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Mission Statement: [http://www.laptop.org One Laptop per Child] creates educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost,
low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for
collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.
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[[One Laptop per Child]] association is developing a low-cost laptop&mdash;[[XO: The Children's Machine|the "XO Laptop"]]&mdash;to revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Our goal is to provide children around the world with new [[Learning Vision|opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves]].

Why do children in developing nations need laptops? Laptops are a window and a tool: a window into the world and a tool with which to think. They are a wonderful way for all children to learn learning through independent interaction and exploration.<br clear="all"/>

== What's new ==
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[[Old News|Current events archive]]
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{{Latest Releases | firmware = inline | devel = inline | rc = inline | livecd = inline |extra = inline }}

* [[Support#Give_One_Get_One_Update|Give One Get One Update]]
* Attendees and presenters from 20 countries attend the [[Country workshops/May 2008|May country workshop]].
* Are you an OLPC contributor? Add yourself to the [[Profiles]] page!

'''Deployments'''
*[[ OLPC Pakistan | What OLPC Pakistan is doing]]
* Waveplace starts pilot in Immokalee, Florida ([http://waveplace.com/mu/waveplace/item/tp142 photos], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91891812 NPR story on pilot])

* [http://www.olenepal.org/images/olpc-model-in-nepal.pdf Academic Commentary] authored by OLE Nepal Education Director, titled "Tackling the Problems of Quality and Disparity in Nepal’s School Education: The OLPC Model."
* [http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/272 OLE Nepal formally launches] OLPC project in Nepal at [[Bishwamitra_Journal|Bishwamitra]] and [[Bashuki_Journal|Bashuki]] schools. View the Flickr Photostream [http://www.flickr.com/photos/80049722@N00/sets/72157604771101410/ here]
* Waveplace completes Virgin Islands pilot ([http://waveplace.com/locations/usvi/movie.jsp?id=45 scenes from pilot], [http://waveplace.com/locations/usvi/movie.jsp?id=44 student presentations])
* [http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/193 Teacher Training] begins for [[Bashuki_Journal|Bashuki]] and [[Bishwamitra_Journal|Bishwamitra]] pilots
* [http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/22041/ Laptop Training Begins in Peru]
* Waveplace starts pilot in [http://waveplace.com/locations/haiti/movie.jsp?id=34 Port-Au-Prince, Haiti] (video)

* The [[Deployment Guide]] is now posted to the wiki. Please help us improve it.
* Read about Nepal's upcoming deployments in [[Bashuki Journal]] and [[Bishwamitra Journal]]
* [http://radian.org/notebook/astounded-in-arahuay '''Astounded in Arahuay'''] &mdash; Ivan Krstić on a followup visit to the site of Peru's 8-month OLPC pilot.
* The Inter-American Development Bank announced that it will finance a pilot project to test whether one-to-one computing can improve teaching and learning in schools in Haiti (the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere). The IDB will make a $3-million grant for the pilot project, which will distribute XO laptops to 13,200 students and 500 teachers in 60 Haitian primary schools. The OLPC Foundation will contribute XO laptops to the project through the Give One Get One program.
* Read about OLPC in NYC on the [http://olpcnyc.wordpress.com/ Teaching Matters] blog.
* [[Ulaanbaatar|Our Mongolia project]] is the first deployment made possible by the generosity of the [[Give One Get One]] participants. Many thanks from OLPC and the Mongolian children to those who contributed through the program.
* [http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2008/01/group_from_city_sees_ease_of_r.html '''So easy a child could do it'''] &mdash; [http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2007/11/students_will_get_laptops_with.html Birmingham] City School personnel attend OLPC workshop to learn about the XO
* IHT ran an AP [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/24/technology/LA-TEC-Peru-One-Laptop-One-Village.php?page=2 article] on how the XO laptop and OLPC are transforming a remote [[OLPC Peru|Peruvian]] village.
* From 2007: [http://radian.org/notebook/first-deployment Uruguay starts mass-production deployment of OLPC] Next stop: [[OLPC Peru|Peru]].

'''[http://dev.laptop.org Developments]'''
* [[XO-2]] laptop designs revealed May 2008
* More [[Marvin_Minsky_essays|essays on learning]] by Marvin Minsky
* [[Conventions]] now contains two [[Conventions#Active Proposals:|active proposals]] for changing large numbers of wiki articles.
* OLPC hosted a [[Apr 3-4 Mini-conference|mini-conference]] April 3 and 4 on the state of the OLPC platform.
* At long last, we have a new [http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/candidate/703/jffs2/ Update.1 Release Candidate], signed and waiting for your attention; you may want to copy over your activities or learn about installing activity packs before upgrading (see [[Testing Update.1]] and [[G1G1 Activity Pack]] or you can use [[Bert's script]]). Release notes continue to develop at '''[[OLPC Update.1 Software Release Notes]]''' with more technical commentary being stored at [[OLPC SW-ECO 4]].
* An XO laptop [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1QKTKAAug4 video] by Tom Boonsiri and Jake Feala worth watching
* Read Marvin Minsky's first OLPC memo on learning: [[Marvin_Minsky#What_makes_Mathematics_hard_to_learn.3F|What makes mathematics hard to learn?]]
* Dan Bricklin has been working on [http://www.peapodcast.com/sgi/olpc/ '''SocialCalc'''] for the XO Laptop.
* Hilaire Fernandes has improved the usability of [[DrGeo|'''DrGeoII''']] in a new [ftp://ftp.ofset.org/squeak/drgeo/DrGeoII.xo XO bundle].
* John Maloney has posted a preliminary version of [[Scratch]], a highly engaging language that allows young students to create simple programs and games, on the [[Activities]] page. Enjoy!
* Ivan Krstić explains '''[http://radian.org/notebook/paradox-of-choice what OLPC is doing] with the Microsoft Windows XP team.''' <!-- needs internal link -->
* Chumby's [http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=218 Bunnie] "tears down" an XO laptop... worth the read. To try this at home, see our [[disassembly|disassembly notes]] and [[manual/Insides|photos]].
* Mary Lou Jepsen has posted [[Hardware Testing|safety and inspection certificates]].

'''[[Press|In the news]]'''
* Listen to the [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91891812 two-part NPR story] on Waveplace's XO pilot in Immokalee, Florida
* Read [http://w.xconomy.com/2008/02/01/the-xo-laptop-its-the-software-stupid/ Xconomy's review] of the XO laptop's software.
* The "[[Lancor|Preliminary Objection]]" regarding the Nigerian Keyboard claim.
* OLPC's [[Clunky_laptop|response]] to the recent ''Economist'' article about the project.
* [http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080107182525297 Groklaw interviews] former OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen
* OLPC's statement on [[Intel#INTEL RESIGNS FROM OLPC|Intel's resignation]] from the OLPC board and association.

== Get Involved ==
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OLPC is driven and supported by its community of thousands of [[Participate|participants]], [[developers|creators]], and [[Educators|educators]]. See some of the faces behind OLPC on our [[profiles]] page.

If you have and interesting idea or project, or want to start a local OLPC group, you can request an XO through our [[developers program|contributors and developers program]]. You can also '''[[Emulation|emulate our Sugar environment]]''' on your PC.

While most of the opportunities to get involved are through our [[participate|volunteer community]], there are also a few specific [http://laptop.org/en/jobs.shtml current job openings].

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Image:P1020317-1.JPG Give One Get One XOs arrive in [[Ulaanbaatar]], [[OLPC Mongolia|Mongolia]]
Image:Mongolia-Day-One.jpg The first laptops arriving in [[OLPC Mongolia|Mongolia]]
Image:Uruguay.jpg [http://radian.org/notebook/first-deployment The real deal in Uruguay]
Image:StartOfMP.jpg Start of mass production at [[Quanta]]
Image:007_Arahuay_2nd_Photo.JPG [[Educators|Pilot]] in [[OLPC Peru/Arahuay|Arahuay, Perú]]
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== Learn more ==
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'''[http://laptop.org/start Getting Started Guide]''' &nbsp;&nbsp; &middot; &nbsp;&nbsp;
'''[http://en.forum.laptop.org/ Community Forum]''' &nbsp;&nbsp; &middot; &nbsp;&nbsp;
'''[[Ask_olpc_a_question|Ask a Question]]'''
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You can read more and discuss new ideas about [[Hardware specification|hardware]], [[software_components|software]], [[educators|education]] and [[content|content]];
The XO's interface, [[Sugar]], has its own [[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines|human interface guidelines]]. There are also discussion pages on issues of deployment and [[Countries|country-specific]] discussions. <!--- An extended '''[[Table of Contents|table of contents]]''' is also available. not currently updated --->

:Our five '''[[core principles]]'''&mdash;
:''' [[core principles#Child Ownership|Child Ownership]]''': ''I wear my XO like my pair of shoes.''
:'''[[core principles#Low Ages|Low Ages]]''': ''I have good XO shoes for a long walk.''
: '''[[core principles#Saturation|Saturation]]''': ''A healthy education is a vaccination, it reaches everybody and protects from ignorance and intolerance.''
: '''[[core principles#Connection|Connection]]''': ''When we talk together we stay together.''
: '''[[core principles#Free and Open Source|Free and Open Source]]''': ''Give me a free and open environment and I will learn and teach with joy.''

==About this wiki==

This wiki is a tool for the community, to share information about their work and projects, to exchange ideas and get feedback from passers-by, and to provide shared space for people working on many aspects of education to discuss how to improve education and build informed communities through better collaboration and connection.

Related essays and projects are welcome here, from technical to epistemological.
Every page invites comments; you can discuss pages via the '''discussion''' tab found at the top of each page. If you are new to wikis, see [[Wiki getting started]] for a tutorial. For good wiki style, and guidelines for editing, see [[OLPC:Wiki]]. Please [[Special:Userlogin|make an account]] and join us.

Pages with the green <nowiki>{{OLPC}}</nowiki> banner at the top—such as this one—are monitored by the OLPC team and representative of the current state of the project; other pages may be slightly less up-to-date. You are welcome to edit and add information to OLPC-monitored pages.

==Machine Translations==
Please use these links with the following caution. Machine translations should be considered '''much''' less accurate than the human translated version of wiki pages. Sometimes they are wildly or even comically inaccurate. However, the ''GoogleTrans-xx'' templates for translating wiki pages into other languages offer the advantage of instantly providing at least '''some''' translation (however poor the grammar may be) of the '''most current version''' of '''every''' page on the wiki. Similar templates are being developed and applied to assist English speakers in browsing the pages created by on-wiki communities writing in other languages (e.g. Spanish, Korean, etc.).

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