OLPC:News
LAPTOP NEWS
1. Aloizio Mercadante, the candidate for governor of Sao Paulo from President Lula's party, announced his intention to provide One Laptop per Child in the state, if elected.
2. Ivan Krstić will present our security model and strategy at a security conference in Malaysia to gather feedback from the security community, particularly about our intended use of IPv6 networking on the laptops.
3. After several minor iterations, the OLPC document format is close to stabilized, and the release of a Version 1 is expected shortly. The release will be largely or completely compatible with the upcoming WikiCreole specification, an attempt at a standard subset of wiki markup that wiki systems can support in addition to their native markup.
4. With LinuxBIOS' deployment came reports of problems booting certain A-Test boards. As a result of excellent detective work by Tom Sylla, Jordan Crouse, Ron Minnich, Richard Smith, and Chris Ball, the problem was localized to boards that have a particular vendor's DRAM—three vendor's DRAM are being qualified—that was slower than the DRAM used from the other vendors.
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MILESTONES
| Aug. 2006 | Working prototype of the dual-mode display |
| 06 Jun. 2006 | First video with working prototype [1] |
| 28 Jan. 2006 | World Economic Forum, Switzerland UNDP and OLPC Sign Partnership Agreement news release |
| 13 Dec. 2005 | Quanta Computer Inc. to Manufacture Laptop (html)(pdf) |
| 16 Nov. 2005 | WSIS, Tunisia Prototype Unveiled by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Photos: (Image 1)
(Image 2) (Image 3) |
| Jan. 2005 | Laptop Intiative Officially Announced at World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland |
PRESS
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(Misc. videos of the laptop can be found here.)