OLPC:News

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This page historically hosted announcements and news about OLPC, along with the Sugar Labs current events page.

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

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