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To contribute a story or news idea, see the '''[[OLPC:Newsroom|OLPC newsroom]]'''. |
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=Laptop News 2007-12-30= |
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For coverage of recent OLPC updates, see our [[twitter]] feed and [http://blog.laptop.org OLPC blog]. |
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1. Give One Get One: The G1G1 program ends on December 31. G1G1 has |
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not only made it possible to seed the launch of programs in Haiti, |
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Rwanda, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Mongolia, and Afghanistan, but we have |
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also greatly broadened the community of participation in the project. |
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The community has already jumped in to help: the level of activity in |
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our forums, IRC, email lists, wiki, etc. has risen dramatically over |
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the past few weeks. G1G1 participants have asked lots of questions—and have |
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uncovered some new bugs—but they also have lots of answers—and have |
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submitted some new patches. The community model seems to be scaling. |
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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. |
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Many thanks to Hilary Meserole and the tireless efforts from the teams |
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at Pentagram, Nurun, Eleven, Patriot, and Brightstar. |
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== Upcoming pieces == |
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2. Mary Lou Jepsen: Mary Lou's last day at OLPC is December 31. She |
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; Claudia |
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will be continuing to consult with us on a number of different fronts |
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: Learning Chat piece: 278 words, ready now. [[File:Learning Chat.docx]] |
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as she chases after her next miracle in display technology. Mary Lou |
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: 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. |
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was OLPC employee Number One, both in terms of when she joined the |
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: This can become a 4-part series. |
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organization and in terms of the breadth and depth of her |
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; Antonio: Homo docens: 500+ words, Antonio approved my edits. [[File:Homo docens JLedits.docx]] |
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contributions. Thank you and best of luck with your adventures in a |
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: 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. |
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new role and new year. |
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: Ask for a new piece on the epidemiology of learning |
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; Rodrigo: |
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: [[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]] |
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: 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? |
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; Rwanda: |
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: Rwanda case studies |
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: Ceri Whatley - summary of importance of headmasters - confirm subset to reuse |
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: Social mapping project - 1- or 2-part piece - check w/ Julia |
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: Grandmother project - 2- or 3-part piece - check w/ Julia (and is there more to that awesome series?) |
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; Other Africa |
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: So. Africa case studies |
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; Peru and Uruguay: |
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: ''Oscar B's piece on the IADB study?'' |
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: 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. |
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; Other LatAm: |
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: Colombia: Sandra's quarterly? newsletter and website could feed into this. Plus english translations. |
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: Nicaragua: Regular update, beyond Ometepe? |
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: Paraguay: Contact [[ParaguayEduca]] |
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: Mexico: Ask Mariana @ OLPCMexico |
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; OLPC Australia: Great text and videos. |
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; OLPC Europe: Quarterly update from them? |
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; OLPC Oceania: Quarterly updates from Mike Hutak |
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; OLPC Jamaica: Quarterly update from Sameer, good videos. |
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; North America |
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: Miami - David! and a story from Chester |
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: Canada - Jennifer Martino, Q |
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== News archives == |
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3. Embedded controller (EC): Richard Smith has tested a battery EEPROM |
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dumping feature recently added by Andres Salomon: it seems to work |
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great. Richard has written crontab scripts and "phone home" scripts |
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for inclusion in joyride builds, with the intent to include them in an |
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upcoming release to build an anonymous database of battery |
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performance. These scripts will sample the power used every five |
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minutes and log it. They only sample when the battery is charging or |
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discharging. The hope is to gather a composite view of battery |
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performance under realistic conditions of use. |
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'''[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. |
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Richard noticed that on the community-development list there are at |
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least two reports of the EC going "terminal", meaning that on boot |
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they get the error message: "EC problem. Remove all power and |
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restart." We need to get those machines to Cambridge to investigate |
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further. |
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Archives: [[OLPC:News/Archive 1|2005-2006]] |
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Another issue found on the community-list are reports from a few |
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| [[OLPC:News/Archive 2|2007]] |
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people about their batteries not charging. Richard says this would not |
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| [[OLPC:News/Archive 3|2008]] |
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surprise him if they were NiMH batteries, but G1G1 machines have the |
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| [[OLPC:News/Archive 4|2009-10]] |
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LiFePo batteries. He did had one person run "logbat" and send him the |
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results: the EC reads the battery fine and is attempting to charge the |
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battery but no current ever goes into the battery. Again, we need to |
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get these machines to Cambridge as we haven't seen this behavior |
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before. |
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=== Translations === |
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4. Open Firmware: Mitch Bradley continued to provide G1G1 customer |
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Sporadic translations of news archives from 2008 and earlier can be found here: |
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support, for example, chasing down some problems with SD cards. He |
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: [[OLPC:News/lang-de|German]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-es|Spanish]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ja|Japanese]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ko|Korean]] |
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also added the ability to delete JFFS2 files from Open Firmware and |
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fixed Tickets #5717, #5585, and #5727, all improvements to the overall |
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OFW performance and reliability. Preparations continue on OFW for the |
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Intel prototype XO board. |
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== [[OLPC:Videos|OLPC videos]] == |
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5. Wireless firmware: Marvell released firmware version 5.110.20.p49 |
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For a history of videos about OLPC and the XO, see [http://olpc.tv olpc.tv] and [[OLPC:Videos]]. |
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which addresses Ticket #5194. With this firmware release, all known |
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major low-level bugs have been addressed. With the wireless driver |
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that's in the current ship builds, we see locking errors under heavy |
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load from which the driver recovers automatically. David Woodhouse is |
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doing a major rewrite of the driver which should eventually address |
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that issue. |
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== Sugar news == |
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6. Software ECOs: From time to time there may be critical bug fixes |
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Walter continues to post summaries of Sugar development '''[http://walterbender.org/?cat=3 on his blog]'''. |
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that must be released between our regularly scheduled releases. These |
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may occur due to security issues, from unexpected hardware problems, |
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or the discovery of latent bugs that affect large numbers of users. |
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We've started a page in wiki discuss the software engineering change |
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order (ECO) process (See [[Operating_system_release_procedures]]). |
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== Press == |
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7. Support: The past week has been a busy one for Adam Holt and the |
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For an archive of OLPC media coverage, see the [[OLPC:Press/2005-2008|2005-2008 press archives]]. |
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OLPC support team. Adam has organized a team of 30 support volunteers |
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to comprehensively answer help@laptop.org tickets. (Each ticket is an |
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ongoing email conversation with a donor/client.) The volunteer team is |
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working hard, but keeping up with the support load. Part of the |
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process includes the compilation of a Support FAQ (See [[Support_FAQ]]). Adam is also organizing a |
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"virtual call center" based on asterisk.org VoIP. Matthew O'Gorman is |
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helping finalize the server. Callers will access a local US number in |
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the 617 area code. It will be informal, but we hope it will provide a |
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critical outreach to those users who need it most. We hope to complete |
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testing and possibly an initial rollout within the coming week. |
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== Past announcements == |
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Please everyone recruit your XO-aware friends as: |
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Developed through 2011 by the Racepoint Group, OLPC's ''pro bono'' PR firm. |
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(1) "charming" volunteers to answer phones; and |
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(2) "perfectionist" volunteers to help organize our wiki pages. |
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* 2008-08-06 : [[Media:OLPC-Asia.doc|One Laptop per Child expands its presence in Asia]] with project leads in India and China |
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You can email Adam regarding your talents, motivations, and a phone |
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* 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. |
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number at "holt AT laptop DOT org". Thanks! |
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* 2008-05-15 : [[Media:XP-on-XO.doc|Microsoft Windows XP is now available on the XO laptop]] |
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* 2008-05-03 : [[Media:Kane-appointment.doc|One Laptop per Child appoints Charles Kane as President and Chief Operating Officer]] |
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* 2008-01-07 : [[Media:G1G1-results.doc|One Laptop per Child Giving Campaign Raises $35 Million]] in 2007 |
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* 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] |
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* 2007-12-05 : [[Media:Peru-OLPC.doc|Peru launches OLPC with 40,000 laptops]], starting with one-classroom schools across the country. |
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* 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. |
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* 2007-11-24 : [http://www.50x15.com/en-us/sol_results_xo.aspx The Holiday Season Starts with Giving One Laptop] |
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* 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 |
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* 2007-10-22 : [http://www.businesswire.com/news/google/20071022005302/en One Laptop per Child creates the world's "greenest" laptop computer] |
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* 2007-06-11 : [[Media:Mass-production.doc|Mass Production of XO's begins!]] at Quanta's Chinese facilities. |
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* 2007-01-03 : [http://www.businesswire.com/news/google/20070103005194/en OLPC Announces First-of-Its-Kind User Interface for XO Laptop Computer] |
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There will be an "Organizing Sunday" meeting among our volunteers on |
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30 December, 4PM EST. All interested parties can join if they email |
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Adam first. |
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Noah Kantrowitz has helped to organize the RT system so that |
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volunteers' workflow is more efficient. Instant-response RTFM entries |
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(canned answers auto-pasted into emails) are growing too. |
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[[Category:OLPC]] |
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Chih-yu Chao is helping Adam to answer questions from G1G1 recipients; |
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she has noticed that many parents are asking whether our browser |
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support Flash/Java websites, an area we need to improve upon. |
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Michael Burns of the Oregon State Open Source Lab has been working |
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each night improving and growing the Community Support forum (See |
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http://olpc.osuosl.org/), which is now exceeding 1,000 posts; 200 |
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registered users have answered hundreds of first-time computer |
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questions from G1G1 donors. There is already a growing community of |
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users helping other users on the site. The site includes a live (IRC) |
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chat (See http://olpc.osuosl.org/chat), a feature that works from any |
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computer, including directly from the XO, and a volunteers map (See |
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http://olpc.osuosl.org/forum/phoogle_map.php) that lets developers, |
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enthusiasts and users put a push-pin next to their home town. |
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8. Etoys: 2007 was a busy year for the Etoys team: they made over 700 |
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patches this calendar year. In addition to these code changes, there |
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is new content: examples, help contents, and documentation. Etoys was |
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more or less stable and mature before 2007, but the effort in the year |
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made it even more stable, useful and be fit to the XO platform. |
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Notable improvements and contributions include: sane mathematical |
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operator precedence by Yoshiki Ohshima; better natural language |
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translation by Takashi Yamamiya and Korakurider; display scaling by |
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Andreas Raab; an event recording system (called Event Theatre) by |
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Scott Wallace; a camera interface by Diego Gomez Deck; the World |
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Stethoscope by Kazuhiro Abe; the Quick Guide help system by Kathleen |
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Harness, Ted Kaehler and Yoshiki; drag and drop by Takashi; IPv6 |
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support by Ian Piumarta and Michael Rueger; documentation by Alan Kay, |
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Kim Rose and Rebecca Cannara; and numerous fixes and usability |
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improvements from the Etoys team and community, including |
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contributions by Karl Ramberg and Marcus Denker. |
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In 2007, there were many deadlines in short successions, putting |
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pressure on the team to deliver stable versions—pushing the team |
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towards a conservative approach to development. Many big changes were |
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punted. In hindsight, perhaps delivering some unstable versions with |
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bigger changes would have been better strategy. On the other hand, it |
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is worth to mention that Etoys is one of the most reliable packages |
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over the course of XO development and has seen extensive use in most |
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of the school trials. Kudos to Bert Freudenberg, who maintains the |
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Etoys integration with Sugar (Bert not only led the effort to |
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integrate Etoys with Sugar; he also contributed Sugar's overall |
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development). |
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There were various Etoys-based activities proposed: a programming |
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tutorial called Bots Inc by Stéphane Ducasse; an interactive geometry |
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program called Dr Geo II by Hilaire Hernandez; and education contents |
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suite by Luke Gorrie, Bryan Berry, and the OLPC Nepal developers. |
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"Conservativeness" was a major issue when discussing the possible |
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inclusion of Dr Geo II into the base Etoys image; accommodating such |
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code in a graceful way is a challenge for 2008. |
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9. Translation: One of the last pieces in our Pootle deployment is now |
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in place: a mechanism to update PO template files for each module |
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automatically. Sayamindu Dasgupta has fine tuned the script that does |
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this updating to change POT files only if the strings have changed. |
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(This work is based on Damned Lies, the GNOME translation management |
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system). This helps avoid the redundant updating of PO files. The |
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string-change detection feature will also be useful in the future to |
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detect string-freeze breakages and also to notify translators when new |
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strings are added to a module. |
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This week also saw the first package release of the Update 1 branch to |
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pick up new translators. Thanks to the excellent effort put in by the |
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translators, the Update.1 project (which consisted of the Update 1 |
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branches of the Sugar, Journal activity, Record activity and Browse |
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activity) is, on an average, 50% translated for each language. |
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Languages that have more than 90% of their strings translated are: |
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• Urdu (100%) |
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• Nepali (100%) |
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• Dutch (100%) |
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• Chinese (Taiwan) (100%) |
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• Bengali (100%) |
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• Arabic (100%) |
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• Portuguese (Brazil) (99%) |
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• Portuguese (99%) |
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• Macedonian (99%) |
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• Russian (98%) |
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• Greek (98%) |
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• French (98%) |
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• Chinese (China) (98%) |
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• German (96%) |
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• Mongolian (94%) |
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The focus has shifted to the master branches once again, although |
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language teams are encouraged to update their translations in Update.1 |
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project (there will be another package release for Update.1 that would |
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pick up any new translations). |
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In the middle of the week, Sayamindu also managed to track down a |
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problem in Pootle that was holding up the work being done by the Urdu |
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team. The issue was being caused by a corrupt stats file in the |
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Pootle-Urdu directory. |
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10. Touchpad: Bernardo Innocenti spent much of the week testing a |
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solution to the "jumpy mouse" touchpad bug. We'll soon be pushing out |
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a patch that should cover the majority of touchpad problems. |
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11. Journal: Reinier Heeres wrote a script to copy files from the |
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Journal to the Linux file system (Ticket #5571). This got extended by |
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Phil Bordelon, just like the copy-to-journal script. Reinier also |
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fixed some equation parser issues in the Calculator (Ticket #5734) and |
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an issue with Browse not exiting when a keep error occurred (Ticket |
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#5493). |
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12. Debian: Ivan Krstić is overhauling the OLPC server infrastructure, |
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but also found the time to put together an "unofficial" etch/xfce4 |
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build. It includes Firefox, Thunderbird, a suite of development tools |
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(python, git, gcc, gdb, flex, bison, automake, autoconf, libtool), a |
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music player (XMMS), IRC client (irssi) and a graphical wireless AP |
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selector. The entire build takes up 250MB of flash. Ivan optimized the |
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Firefox window layout to maximum screen estate and configured a number |
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of keyboard shortcuts. |
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13. Cow power: Arjun Sarwal along with the Mumbai team made some good |
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progress on the cow-power system for charging the XO. They made some |
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changes in the electrical design (e.g., using an alternator now |
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instead of a dynamo) and they have a plan regarding the mechanical |
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design based upon a better understanding of what are readily available |
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parts. The current setup easily charges two laptops, however with the |
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planned mechanical design changes, they hope to charge at least ten |
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laptops simultaneously. |
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14. Games: Don Hopkins has been working on the new Micropolis codebase |
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(See http://www.DonHopkins.com/home/micropolis). He has made a web |
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server out of the Micropolis python module for testing and has |
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modularized python code for tile and cellular automation rendering. |
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15. OurStories: Pablo Flores reports that Uruguay will start |
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collecting stories in late January in different localities, like their |
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recent work in Sarand Grande (See |
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http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com/2007/12/day-of-activities-in-sarand-grande.html). |
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Announcements of the site in Spanish and Nigerian languages are being |
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prepared for late January. |
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16. Library: Lauren Klein has been working on interfaces to make |
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generating content bundles easier, starting with forms to generate |
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bundle metadata. Next up are automatic bundlers that check and |
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generate manifests and metadata from uploaded tars and zips (See |
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http://crank.laptop.org/~lauren/libraryInfo/). |
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17. Installing activities: OLPC Austria is improving their "xo-get" |
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command-line script for downloading and installing activities. (The |
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script is a complement to the current process of clicking on .xo files |
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from the Browse activity.) They are making it work with the activities |
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found on the [[Activities]] page, having added a |
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field there to include tags (See |
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http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Xo-get and |
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http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Xo-get/Repository). |
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18. OLPC Communities: Holger Levsen, Aaron Kaplan, and others from |
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Austrian and German OLPC groups spent the last days of the week at the |
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24C3 conference in Berlin, Germany. John Crispin and the OpenWRT |
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contingent showed off OpenWRT booting on an XO and let a growing |
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number of XOs share their space. At one point there were over 20 XOs |
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in use in the area, most in the hands of developers and early G1G1 |
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arrivals. |
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OLPC Switzerland is having its first meeting January 15 in Bern, |
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organized by Michele Notari (See [[OLPC_Switzerland]]). |
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Greg DeKoenigsberg and Jack Aboutbol are starting to organize a social |
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and musical OLPC event in New York City for next August. They are |
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presenting a proposal to the NYC parks and recreation committee next |
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Friday. |
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19. Developer community: Almost 1000 developers are active in our Trac |
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system (http://dev.laptop.org). There are thousands more contributors |
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to wiki.laptop.org and to various fori, mailing lists, IRCs, etc. This |
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participation is invaluable to the success of OLPC mission. We'd like |
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to thank, among others: |
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a-12, aalam, abelay, abrar.momin, aconbere, adeighton, adetola, |
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admford, adricnet, aegis, aenertia, aferti, afranke, agdelma, ahmad, |
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ajax, akauppi, akeemolabiyi, alagu, albertcahalan, aleph, alexandre, |
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alexl, alfonsodg, als, altemusm, alxx, ambros, amitgogna, andic, |
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andreasraab, andre.mossinato, andrey, angel, angieklein123, angus, |
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anna chang, annegentle, ant, antoninoiacono, antonio correia, |
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antoniojf, approvalforupdate, aprodan, arangelangov, arauto, |
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argento78, ariana, arjs, arnd, arnold, aroscha, artpro, arvinliu, |
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ashish, ashsong, assim, astein, atodorov, aturist, aumana, avocade, |
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avoine, awjrichards, awong9702, axboe, bamdad, bananascanner, barbolo, |
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barry, bart massey, basil, bbaston, bbbush, bcavagnolo, bcsaller, |
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bdoin, beaubrewer, beauty, beckerde, behdad, behnam, bemasc, benzea, |
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bernie, bert, bertl, bfcatfriends, biarm, bigbaaadbob, bigwally, |
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bilboed, billaspell, billjank, bill_mcgonigle, billy, bjfreeman, |
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bkublik, blahedo, blanchet, blankverse, blix, blizzard, bluefoxicy, |
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blueyed, bmcarnes, bnardone, bob, bobbysmith007, bobkeyes, |
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boujelbenhichem, brainrecall, briandorsey, briandorsey, bronson, |
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bryan.ma, bss, bsugarse, btate, budbird, buendia, byodo, c9damico, |
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cafl, cak, calyth, campbell, candy, candy lu, candy_man, cannonjt, |
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carl2, carla, carlfk, carlofalciola, carrano, cavallo, cbramsey, |
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cdoty, cdurrett, cgalpin, chaos, chatworthy, cheetahman, chenz, |
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chiaying.lin, chihyu, chitraspai, chrisb143, christianmarc, |
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christophd, christoph_hagemeyer, chuck, cialis, cihan, ciscos151, cjb, |
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c.kutzleb, clifft135, cmeadors, cmusodza, coderanger, codyl, colonwq, |
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company, corbet, crazy-chris, crazymonk, crichardson, crouchjay, |
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crschmidt, cscott, cshields, csounder, csutton, curlydude007, cwhii, |
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cworth, cycho, czhower, dabender, daf, damonkohler, danarnold, |
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dandelion, danerogers, danielfuhry, daniher, daniher, danjared, |
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dan_margo, danw, dao, dark314, davidgr, david_leeh, david.lin, |
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davidpfarrell, davidz, dbpatterson, dcbw, dcolivares, ddhoppe, ddo, |
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dds, deanbrettle, deborah hanley, dedekind, dennisdanso, |
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dennisfrancis, desertgojo, devinliu, devlware, devwillie, dgd, |
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dgilmore, dhabersa, dhopkins, dhuff, dialectric, diegozacarao, |
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dilinger, diyoung, djbclark, djihed, djneu, dking, dlang, dmd, docdtv, |
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dolphinling, doom, douglas_goodall, drewish, dulouz, duncanb, |
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dushyantgautam, dvsullivan, dwmw2, dyd, dydimustk, dysumner, ea, |
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ealtin, eamaya, ebelechukwu2005, eben, ebf, ebodfish, ebotee, |
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echeonwugbenu, edbatalha, ediaz, edsiper, edstoner, edwardbaafi, |
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eenii, ejkrohne, eli amesefe, elife, elijah, elite231, |
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elizabeth251964, elranchero, elvis, elyip, emilmont, enalax, enjahova, |
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eric, eric, erick, ericsilva2, erikb, erikhatcher, erikos, eteo, |
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ethrop, etoys, evenremy, fab, fabiand, fabiomarcio, factor, fade, |
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faga, fahmi, fayoeu, fc, fciron, fdraeger, felix01, feranick, |
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fernandodotnet, ffm, fgrose, fhill, finalzone, fiorella, fireball, |
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firewing1, florentin_raud, foddex, follower, fongoses, foot, |
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franka001, frazermarge, frief, fuseproject, gabaug, garlick, garrison, |
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gary, garysu, gauravchem, gauthierancelin, gblaufuss, gbulfon, |
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gcarrier, gcase, gcerchio, gdesmott, george rey, george yeager, |
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gesmit, gfw123, ghopper, gi693362, giangy, giles, glezos, glochan, |
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gnrfan, gnu, godiard, gonzalo, grantbow, greg, gregdek, gregm, gregt, |
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gregthompson, grendelt, grenoble, griffithbuilt, grig, gustavo, |
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gustavoo, gwlc, gwright, h7bse1c, hai, hal, hal, hallie, hal.murray, |
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hamed, happyolpc, hartwellfong, hartwellfong, hazardouswaster, |
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hchennings, hello1024, hemantg, henninger, hiper, hitoro, hmes, |
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hoboprimate, holger, holt, holtzman, homunq, hopsman, hsin wu, |
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hsin.wu, huangcza, hughsient, hummingbird, humptybump, hyppy, ianb, |
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ianissitt, iceberg, iknowjoseph, indradg, indutiomarus, info_anarchy, |
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intrader, irish_moss, isforinsects, ismaell, ivazquez, ivo, j5, |
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jaberg, jack, jackeyzhao, jafo, jaimebalb, jaing, jake h, jamesm, |
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jamespaige, jamil, jani, jaq, jason liu, jayakumar, jbarahona, |
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jcallas, jcardona, jcfrench, jdub, jecel, jeckson, jennjacobsen, |
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jenny2, jensjorgensen, jeremyvisser, jeroentb, jerub, jerub, |
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jfallgatter, jfc, jfuhrer, jg, jherzog, jhuangtw, jhulten, jiffy, |
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jimfare, jim.morey, jirwin, jlstomp66, jm3, joaoboscoapf, jochang, |
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joebergin, joeclark, joeywang, john, johnkemeny, johnlin, johnson, |
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jondo, jonknee, jonsd, jordancrouse, jorgecortes, josepht, joshseal, |
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jpff, jpritikin, jrus, juanayup, juliano, julibio, junia, junwiseman, |
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jwildebo, k2nt23, karl, karmaflux, kayseon, kazuhiro abe, kenh, ken |
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lin, kentquirk, kenwatford, kevinprt, kfieldho, khaled, khassounah, |
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kiddo, kimquirk, kim rose, kiran, kityoko, kkv, konrad1134, |
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konrad_kleine, korakurider, kraetzichriz, kreneskyp, krstic, kruemel, |
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ksankar, kylesteinfatt, kylin, larryapple, lathiat, laural, lauren, |
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lbenavente, lcatania, lcbiazon, leejc, leemingd, leetcharmer, |
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legolas558, legutierr, lenkawell, lferre, liam henry, lileeanna, |
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linagee, lincolnquirk, lionstone, lmaltin, lmanul, lorenzen, lrhowa5, |
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lucia, lucks, luisca, lukego, luna, lwalter42, ma895907, mac, madcat, |
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madd, magnum34, mako, maku, mallum, mantaraya36, mantas, manu, |
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manusheel, marcelo, marco, marcos ficarelli, marcus, markharrison, |
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martine, martin.langhoff, martoro, martyvis, marv, massimo, mathew, |
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maurotorres, maxim_o, mbletsas, mbrubeck, mburns, mcalef, mcfletch, |
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mchehab, mchenetz, mchua, mduvigneaud, melekim, methril, meyers, |
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mfoster, mi370560, michael, michael.tiemann, midiwall, miguelon, |
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mihai, mihi, mikelee_aarp, mikes, mikus, mime, mitchellncharity, mitu, |
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mjr, mk8, mkgobaco, mleech, mlj, mohsen, mokurai, monkeyfork, monyu, |
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morgs, morningstar, moshez, motherhoose, mpal, mpdevine, mrdomino, |
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m.scott, msevior, mstone, mtklein, mucca, muccini, murielgodoi, |
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murray, murrays, musallam, mvirkkil, myles, mylesb, nacholudo, |
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nalrawahi, nandoa, nasa, nat, nathalia.sautchuk, naustin, ncorrare, |
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nelhage, nelson, neptune, newsham, ni762428, nibhatish, nicomy, |
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ninjakitten, nirmal, nitin, nnorwitz, nolambar, nornagon, nrp, nuke, |
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nuwdle, obc_spike, oeka, ohm, ohshima, okada, olafura, ollybetts, |
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ondal, openspark, orospakr, osbornisle, osmosys, otakuj462, ozwald, |
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pacease, pamela.dallas, pascal, path, paul, paulproteus, pavel, pavel, |
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pd, peiwei, pekayatt, pengo, pepboy, pepboy, perlhacker, peter, |
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peter.lorenzen, petria, pezhman, phil, philipmac, phollings, php5, |
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pierre, pierreossman, ping, pmj, pnasrat, polvi, ponafarioli, power |
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guo, pr3d4t0r, prasanna, prashant.thakkar, probono, pvanhoof, |
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pwiltsey, pwr, py_geek, pzelenka, qq, quantumcat, quantumg, quozl, |
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rabeeh, rafaelortiz, ramaseshanr, raven, ravikondamuru, ravualhemio, |
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ray.tseng, rbh00, rbhagwat, rblengio, rbwjrw, rcauk, rchokshi, |
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rdebath, rdike, rdobson, rebecca, rebecca, rebecca allen, rebeccag, |
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rebeccagettys, redpawn, reg, regan20, reillysl, rejon, reservedoc, |
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retired_techie, retroplumido, reynaldo, rgs, rharrison, rhindak, |
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rhindak, richard, richie.wang, riv, rj_dean, rkevans, rminnich, |
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robertfadel, robot101, robsta, rock, rodarvus, roel, roozbeh, rorrim, |
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roscherfr, roubert, roy, rsavoye, rsmith, rsriniva, rtlm, ruby, |
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russnelson, rwh, ry313323, ryankelln, ryant5000, ryebo1, sabu, sam, |
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samuel bizien, sandeepdutta, sankarshan, santanu, sarahmoodoo, |
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saramah, satch89450, satyajeet, sayamindu, sbelter, scomst, |
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scott_kirkwood, scottwallace, sdalvi, seberg, segher, seph, |
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seralewise, sero189, shailen, shang, shankar, sharon, shekay, shenki, |
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shiu, sholton, sierrahombre, simon, simon, simosx, sirjuanlu, sj, sjg, |
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sjoerd, skeezix, skiboo, skierpage, slasc, sleet01, smcv, smetz52, |
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smohan, spacey, spditner, splinux, sprezzatura, ssb22, ssc, sssss, |
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steck, steeg, stepheneb, steveb, steve fullerton, stevew, stevo, |
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stoecker, stoutbigred, stressyndrome, sturnfie, subbu, sulmanminhas, |
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sunny, sverma, svu, swagle, sxpert, syd, sylvinus, s.zytkiewicz, t3, |
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tags07, takashi, talmage, tamichan, tannewt, tbpringle, te294177, |
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tedch, ted.juan, tedkaehler, teefal, term, terry su, tess, testing, |
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teus, tf, theperturbator, thiago_s, timbutler, tim.millerdyck, titus, |
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tomeu, tomhannen, tonsofpcs, toygmail, trapdoor, trevor, tribleyl, |
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trobertson, tsylla, tudd, turadg, tushards, twinkle, uden, ufg, |
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uflchamp, ujwal2, usman ansari, usman.ansari, uwog, vadim, vance.ke, |
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vandien, vasukrishnan, vbhunt, vegpuff, vgiasolli, victorchao, |
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victor-y, vjohn, vmb, voden, vorburger, vradok, wad, wadeb, walter, |
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wangwebbxydd, waqastoor, warp, watchhillfarm, wcohen, weixiang, |
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wenmi01, we.three.tees, wildem, williamb68, wiswaud, wkraimer, wmb, |
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wmfwlr, wolf, wolfgang, wvbailey, wwworkshop shannon, wwworkshop |
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terrence, wybiral, xardox, xatzipe, xavi, xiang.wei, xorAxAx, yani, |
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ychao, yhosoai, yosch, youssef, ypod, ywwg, zack, zakarpatska, |
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zapador, zarcher, znmeb, zogger50, zoltanthegypsy, zwl821022, and |
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zztopd. |
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Best wishes for the new year. |
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20. Special thanks: As mentioned, the contributions to the project |
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have been numerous and diverse. However, I'd like to acknowledge one |
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contributor who has quietly been playing a central role in perhaps the |
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most critical user-facing aspect of the OLPC effort, Sugar. Red Hat's |
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Marco Pesenti Gritti seems to never rest; he never tires of answering |
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questions, writing patches, and engaging in design discussions. His |
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productivity is monumental; his insights are invaluable. |
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=More News= |
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=[[Milestones]]= |
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=[[PRESS|Press]]= |
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=[[Video of the OLPC | Video]]= |
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Miscellaneous videos of the laptop can be found [[Video of the OLPC|here]]. |
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* A Frappr Map of G1G1 recipients can be found at [http://www.frappr.com/?a=constellation_map&mapid=137440255169&src=flash_map&sig=visitor_map&src_mvid=137440332484&origin=unknown&ct=seemore] |
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* A collection of several videos can found at [http://www.olpc.tv OLPC.TV] |
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* IBM Podcast, Walter Bender on One Laptop per Child [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/podcast/dwi/cm-int042407.html] |
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* Ivan Krstić delivers a [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4285568518538296189 technical presentation of OLPC] at the Google TechTalk series |
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*60 Minutes, What if Every Child had a Laptop [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/20/60minutes/main2830058.shtml] |
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*CNN, Should Intel Fear $100 Laptop? [http://money.cnn.com/services/video/] |
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*Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/07/25/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-04/ Episode Four] |
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*Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/06/08/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-03/ Episode Three] |
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*Red Hat Magazine: Ins/ide One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/04/25/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-02/ Episode Two] |
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*Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/03/23/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-one/ Episode One] |
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*Portuguese lecture "Perspectivas do uso de laptops pelas crianças (e nas escolas)". Video in [http://www.cameraweb.unicamp.br/acervo/acervo.html Cameraweb Unicamp] |
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* Ivan Krstić delivers a [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4285568518538296189 technical presentation of OLPC] at the Google TechTalk series |
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*60 Minutes, What if Every Child had a Laptop [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/20/60minutes/main2830058.shtml] |
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*CNN, Should Intel Fear $100 Laptop? [http://money.cnn.com/services/video/] |
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*Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/07/25/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-04/ Episode Four] |
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*Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/06/08/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-03/ Episode Three] |
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*Red Hat Magazine: Ins/ide One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/04/25/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-02/ Episode Two] |
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*Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/03/23/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-one/ Episode One] |
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* 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 |
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*Interview with Nicholas Negroponte [http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/jan2006/clips/nicholas_negroponte.mov on the &100 Laptop] |
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*Presentation by Jim Gettys at [http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/03/07/one-laptop-per-child/ FOSDEM 2007] |
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*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] |
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*Mark Foster delivers presentation to [http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/061004-ee380-300.asx Stanford University] |
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* Technology Review [http://www.technologyreview.com/video/laptop Mini-Documentary][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 |
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*Interview with Nicholas Negroponte [http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/jan2006/clips/nicholas_negroponte.mov on the &100 Laptop] |
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*Presentation by Jim Gettys at [http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/03/07/one-laptop-per-child/ FOSDEM 2007] |
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*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] |
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*Mark Foster delivers presentation to [http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/061004-ee380-300.asx Stanford University] |
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* Technology Review [http://www.technologyreview.com/video/laptop Mini-Documentary] |
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* A Brief [http://www.radiofarda.com/Article/2007/01/04/f2_Interview-laptop.html Demo] |
Latest revision as of 23:06, 5 August 2013
To contribute a story or news idea, see the OLPC newsroom.
For coverage of recent OLPC updates, see our twitter feed and OLPC blog.
This page historically hosted announcements and news about OLPC, along with the Sugar Labs current events page.
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:
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.
- 2008-08-06 : One Laptop per Child expands its presence in Asia with project leads in India and China
- 2008-05-20 : One Laptop per Child frames the next generation of the revolutionary XO laptop, with a lighter dual-touchscreen design.
- 2008-05-15 : Microsoft Windows XP is now available on the XO laptop
- 2008-05-03 : One Laptop per Child appoints Charles Kane as President and Chief Operating Officer
- 2008-01-07 : One Laptop per Child Giving Campaign Raises $35 Million in 2007
- 2007-12-12 : The Kite Runner Inspires Gift Through One Laptop
- 2007-12-05 : Peru launches OLPC with 40,000 laptops, starting with one-classroom schools across the country.
- 2007-12-04 : Birmingham, Alabama commits to One Laptop per Child, with a pilot of 15,000 laptops across the city.
- 2007-11-24 : The Holiday Season Starts with Giving One Laptop
- 2007-10-29 : OLPC wins a bid to provide 100,000 laptops to children in Uruguay, to be overseen by the Uruguayan CEIBAL project
- 2007-10-22 : One Laptop per Child creates the world's "greenest" laptop computer
- 2007-06-11 : Mass Production of XO's begins! at Quanta's Chinese facilities.
- 2007-01-03 : OLPC Announces First-of-Its-Kind User Interface for XO Laptop Computer