashi also experimented a different UI for controlling choices in tiles.

Simon Schampijer and Mark Maurer collaborated on getting “view source” working fluidly between the Browse and Write activities. By typing FN-Space (or CTRL+U) in Browse, the HTML source of the current page is opened in Write. The HTML can be edited in Write and when resumed from the Journal the modified page gets interpreted and displayed. While doing this work, they tracked down and fixed a new issue with the DataStore: it had been losing metadata between reboots.

13. Builds: C. Scott Ananian continued to work on forking the new stable Update.1 branch and stabilizing our build process. He setup download.laptop.org, mock.laptop.org, and pilgrim.laptop.org, which you should see being pressed into use in the next week. Scott also updated the Libertas firmware in the builds and refreshed the mesh testbed, with an eye towards testing the new firmware in a realistic network upgrade scenario. He should be able to run that test on Monday.

This week Andres Salomon cleaned up the kernel build scripts, made them auto-generate change logs, and dealt with getting updated kernels into joyride. Joyride builds now include sane kernels. Andres also did minor Libertas testing, and is in the process of debugging USB issues.

14. Power management: James Cameron and Chris Ball worked on some OHM (power manager) bugs. Once those were out of the way, Chris went on to implement some of our power management features: “suspend on idle” is in place; there is now a distinction between “suspend” (screen and wireless still on, wake up on network traffic or key press) and “sleep” (screen off, only wake up on a power-button press). There are a few more OHM bugs to fight before this is ready to land in Joyride/Update.1, which should happen sometime early next week.

15. Localization: Sayamindu Dasgupta and Xavier Alvarez have successfully completed the first phase of the Pootle installation. All of the translation files are in place. A number of users have signed up and have already started to submit translations in the form of suggestions. A discussion in the #olpc-pootle channel on how to best integrate an external project's translation-related files into our Pootle setup has let to an improved workflow for external projects that want to take
advantage of our translation infrastructure.

Currently, we have translators for the following languages signed up: Amharic, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (traditional), French, German, Greek, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish. Additional translators and languages are needed, particularly for the Indic languages, Quechua, and Aymara.

The next stage of the Pootle deployment will consist of making the GIT integration work—we are waiting for GIT write access to dev.laptop.org to go forward on that. A set of frequently asked questions (FAQ) has been created in the wiki (See [[Pootle/FAQ]]).

Sayamindu has been looking at an issue where fontconfig seems to treat the font cache invalid if the mtime of the cache is greater than the system time. This is documented in Ticket #1525 (and in upstream Freedesktop bug #12107). Sayamindu had backported the relevant changes to the fontconfig used in Fedora 7; he will be testing out the package in the XO over the weekend.

16. Security: Michael Stone announced a new release of Rainbow (See [http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=234221]) to the devel and sugar lists today. The release incorporates a number of resolutions to the current crop of 'rainbow-integration' bugs that the community has worked so hard over the last three days to document for us.

Changes include:
* relaxed multimedia-device permissions that should make it possible for activities to use the camera, microphone, and speakers;
* availability of the user's public key;
* activities are now started in $SUGAR_BUNDLE_PATH instead of $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT;
* activities can run under “strace” by defining the environment variable RAINBOW_STRACE_LOG (in the dictionary passed to Rainbow in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sugar/activity/activityfactory.py);
* tracebacks of your activity's log file can be viewed with “less -R” (e.g., less -R /home/olpc/.sugar/default/logs/org.laptop.Record-1.log);

Special thanks Marco, Tomeu, and Alex L. for their extraordinary efforts.

17. Community reporting: Dan Sutera and the team working on the Report activity made it to the next round of the Knight News Challenge. Pablo Flores is working on something similar in Uruguay, and has found some federal support to develop local blogs from children, stored at the local schools. We discussed how the projects could work together; Pablo is focusing on the web activity that would help editors arrange blog feeds into beautiful editions, and the Report team is working on an XO activity that would let children read and write blog and news feeds. Meanwhile, Jack Driscoll, former editor of the ''Boston Globe''—who has been leading community journalism projects around the world for over ten years—has put some journalism guidelines in the wiki (See [[Learning_activities/Journalism]]).

18. SimCity: SimCity is now available under the GPL, thanks to the generosity of EA and the hard work of Steve Seabolt and Chuck Normann, John Gilmore, and Don Hopkins (See [[SimCity]]). The game is in the process of being “sugarized”, but is already playable on the XO. This is one of the first times that a major publisher has open sourced the original of a popular title (See [
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Commercial_video_games_with_freely_available_source-code]). EA should be congratulated.

19. Game Jams: A competitive game jam is under way this weekend in São Carlos, Brazil, with the support of a number of local universities and sponsors. Any who are interested in their progress are welcome to follow along in #olpc-content on IRC; they are looking for outside help with art and music for the developed games (See [[Game_Jam_Brazil]]). In advance of the CMU game jam next weekend, the ETC team at Carnegie Mellon university has finished a draft of its first game, a peg solitaire affair (See [http://www.olpcgames.org/]).

20. Community: A discussion with Greg DeKoenigsberg about how to involve more Fedora developers in OLPC work led to some work on improving test and review processes for activities and bundles (See [[Activity_Testing_Project]]).

=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:
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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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