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LAPTOP NEWS

1. Many put in Herculean efforts and as scheduled the first build of X0 was begun on Tuesday afternoon November 14th. About 35 operators assembled the laptops with the over-site of the entire technical team from Quanta and Mark Foster and Mary Lou Jepsen from OLPC and David Woodhouse from Red Hat on hand. The first laptop was started with its motherboard, and ran most of the way through the line alone —with every operator idle except for the one, each operator successively doing his or her job. After Laptop #1 had made it through about 20 operators, Laptop #2 was started. 221 laptops were built on Tuesday and an additional 600 units on Thursday; many are still in run-in and final test.

2. As part of the follow up of last week's meeting, the IADB and OLPC issued a press release regarding strategic areas of common interest: (a) regional and national policy dialog regarding adopting a new approach to the use of computers in education; (b) technical assistance; (c) design and support for evaluation activities; (d) content development tailor-made to the 1-to-1 learning environment; (e) design of effective strategies to integrate individual computer devices in the daily lives of children, both at home and in school; and (f) design of effective approaches to supporting schools and teachers implementing 1-to-1 computing programs.

2. New York: Nicholas delivered a presentation at the closing session of the United Nations' International Forum on the Eradication of Poverty on Thursday. The session included Prof. Iqbal Quadir, Founder of Grameen phone and currently the Director, Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship at MIT.

3. Santa Clara: Walter Bender gave a talk at the Silicon Valley Challenge Summit and demonstrated the laptop to the public—its first public showing.

4. Cambridge: OLPC held an all-hands meeting to review B1 status and organize our selves for the next phase of development, initial testing, and deployment. All aspects of the system were given a thorough review and critique.

5. The arrival of the machines has accelerated the software. We can finally see the fonts, test the keyboard, and feel the performance. We've already fixed a number of small bugs this week and will be able to make an update BIOS and OS image release for people to use on the B1 machines.

In short: we shipped a BIOS, a bootloader, embedded-controller code, a working Linux system with support for all devices, a new user-interface environment, along with a web browser, music programs, network manager, chat program, and word processor.

In thanking all of those who have contributed to this effort, we undoubted missed someone; our apologies for those whom we fail to mention below.

The BIOS, EC code, and bootloader were brought to you by Mitch Bradley, Ted Juan, Vance Ke, Arvin Liu, Ron Minnich, Richard Smith, Lilian Walter, Tom Sylla, Terry Su, Ray Tseng, and the LinuxBIOS team.

The base system was brought to you by the team of Chris Ball, Michail Bletsas, Chris Blizzard, Javier Cardona, Brian Cavagnolo, Ronak Chokshi, John Corbett, Alan Cunningham, Jordan Crouse, Marco Gritti, Jim Gettys, Zephaniah Hull, Ivan Krstić, Adam Jackson, Jaya Kumar, Pierre Ossman, John Palmieri, Luis Carlos Cobo Rus, Andres Salomon, Marcelo Tosatti, Dan Williams, Dave Woodhouse, David Zeuthen and the Linux and free and open software community as a whole.

The window system and user interface toolkit brought to you by Jordan Crouse, Zephaniah Hull, Adam Jackson, Jim Gettys, the X Window System, GTK+, Gstreamer, and Cairo communities, along with Manu Cornet, and Matthew Allum.

Abiword for kids brought to you by Erik Blankinship, Justin Gallardo, J.M. Maurer, Martin Sevior and the Abiword community.

CSound brought to you by Barry Vercoe, Rick Boulanger, Simon Schampijer, and the CSound community.

EToys brought to you on OLPC by Bert Freudenberg, Alan Kay, Yoshiki Ohshima, Andreas Raab, Kim Rose, and the entire EToys and Squeak community. Our thanks to Steve Jobs for relicensing Squeak.

PenguinTV brought to you by Owen Williams and the Gecko rendering engine of Mozilla.

Sugar brought to you by Walter Bender, Chris Blizzard, Eben Eliason, Marco Pesenti Gritti, and Lisa Strausfeld, Christian Schmidt, and the team from Pentagram.

Sugar's web browser is based on the Gecko rendering engine of the Mozilla foundation.

TamTam and Memosono brought to you by Douglas Ec, Nathanaël Lécaudé, Bélanger Olivier, and Jean Piché.

Xbook broght to you by Tomeu Vizoso, Manusheel Gupta, and the Popplar team.

Orchestration by Walter Bender, Jim Gettys, and Chris Blizzard.

Laptop News is archived at Laptop News.

You can subscribe to the OLPC community-news mailing list by visiting the laptop.org mailman site.

Press requests: please send email to press@laptop.org

MILESTONES

10 Nov. 2006 First B1 boards are built
Oct. 2006 B-test boards become available
Aug. 2006 Working prototype of the dual-mode display
06 Jun. 2006 First video with working prototype [1]
May 2006 A-test boards become available
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)
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).

Jan. 2005 Laptop intiative officially announced at World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland

PRESS

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

Video

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


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