OLPC:News

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Upcoming pieces

Learning Chat piece (278 words)

Making Learning Visible - Claudia's (& Walter) original is 25 pages. I've removed the OLPC Background and got it down to 12 pages including screenshots.

       I'd love your ideas on how we can chunk up Claudia's work and get a series out of it.

Antonio

       Homo docens - 500+ words, Antonio approved my edits.
       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.

Rodrigo

       Ometepe - It's a beautiful piece with wonderful images. RAH did a very personal and lengthy version (1500+ words) that he shared with his private distribution list. I did an edited version (1200 words) that could be shared publicly. I'd need to check with RAH on this.
       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?

Africa

       We never got approval from Pedro to use Ceri Whatley's piece. Maybe we could use articles written by Julia R. on the Grandmother Africa project.
       Rwanda and 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.

Colombia

       Sandra is producing a newsletter and website that we could extract from. Again, we'd need translation help.

OLPC Australia - It's English so easier. Some good videos.

OLPC Europe - I have no idea what they are doing.

OLPC Oceania

OLPC Jamaica - Good video.

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.

• 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