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OLPC Weekly 'zine	2008 January 1- Feburary 10
Volume 0 : Blasting off the pilot issue !	<<< Prev - Index - Next >>>

GO: Spotlight - Media-Press - WikiNews - Software - Hardware - Education - Forum - eMail - i18n - Countries - Photos - Whatnot

Zine Volunteers - Editorial Board
Executive-producer (with-funny-hat) Editor-in-feathered-hat: Copy-editor/Proof reader: Interview/profiles: Media/Press: Wiki Summary: Software/development: Education/research: Mailing List/annoucements: l10n and support updates: Country and trial schools: Photos/Flickr: Admins, vandals, whatnot: Translations:	? Iain (irc : ixo) ? Seth (irc:isforinsects) ? Phil B. (irc : Phil_Bordelon) ? Seth (irc : isforinsects) ? Seth (irc : isforinsects) ? Iain (irc : ixo) ? Phil B. (irc : Phil_Bordelon) ? Mel (irc : mchua) ? vacant (irc : ?) ? Adric (irc : adric_work) ? vacant (irc : ?) ? Seth (irc : isforinsects) ? Firefoxman (irc : ffm) Sj

Welcome

Greetings. . . . .

I want to welcome you to our first initial pilot issue of the OLPC Weekly News. Several weeks in the making... We have assembled a great team of volunteers to help assemble summaries of the vast amount of OLPC information available. The hope is to help keep everyone informed on what's going on, what's new, and what's coming up...

I hope you like it. And if you are excited for future issues, or have something to contribute, please don't hesitate to drop any of our editorial board a note. As we expand and cover more areas, we will also be looking for more volunteers to give us a hand, please contact us if interested.

Here's what this issue contains. . .

Spotlight

• Would you sell your company and travel halfway around the world to volunteer full-time, unpaid, on a project with people you've never met, in a language you don't speak, and in a land with terrible coffee... for 9 months? Bernie Innocenti, one of OLPC's major contributors in graphics and internationalization software, did just that. ... See Full Article
• When a young man with a G1G1 en-route is scheduled to deploy to the Peace Corps in Uganda before his XO arrives, the volunteer community springs into action. ... See Full Article

• This week, we cover the clever Speak activity by Josh Minor. Warning: Googly eyes, Martians, and ridiculous pop-culture references inside!.. See Full Article

In the Media

• Items in the media and press about OLPC (also add links to Press page)
• other news from OLPC ... See Full Article

WikiNews

• New Wiki Adminstrators
• New Interwiki links
• General improvements, Wiki areas of hot activity.
• Other OLPC Wiki updates ... See Full Article

Software

• This week, we cover the clever Speak activity by Josh Minor. Warning: Googly eyes, Martians, and ridiculous pop-culture references inside!.. See Full Article

Hardware

• Hardware updates. ... See Full Article

Education

• Education/research projects ... See Full Article