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<div style="background:gray; color:white;"><b> One Laptop per Child</b></div> |
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The MIT Media Lab has launched a new research initiative to develop a $100 laptop—a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. To achieve this goal, a new, non-profit association, One Laptop per Child (OLPC), has been created, which is independent of MIT. |
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The official project website is located at [http://laptop.org laptop.org]. There is also a comprehensive [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child description of the project] in the Wikipedia. |
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The table of contents for this wiki can be found [[Table of Contents|here]]. |
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Please note that while we are encouraging public contributions to this wiki, pages with a header such as this one are more tightly maintained by the OLPC team itself. While you should feel welcome to make edits to these pages, please use the [[Talk:One Laptop per Child|discussion]] tab for your comments. --[[User:Walter|Walter]] |
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== Laptop gallery == |
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Image:Laptop-crank.jpg |
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Image:blue-front.jpg |
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Image:yellow-ebook.jpg |
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Image:Orange-machine-rotate-small.jpg |
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Image:Proto-a-front.jpg |
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Image:Fedora-boot.jpg |
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Image:Fedora-boot-detail.jpg |
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Image:1st working.jpg |
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== The hardware == |
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The Green Machine prototype, styled by [http://www.dcontinuum.com/ Design Continuum], was unveiled at WSIS, Tunisia by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Nicholas Negroponte. |
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Fuseproject has developed some recent prototypes: the Blue Machine and the Yellow Machine. |
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We have several groups looking at different human-power options, including a hand crank, a foot treadle, and a pully system. Our goal is a minimum of a 1:10 ratio of "cranking" to use, e.g., one minute of cranking give you ten minutes of use. Note that we've determined that built in cranks are less efficient and impractical; human powered systems are best done for ergonomic reasons in separate devices. We'll post details of the generation systems as they become available. In the meantime you can look at [[Freecharge portable charger]] for examples of how people are already doing human-powered generators. |
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The [[hardware specification]] for the first generation machine is pretty much set. There are many aspects in which this design is truly ground breaking and make this the first of a new class of systems, unlike any other "laptop" in the world. |
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== The software == |
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We are committed to the principle of Open Source for this project. Please refer to our manifesto: [[OLPC on open source software]]. |
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Developing software for this machine is very straight forward, though there are [[development issues]] you should be aware of. Our partner in software development is [http://www.redhat.com Red Hat]. |
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We have begun an [[OLPC software task list]]. Please help us refine this list. |
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[[Discussion of Instant Messaging Challenges]] lays a framework for thinking about the different challenges facing the use of instant messaging applications as they exist today on the $100 laptop. Those issues will need to be overcome if instant messaging is to be usable within the environments in which the $100 laptop will be deployed. |
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:Unfortunately, this discussion ignores the fact that IM is already included in the [[Basic OLPC Software Set]]. It is also extremely desktop-centric and ignores other models such as European SMS cellular services. |
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[[Discussion of eBook feature set]] is a page in which traditional and nontraditional features are discussed both in abstract and in relation to the different eBook readers out there. |
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[[Wiki as an ebook reader]] is where we discuss the suitability of wiki as an ebook distribution medium, and why it would help solve some of the other challenges that the $100 laptop is trying to address. |
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== Educational content == |
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OLPC is based on [[constructionist]] theories of learning pioneered by [[Seymour Papert]] and later [[Alan Kay]], as well as the principles expressed in Nicholas Negroponte's book 'Being Digital'. Some background on our approach can be gleaned from David Cavallo's essay, [http://www.media.mit.edu/publications/bttj/Paper11Pages96-112.pdf "Models for growth—towards fundamental change in learning environments"] |
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== Launch plans == |
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The laptops will be sold to governments and issued to children by schools on a basis of "one laptop per child." Initial discussions have been held with China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, Nigeria, and Thailand. In addition, a modest allocation of machines will be used to seed developer communities in a number of other countries. A commercial version of the machine will be explored in parallel. |
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There are a series of pages in this wiki dedicated to [[OLPC Thailand]], [[OLPC Brasil]], [[OLPC Argentina]], [[OLPC Egypt]], [[OLPC Greece]], [[OLPC Nigeria]], [[OLPC India]], and [[OLPC China]]. Other pages will follow. |
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Pictures from the [[Country Task Force Meeting]] |
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== Getting involved == |
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There is a page in this wiki dedicated to [[Getting involved in OLPC]], an [[OLPC Idea Pool]] page, an IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #OLPC), [http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo mailing lists] for generic OLPC discussions not specific to any Linux distribution, and a [[Jobs at OLPC]] page. |
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There is a [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC Fedora Project] for OLPC, where you can [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC/SourceRepository get the Fedora software for the OLPC hardware] and [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC/Mailing_Lists join Fedora OLPC related mailing lists]. |
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We have had significant quantities of prototype electronics built for people who need early access to the hardware for device driver, power management, wireless, distribution and UI work. The beginnings of [[notes on using the OLPC developer boards]] contain information that may be useful to those working on this early hardware. Please get involved in the [[Developers Program]] if you have the time, energy and ability to help. |
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Also, we are doing a [[OLPC Google Summer of Code]]. |
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== FAQ == |
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The official [http://laptop.org/faq.html FAQ] is on the project website, but please feel free to pose additional questions here: [[OLPC FAQ]]. There is also a collection of [[OLPC myths]] that has been accumulating. |
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Revision as of 12:00, 6 June 2006
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