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Week of June 22

Mongolia

Elana Langer and her team of interns arrived in Ulanbataar on Monday June 16th to join Enky Zurgaanjin and other Mongolian interns. Several immediately began testing and registering computers, while those who speak the local language began assisting in the immense task of translating the interface into Mongolian.

Wonderful partnerships with local organizations such Project Read, the Peace Corps and the local university computer science program were solidified. Each of the organizations has committed two or more people to join our core team for intensive training this summer.

They in turn will build capacity within their organizations to help bring the powerful, effective and enjoyable uses of laptops for learning to children in rural areas. Project Read will soon purchase an additional 2000 computers with grant money from the World Bank.

On Friday there were two official ceremonies at UB schools receiving the laptops. A workshop for 240 teachers is scheduled to begin in the capital on Monday morning.

It is presidential election season in Mongolia and the XO and OLPC figure prominently in the campaign. All candidates support one laptop per child.

Haiti

On Monday the first laptops were distributed to the children of the Republique do Chile school in Port-au-Prince. The children were excited and extremely enthusiastic. They shared activities spontaneously and explored by themselves. They asked many questions of the teachers, of the people from the technical/pedagogical team, and of each other. While waiting for their machines, they formed themselves into an XO.

The spirit among the adults is great. Some of the teachers really “get it,” and we know we can count on them. Bastien Guerry, who has represented OLPC in Haiti, returns to France for a couple of weeks to publish a book. Wanda Eugene will arrive in Haiti at the end of the month, to be joined by Bastien in mid-July.

Nepal: In what its sponsor, the World Food Program, calls the most successful women’s mountaineering expedition in history, a multi-caste team of Nepalese women (Weekend, April 6) carried an XO apiece up to base camp on Mount Everest late last month. At 17,700 feet, this is believed to be a new non-airborne altitude record for the laptop. Before scaling the summit, the women demonstrated their XOs at base camp, where they also formed a mesh network with the machines, which were powered by portable solar arrays.

Press

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HowTo [ID# 141057] +/-

Country Meetings

Community News

For the latest updates from the various teams, subscribe to the mailing list, or check the archived updates here.

Week of June 22

Mongolia

Elana Langer and her team of interns arrived in Ulanbataar on Monday June 16th to join Enky Zurgaanjin and other Mongolian interns. Several immediately began testing and registering computers, while those who speak the local language began assisting in the immense task of translating the interface into Mongolian.

Wonderful partnerships with local organizations such Project Read, the Peace Corps and the local university computer science program were solidified. Each of the organizations has committed two or more people to join our core team for intensive training this summer.

They in turn will build capacity within their organizations to help bring the powerful, effective and enjoyable uses of laptops for learning to children in rural areas. Project Read will soon purchase an additional 2000 computers with grant money from the World Bank.

On Friday there were two official ceremonies at UB schools receiving the laptops. A workshop for 240 teachers is scheduled to begin in the capital on Monday morning.

It is presidential election season in Mongolia and the XO and OLPC figure prominently in the campaign. All candidates support one laptop per child.

Haiti

On Monday the first laptops were distributed to the children of the Republique do Chile school in Port-au-Prince. The children were excited and extremely enthusiastic. They shared activities spontaneously and explored by themselves. They asked many questions of the teachers, of the people from the technical/pedagogical team, and of each other. While waiting for their machines, they formed themselves into an XO.

The spirit among the adults is great. Some of the teachers really “get it,” and we know we can count on them. Bastien Guerry, who has represented OLPC in Haiti, returns to France for a couple of weeks to publish a book. Wanda Eugene will arrive in Haiti at the end of the month, to be joined by Bastien in mid-July.

Nepal: In what its sponsor, the World Food Program, calls the most successful women’s mountaineering expedition in history, a multi-caste team of Nepalese women (Weekend, April 6) carried an XO apiece up to base camp on Mount Everest late last month. At 17,700 feet, this is believed to be a new non-airborne altitude record for the laptop. Before scaling the summit, the women demonstrated their XOs at base camp, where they also formed a mesh network with the machines, which were powered by portable solar arrays.

Press

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Video

Videos of the laptop can be found here, and at olpc.tv.

OLPC.tv is a video-blog aggregating all OLPC related videos. It has an RSS feed. Set up by Charbax.
YouTube has >1000 videos. Search for "OLPC", sorted by rating, or by date .

Video highlights

Business week review of Peru deployment: Business week
A Frappr Map of G1G1 recipients can be found at [1]
A collection of several videos can found at OLPC.TV
IBM Podcast, Walter Bender on One Laptop per Child [2]
Ivan Krstić delivers a technical presentation of OLPC at the Google TechTalk series
60 Minutes, What if Every Child had a Laptop [3]
CNN, Should Intel Fear $100 Laptop? [4]
Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, Episode Four
Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, Episode Three
Red Hat Magazine: Ins/ide One Laptop per Child, Episode Two
Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, Episode One
Portuguese lecture "Perspectivas do uso de laptops pelas crianças (e nas escolas)". Video in Cameraweb Unicamp
OLPC Video from Switzerland, 26.01.2007
Interview with Nicholas Negroponte on the &100 Laptop
Presentation by Jim Gettys at FOSDEM 2007
Mark Foster delivers presentation to Stanford University
Technology Review Mini-Documentary
A Brief Demo, radio farda
BBC films the XO in Nigeria.

Waveplace pilots in Florida, Haiti, St John, Virgin Islands, and Nicaragua.
Playing music on first day(?) with laptop (Thailand). 0:32
Early B2 test classroom (Brazil). 4:45 Beta2 hardware test, early alpha software.
GLOBO- BRASIL: Crianças testam computador portátil/ Students test the laptop

Video history

2007

November 28th

BBC TV and the BBC website visited the Galadima school in Nigeria. they assessed the OLPC project and the rival Intel Classmate project. All the video links are here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7119160.stm

August 23rd: On BBC World's Click, a weekly technology show in English, there is a featured segment on the OLPC project. The video and transcript are available at the BBC World website. Note: In the title, the transcript incorrectly uses the "pound" symbol instead of the correct "dollar" symbol. Overall, this is a pretty fair and descriptive presentation. Hyperlinks to the specific material are unavailable at this time.

August 19th: the German/Swiss/Austrian TV station "3sat" dedicates 12 minutes of a 30-minute show to the OLPC project. Watch the entire show. The show is in German, OLPC coverage starts at 06:00.

April 12th: Google Tech Talks 2007: Ivan Krstic presents the project "one laptop per child". 1 hour.; Emphasis on software infrastructure.; (0 motive; 10 hardware; 22 software; 33 security; 45 status; 51 wrapup; 54 questions; 54 "what happens you give xo's to kids?"; 56 adult/parent issues?; 58 why sell to countries?).

March 23rd: Red Hat Magazine presents the OLPC team: "Inside One Laptop per Child: Episode one" (ogg format).; Flash version here

February 24nd: Jim Gettys at FOSDEM 2007 in Brussels, Belgium, License "Creative Commons: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike", ogg-file. An overview of OLPC motivation, hardware, and software. Emphasis is on the hardware motivation and design.; Flash version here

February 20th: Red Hat Magazine is Up close with the One Laptop per Child XO; Flash version here

January 26nd: Report in the swiss TV ("SF 1") about the project and the XO: Report here (Real Player required)

January 21st: Nicholas Negroponte at the Digital Life Day conference in Munich, in a panel moderated by Martin Varsavsky of Fon Flash version at videos.dld-conference.com (21st January, 5:40PM, How to be Good) Higher quality MP4 file

January 17th: Jim Gettys at the Linux Conference 2007, University of New South Wales (Australia): (lca2007.linux.org.au). Here is the link to the video (ogg). License "Creative Commons: Attribution - ShareAlike"; Flash-version here

January 17th: James Cameron at the Linux Conference 2007 (lca2007.linux.org.au), presenting some WLan range tests done on the $100 laptop. Here is the link to the video (ogg). License "Creative Commons: Attribution - ShareAlike"; Flash-version here

January 11th: Filmed at the CES 2007 in Las Vegas (video-blog.eu), Michail Bletsas talking about the Mesh Wi-Fi, as well as video of the OLPC running Pepper Linux OS, demo of it outdoors, interview with Marvell and demonstration of the Csound music synthetiser software.

January 3rd: Philip Van Hoof showing the demo user interface of tinymail (youtube.com) on the laptop

January 17th: James Cameron at the Linux Conference 2007 [5], presenting some WLan range tests done on the $100 laptop. Here is the link to the video (ogg). License "Creative Commons: Attribution - ShareAlike"; Flash-version here

2006

4th quarter

December 19th: Presentation de la XO dans "les carnets du renard Roux" (fr)

December 2nd: Nicholas Negroponte's keynote at NetEvents.tv (NetEvents.tv)

Nicholas Negroponte, Seymour Papert, and Walter Bender talking about the educational mission of the laptop (techreview.com)

November 29th: Nicholas Negroponte interviewed by Argentinian Dominio Digital TV, showing the XO and talking about it (youtube.com)

November 22nd: Demo of the OLPC User Interface (youtube.com) by harrybro

November 3rd: Nicholas Negroponte speaking at Forrester's Consumer Forum (media.podtech.net) in Chicago (audio only)

October 4th: Mark J. Foster at Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium (stanford.edu)

3rd quarter

September 12th: Walter Bender at Ars Electronica Simplicity (aec.at) (audio only)

August 29th: Chris Blizzard at Red Hat Summit (video.google.com) (starts at 38 minutes and 35 seconds in the video)

August 1st: Nicholas Negroponte keynote on TedTalks 2006: at video here. License "Creative Commons: Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivatives".

July 28th: OLPC booting with linuxbios (youtube.com)

July 25th: Nicholas Negroponte speaks at the Lecture Series of the Americas (oas.org)
Speech in the third video,
Q&A in the fourth video (5m42 into the speech video audio becomes better)

July 13th: NECC 2006, Nicholas Negroponte keynote (not complete), Dan Williams of Red Hat (video.google.com), video by eSchool News

July 6th: NECC 2006, Nicholas Negroponte, David Thornburg, Ian Jukes interviews (uoregon.edu)

2nd quarter

June 6th: Working Prototype (siliconvalleysleuth.com)

May 30th: Michail Bletsas interview (youtube.com)

May 29th: Raoul Weiler presentation (youtube.com)

Raoul Weiler, Rolando Berger of Club of Rome at the Netsquared Conference in the Santa Clara Hilton (youtube.com)

May 23rd: OLPC demo in Boston (video.google.com) (51 seconds)

May 5th: Nicholas Negroponte keynote at WCIT Austin Texas (wcitvideo.com)

1st quarter
January 27th: Nicholas Negroponte audio-interview at the World Economic Forum (forumblog.org)

2005

December 19th: Nicholas Negroponte on Charlie Rose TV show (video.google.com)

November 17th: Mary Lou Jepsen interview at the WSIS in Tunisia (andycarvin.com)

November 16th: Press Conference with Kofi Annan at the WSIS in Tunisia (itu.int) (at the bottom of the page)

September 28th: Nicholas Negroponte at the MIT (mit.edu)

Testimonials about my XO laptop