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=LAPTOP NEWS=
=LAPTOP NEWS=
1. Shanghai: The first 100 B2 laptops were assembled at the end of the week at Quanta Shanghai. David Woodhouse, Jim Gettys, and Mary Lou Jepsen are in Shanghai with Quanta squashing the bugs. Mitch Bradley, Richard Smith, Chris Ball, and Andres Salomon have spun several firmware releases in the past several days and provided invaluable testing data that enable the builds on this tight schedule.
1. The software team has released to manufacturing our firmware
(version Q2B21) and with the exception of some final test, has the
completed the candidate build for the software image for B2 machines
(Build 239). This is the software that will be used in testing with
children in the coming month in the launch countries.


2. The new laptop.org website designed by Pentagram and powered by Nurun was turned live this week. The new website is a welcome upgrade from the one that was originally hobbled together last spring. Many thanks to the teams at Pentagram and Nurun, as well as to Stephen Michaud and Richard Rowe, who wrote much of the copy under a tight deadline. Special thanks to Serge Rosilio of Nurun, who led the effort from soup to nuts.
2. Sydney: Chris Blizzard, Dave Woodhouse, and Jim Gettys attended
linux.conf.au. It is a volunteer-run conference located in a
different city in Australia or New Zeland and organized by different
people every year; it is considered one of the best conferences in the
world in support of free and open source software. There were about
800 international attendees and another 400 locals who came for the
"open day." Chris gave one of the keynotes at the conference: he
talked about Firefox, OLPC, and the relevance of free software outside
of the context of the server room. He gave a separate talk on the OLPC
user interface. Jim gave a talk on the process of building the OLPC
hardware.


3. São Paulo and Porto Alegre: David Cavallo and Roseli de Deus Lopes ran a workshop for teachers in São Paulo at the University of São Paulo (USP) on Tuesday and Wednesday. David and Lea Fagundes ran second workshop in Porto Alegre at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) on Thursday and Friday. José Luiz Aquino, special advisor to President Lula, and OLPC advisor Rodrigo Mesquita attended throughout. Antonio Battro spoke about the OLPC educational concept; Sylvia Gonzales and Miguel Brechner, OLPC coordinators from Uruguay, and Laura Serra and Alejandro Piscitelli, OLPC coordinators from Argentina also presented.
3. Thomas Vander Stichele from Fluendo gave a demo of streaming video
from a laptop to a laptop that did video encoding to yet another
laptop where it was streamed to the Internet at large.


4. Porto Alegre: Walter Bender met with the organizers of fisl8.0, the 8th annual international forum on free and open-source software. OLPC has had a presence at the forum the last two years. We discussed the possibility running sessions for both developers and educators. Since one of the test schools for OLPC in Brazil will be in Porto Alegre, the organizers are considering to showcase the kids using the OLPC machines.
4. Kernel: The wireless driver has gone through two rounds of reviews
with the upstream kernel networking folks and work continues to get it
into the Linux mainline kernel. Marcelo Tosatti also reports that we
are down to 5–6 interrupts per second (minus a really bad i8042
driver). This is compared with a ~200 per second in a standard Linux
desktop. This will have a huge positive effect on our battery life.


5. Last-minute B2 mods: This week was dominated by final issues running up to the Beta-2 build of machines. There were a few last-minute surprises, but the team worked through them. These included:
5. UI: Marco Presenti Gritti made numerous small changes to the UI to
try to improve some of the experience. Dan Williams, Erik Blankinship,
Bakhtiar Mikhak, and Eben Eliason worked on the camera activity. Dan
also spent time pulling together some multimedia extension (MMX)
optimizations for our platform that should help with Cairo and X
performance.


Microphone problems. A new firmware update fixed problems with the microphone that were discovered with the Beta-2 build. The firmware was not properly detecting the B-2 board and hence was not setting a mode correctly on the cs5536.
6. Firmware: Mitch Bradley reports that the firmware for the B2 build
is released and seems to be stable. Several new firmware features are
working, to be deployed after the B2 build: SD driver for booting from
SD; audio driver for startup sound; fixed a longstanding bug that was
causing some USB keys (that violate the USB2 spec in a minor way) not
to work; a graphical touchpad diagnostic that illustrates the detailed
behavior of the "jumping cursor" issue; and Open Firmware can now do
the wireless-chip firmware uploading/rewriting process (thanks to
Lilian Walter).


Power and charging problems. There are still a number of battery-charging problems related to code in the embedded controller (EC). A new release of the EC code fixed a number of the issues.
7. Community: As we go into B2, we would like to take this opportunity
to acknowledge the much larger community of people and projects, that
have made it possible. It is easy to lose sight of them in the
day-to-day engineering we do.


6. Wireless: Dan Williams attended a wireless summit in London. Lots of people from the wireless world and Linux were in attendance. Intel, Broadcom and CSR were represented, as well as Cozybit, who was represented by Javier Cardona. (Javier and his colleagues have done a lot of work for Marvell and OLPC.) Red Hat sent Dan and John Linville, who is the upstream wireless maintained for the kernel. They discussed specific issues about the code in the kernel, including how to share more code and interfaces in the drivers. In the past, the drivers have all had their own interfaces and work has been underway for quite a while to unify them so that user space utilities will work better.
Firmware: Ron Minnich (LANL) and the LinuxBIOS team, Sun Microsystems
for freeing up Open FirmWare, Richard Smith (OLPC), Mitch Bradley
(OLPC). Tom Sylla has been invaluable with his in-depth knowledge of
the AMD Geode.


7. Sugar UI: Marco Gritti has been working hard to update Sugar to support newer versions of some of our libraries. He has moved most of the Sugar interface to support Python 2.5 (including support for building Python 2.5 as part of our build process) and Gecko 1.9. Python 2.5 is important for performance and startup issues and gives more longevity to our platform. Gecko 1.9 is the underlying engine that will be used in Firefox 3 and will be important because it will give us more control over font sizes and image zooming. Our 200DPI display needs a more flexible rendering system from the browser, something they are building into Gecko 1.9.
Audio drivers: Jaya Kumar has, behind the scenes done a superb job
with the AD1888 driver and 5536 ALSA support, and has added support
for analog input to the driver and the controls to support them, which
is dear to the heart of Seymour Papert. He did so in such a quiet,
timely way that it has been easy to overlook his contributions. The
Alsa project in Linux provides the driver framework we use.


8. Ricardo Medina and Walter Bender got Sugar opening its windows on a remote display—mostly. While still buggy, this feature will be especially useful for debugging—e.g., opening the Memphis window on another laptop—and projecting from a laptop by mapping to the display to a conventional machine. More work is needed to smoothly integrate this into Sugar, but it is a proof of principle nonetheless.
Camera driver: Jon Corbet, well known in the open source community as
the editor of LWN, wrote the camera driver under contract to OLPC: but
the frame work into which it fits is the Video-4-Linux project.


LED driver: Reynaldo Verdejo wrote our keyboard LED driver (which he
wrote without having access to a laptop!).

SD driver: Pierre Ossman is the maintainer of the Linux SD driver and
is an invaluable aide in ensuring proper correct support of SD for
OLPC. Richard Smith (OLPC) has been debugging the driver and hardware.

NAND Flash driver: Dave Woodhouse of Red Hat's OLPC team implemented
our NAND Flash driver and is the original author of the JFFS2 file
system, but we'd also like to thank the many people who have
contributed to that project over its life.

Power management: Matthew Garret, a PHD student in BioInformatics at
Cambridge University has been helping with power management, posting
an initial patch for suspend/resume for OLPC and much advice. He is
one of Linux's experts at suspend/resume.

Linux kernel: Our kernel, of course, is maintained by a community of
over a thousand people from all over the world, too innumerable to
name; our immediate thanks to Andy Tannenbaum, who with Minix inspired
Linus Torvalds to start Linux. The response of this community to OLPC
is overwhelming and our thanks to everyone who in their own way has
done their bit to help us. Dave Jones (Red Hat) is doing great work
finding performance problems in Linux applications and raising
community awareness.

X Window System: The X.org community maintains the window system on
OLPC. The template for rotation support in our driver that Jordan
Crouse implemented for this release comes from work of Eric Anholt and
Keith Packard of Intel, whom we would like to thank for the great work
that they are doing to improve the base driver infrastructure. Daniel
Stone of Nokia has been working on the new input system for X
(Zephaniah Hull has contributed to this work.) Open Hand's Matchbox
window manager has been the platform upon which we have been
developing our UI.

Cairo graphics: The Cairo Graphics library community started by Carl
Worth and Keith Packard has been rapidly improving its performance,
which forms the basis of the increasingly high quality of graphics on
our system.

GTK+ and Pango libraries: These form the GUI toolkit and
internationalization foundation, Behdad Esfahbod (Red Hat) has helped
greatly in our internationalization support as well as performance of
Pango and Cairo.

Python: The Python community lead by Guido Van Rossum provides the
language we use in Sugar, our user interface. They have already
started performance work that should appear immediately in our builds
after the B2 build.

Sugar: Red Hat's Marco Presenti Gritti has been the lead designer and
implementor of Sugar, our UI. Pentagram's Lisa Strausfeld, Christian
Marc Schmidt, and Takaaki Okada and OLPC's Eben Eliason and Walter
Bender have worked on the user interface and graphics design, the
"look and feel" of our system.

Camera: A new camera application written by Erik Blankinship and
Bakhtiar Mikhak of Media Mods replaces our quick and dirty video demo
on the B1 build. Eben Eliason, Dan Williams, and John Palmieri all
contributed to this effort.

Abiword: A new version of Abiword is in this release, which should be
able to handle complex writing scripts much better; this will also
form the input applet for our journal application, when it is ready.

xBook: Manusheel Gupta, Tomeu Vizoso, and Marco Gritti tuned up the
PDF viewer for the new build.

Etoys: The Squeak Etoys development is now so well integrated with
OLPC release engineering that it "just happens"; there are numerous
improvements, too many to note here.

Web Browser: Our web browser is based on the Gecko rendering engine of
the Firefox project. Our display, being significantly higher
resolution than conventional displays is presenting difficulties; but
the the Firefox community is hard at work on a new version which will
improve this situation at some point in the future. A new reflow
engine should also greatly improve performance in a future version of
our system.

Bug reporting: Often overlooked is the work that people do to record
bugs so that we can fix them. More and more are from users of our
systems, rather than those directly developing the software.

Network testing: James Cameron has been an immense aid at early
testing of the OLPC system in radio quiet areas (he lives in the
Australian outback). Two of our machines have been able to talk to
each other over 1.3km apart.

Infrastructure: It is easy to overlook the importance of
infrastructure work that people do. Reynaldo Verdejo's work is
essential to the tinderbox we use for performance. The Mozilla
organization originally developed the first tinderboxes for automated
build and performance regression testing.

Performance: Other often unsung heroes include those who work on
performance, only some of which has started to land in our builds.
Johan Dahlin wrote (http://blogs.gnome.org/view/johan/2007/01/18/0) a
Python-launcher prototype this week that cuts a full second of "import
GTK." This translates into at least one second off every activity
startup. Chris Ball also worked with Tomeu Vizoso, Adam Jackson (Red
Hat), and Dan Williams (Red Hat) on the activity launch notification
speedup. They have done numerous sysprof traces and benchmarking, and
found the right combination of MMX functions to use; our X performance
is much higher now as a result.

Release Engineering: At the inevitable danger of overlooking someone
(our apologies), we would like to to thank those directly contributing
to the release engineering of this software, including Chris Ball,
Walter Bender, Chris Blizzard (Red Hat), Mitch Bradley, Javier Cardona
(Cozybit), Ronak Chokshi (Marvell), Jordan Crouse (AMD), Eben Eliason,
Jim Gettys, Marco Presenti Gritti (Red Hat), Zephaniah Hull, Adam
Jackson (Red Hat), Vance Ke (Quanta), Ivan Krstić, Ted Juan (Quanta),
Aswath Mohan (Marvell), John Palmieri (Red Hat), Andres Salomon,
Richard Smith, Marcelo Tosatti (Red Hat), Lilian Walter, Bruce Wang


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LAPTOP NEWS

1. Shanghai: The first 100 B2 laptops were assembled at the end of the week at Quanta Shanghai. David Woodhouse, Jim Gettys, and Mary Lou Jepsen are in Shanghai with Quanta squashing the bugs. Mitch Bradley, Richard Smith, Chris Ball, and Andres Salomon have spun several firmware releases in the past several days and provided invaluable testing data that enable the builds on this tight schedule.

2. The new laptop.org website designed by Pentagram and powered by Nurun was turned live this week. The new website is a welcome upgrade from the one that was originally hobbled together last spring. Many thanks to the teams at Pentagram and Nurun, as well as to Stephen Michaud and Richard Rowe, who wrote much of the copy under a tight deadline. Special thanks to Serge Rosilio of Nurun, who led the effort from soup to nuts.

3. São Paulo and Porto Alegre: David Cavallo and Roseli de Deus Lopes ran a workshop for teachers in São Paulo at the University of São Paulo (USP) on Tuesday and Wednesday. David and Lea Fagundes ran second workshop in Porto Alegre at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) on Thursday and Friday. José Luiz Aquino, special advisor to President Lula, and OLPC advisor Rodrigo Mesquita attended throughout. Antonio Battro spoke about the OLPC educational concept; Sylvia Gonzales and Miguel Brechner, OLPC coordinators from Uruguay, and Laura Serra and Alejandro Piscitelli, OLPC coordinators from Argentina also presented.

4. Porto Alegre: Walter Bender met with the organizers of fisl8.0, the 8th annual international forum on free and open-source software. OLPC has had a presence at the forum the last two years. We discussed the possibility running sessions for both developers and educators. Since one of the test schools for OLPC in Brazil will be in Porto Alegre, the organizers are considering to showcase the kids using the OLPC machines.

5. Last-minute B2 mods: This week was dominated by final issues running up to the Beta-2 build of machines. There were a few last-minute surprises, but the team worked through them. These included:

Microphone problems. A new firmware update fixed problems with the microphone that were discovered with the Beta-2 build. The firmware was not properly detecting the B-2 board and hence was not setting a mode correctly on the cs5536.

Power and charging problems. There are still a number of battery-charging problems related to code in the embedded controller (EC). A new release of the EC code fixed a number of the issues.

6. Wireless: Dan Williams attended a wireless summit in London. Lots of people from the wireless world and Linux were in attendance. Intel, Broadcom and CSR were represented, as well as Cozybit, who was represented by Javier Cardona. (Javier and his colleagues have done a lot of work for Marvell and OLPC.) Red Hat sent Dan and John Linville, who is the upstream wireless maintained for the kernel. They discussed specific issues about the code in the kernel, including how to share more code and interfaces in the drivers. In the past, the drivers have all had their own interfaces and work has been underway for quite a while to unify them so that user space utilities will work better.

7. Sugar UI: Marco Gritti has been working hard to update Sugar to support newer versions of some of our libraries. He has moved most of the Sugar interface to support Python 2.5 (including support for building Python 2.5 as part of our build process) and Gecko 1.9. Python 2.5 is important for performance and startup issues and gives more longevity to our platform. Gecko 1.9 is the underlying engine that will be used in Firefox 3 and will be important because it will give us more control over font sizes and image zooming. Our 200DPI display needs a more flexible rendering system from the browser, something they are building into Gecko 1.9.

8. Ricardo Medina and Walter Bender got Sugar opening its windows on a remote display—mostly. While still buggy, this feature will be especially useful for debugging—e.g., opening the Memphis window on another laptop—and projecting from a laptop by mapping to the display to a conventional machine. More work is needed to smoothly integrate this into Sugar, but it is a proof of principle nonetheless.


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MILESTONES

Jan. 2007 Rwanda announced its participation in the project.
Dec. 2006 Uruguay announced its participation in the project.
Nov. 2006 First B1 machines are built; IDB and OLPC formalize an agreement regarding Latin American and Caribbean education.
Oct. 2006 B-test boards become available; Libya announces plans for one laptop for every child
Sep. 2006 UI designs presented; integrated software build released; SES-Astra joins OLPC
Aug. 2006 Working prototype of the dual-mode display
Jun. 2006 500 developer boards are shipped worldwide; WiFi operational; Csound demonstrated over the mesh network
First video with working prototype [1]
May 2006 eBay joins OLPC; display specs set; A-test boards become available; $100 Server is announced
Apr. 2006 Pre-A test board boots; Squid and FreePlay present first human-power systems
Mar. 2006 Yves Behar and FuseProject are selected as industry designers
Feb. 2006 Marvell joins OLPC and continues to partner on network hardware
Jan. 2006 World Economic Forum, Switzerland
UNDP and OLPC Sign Partnership Agreement
news release
Dec. 2005 Quanta Computer Inc. to Manufacture Laptop
(html)(pdf)
Nov. 2005 WSIS, Tunisia
Prototype Unveiled by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan; Nortel joins OLPC

Photos: (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)
Webcast: (Arabic) (English) (French) (original)
Webcast provided by the ITU and UN Webcast Services with the support of RealNetworks Ltd. RealPlayer is required to view the webcast (available at no cost).

Aug. 2005 Design Continuum starts design of first laptop
Jul. 2005 Formal signing of original members of OLPC
Mar. 2005 Brightstar and Red Hat come on board
Jan. 2005 Laptop initiative officially announced at World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland; AMD, News Corp. and Google agree to join OLPC

PRESS

3 Jan. 2007 networkworld.com| OLPC Aims for Mass Production in Third Quarter
3 Jan. 2007 IDG.net| One Laptop per Child Sweetens Hardware with 'Sugar' UI
3 Jan. 2007 YAHOO! Finance| OLPC Announces First-of-Its Kind User Interface for XO Laptop Computer
2 Jan. 2007 Bicyclemark's Communique (podcast)| One Laptop Per Child (@23C3)
22 Dec. 2006 Financial Times | Clever Kit to Benefit Developing Countries
27 Nov. 2006 Pagina/12| La manera más económica para mejorar la educación
21 Nov. 2006 Official Release|First 1,000 XO-Laptops Roll off the Assembly Line in Shanghai
19 Nov. 2006 Jamaica Gleaner| Technology - a tool for transformation
19 Nov. 2006 International Herald Tribune| One Laptop per Child: Computer designed for those who can least afford them
Nov./Dec. 2006 Technology Review| Will This Save the World? The $100 Laptop Part III
Nov./Dec. 2006 Technology Review| Will This Save the World? The $100 Laptop Part II
Nov./Dec. 2006 Technology Review| Will This Save the World? The $100 Laptop Part I
8 Nov. 2006 Popular Science| Best of What's New 2006: One Laptop per Child XO- Better Screen, Better World
6 Nov. 2006 ZDNet.co.uk | Why Every Child Deserves a Laptop- Matthew Szulik, CEO, Red Hat
27 Oct. 2006 LinuxWorld | Children's Laptop Inspires Open Source Projects
24 Oct. 2006 LA Times | Upward Mobility in a Laptop
24 Oct. 2006 Fortune | This PC wants to save the world
12 Oct. 2006 Bostonist | One Laptop per Child for Libya
11 Oct. 2006 New York Times | U.S. Group Reaches Deal to Provide Laptops to All Libyan Schoolchildren
3 Oct. 2006 GulfNews.com | College gets look at $100 Children's Laptop Computer
25 Sep. 2006 vnunet.com | OLPC offered free satellite connections
14 Sep. 2006 Vanguard | Keyboard In Three Nigerian Languages Ready-Obasanjo
08 Sep. 2006 Technology Review | Hack: The Hundred Dollar Laptop
06 Sep. 2006 nacion.com | Computadoras de $100 estarán listas en el 2007
 Aug. 2006 Wired | The Laptop Crusade
28 Aug. 2006 PCINpact.com | L'OLPC a 100 $ est finalise: un engin hors du commun
21 Aug. 2006 EWeek.com | Knocking Down Barriers to the $100 Laptop
31 Jul. 2006 NPR | Affordable Laptop Computer Project Moves Forward
07 Jul. 2006 San Diego Union-Tribune | U.S. and international educators show great interest in prototype
Jul. 2006 SPIE Professional | $100 laptop nears launch
21 Jun. 2006 BusinessWeek online | For Brazil's Poor, a Digital Deliverance?
24 May 2006 CNET News.com | $100 laptop gets working prototype
07 Apr. 2006 rediff.com | Our $100 laptops will run on human power
02 Apr. 2006 O Estado de S.Paulo | Fazer a diferença
28 Mar. 2006 FT.com | Waking up to a laptop revolution
24 Mar. 2006 Diário do Comércio | Um Laptop por Crianca
22 Mar. 2006 Times Online | Getting the world's poor logged on
09 Mar. 2006 Correio Popular | País disputa fabricação de laptop de US$ 100
  Folha de S. Paulo | Governo quer comprar 1 milhão de laptops
  Info Exame On Line | Governo quer um milhão de laptops de US$ 100
08 Mar. 2006 IDG Now | Faculdade abre programa de inclusão digital para alunos
  Folha de S. Paulo | Governo negocia fabricação do laptop de US$ 100 no Brasil
  Agência Globo | Governo estuda possibilidade de produção de computador de US$ 100 no país
  Teletime News | DVB detalha contrapartidas oferecidas ao Brasil
05 Mar. 2006 ACM/CIE | Interview with Nicholas Negroponte on the $100 laptop
16 Feb. 2006 MITIR | Podcast of Walter Bender's MURJ lecture on One Laptop per Child
15 Feb. 2006 CNET | PCs for the poor: Which design will win?
10 Feb. 2006 CNET | Perspective: Will the $100 PC fly?
09 Feb. 2006 NYTimes | A Plug for the Unplugged $100 Laptop Computer for Developing Nations
  UPI | One Laptop Project reaches critical stages
31 Jan. 2006 Slashdot | Microsoft OS Smart Phone for Developing Nations
  USA Today | Gates sees cellphones as way to help Third World
  Macworld | Red Hat officially commits to MIT's $100 laptop
20 Dec. 2005 BusinessWeek online | Quanta faces challenges in making "millions and millions" of $100 laptops.
19 Dec. 2005 Forbes.com | China to decide by March whether to join OneLaptopPerChild project.
14 Dec. 2005 UPI | Nortel to take part in OneLaptopPerChild endeavor.
13 Dec. 2005 Red Herring | Quanta to manufacture laptops; expects deliveries in 2006 4th quarter.
11 Dec. 2005 NYTimes | NY Times: 5th Annual Year in Ideas $100 Laptop
01 Dec. 2005 RFDESIGN | $100 Laptops Feature Novel Peer-to-Peer Wireless Connectivity
30 Nov. 2005 FT.com | Five companies in Asia making bids to manufacture $100 laptop.
28 Nov. 2005 Fortune Magazine | THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: I'd Like to Teach the World to Type
25 Nov. 2005 People's Daily Online | Nigerian president says government has budgeted for a million $100 laptops.
17 Nov. 2005 BBC News | UN Debut for $100 Laptop for Poor
  Seattle Times | $100 Laptops Aim to Bring Children the World
  TechWhack | MIT Unveils their USD 100 Laptop
  ZDNet | '$100 Laptops' Here by Next Year
  ABC | $100 Laptop Bridges Digital Divide
  Financial Express | Laptop @$100!
16 Nov. 2005 MIT News Office | Annan to Present Prototype $100 Laptop at World Summit on Information Society
  CNET | $100 Laptop Takes World Stage
  CNET | $100 Laptop Expected in Late 2006
  Christian Science Monitor | A Low-Cost Laptop for Every Child
14 Nov. 2005 WSJ | The $100 Laptop Moves Closer to Reality
13 Nov. 2005 The Inquirer | Hubris over $100 Laptop idea
New York Times | Google Earmarks $265million for Charity and Social Causes
13 Oct. 2005 Technology Review | The Hundred Dollar Man: Technology Review's editor in chief, Jason Pontin, talk with Nicholas Negroponte about the Hundred Dollar Computer.
29 Sep. 2005 I4U News | Sub-$100 Laptop design unveiled
28 Sep. 2005 Boston Globe | Prototypes of $100 laptop with hand crank planned by early next year.
  MIT World | NN at Technology Review
27 Sep. 2005 Datamation | Low cost PCs for the Enterprise
06 Jun. 2005 estadao.com.br | Cada criança na escola com um laptop a tiracolo

PRESS RELEASES

Jan. 2007 OLPC has No Plans to Commercialize XO Computer.
Jan. 2007 OLPC Announces First-of-Its-Kind User Interface for XO Laptop Computer.
Jan. 2007 Rwanda Commits to One Laptop per Child Initiative.
Dec. 2006 Low Cost Laptop Could Tranform Learning.

Video

(Misc. videos of the laptop can be found.)

http://video.globo.com/Videos/Player/Noticias/0,,GIM607884-7823-CRIANCAS+TESTAM+COMPUTADOR+PORTATIL,00.html | Crianças testam computador portátil/ Students test the laptop, GLOBO- BRASIL

http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/061004-ee380-300.asx | Mark Foster delivers presentation to Standford University

http://www.technologyreview.com/ | Technology Review Mini-Documentary

http://www.radiofarda.com/Article/2007/01/04/f2_Interview-laptop.html | A Brief Demo

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