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Welcome to the OLPC Wiki, a collaborative site about the One Laptop per Child project and related communities. We currently have 9,909 pages; please join us and share your ideas. For a project overview, see also www.laptop.org.

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The real deal in Uruguay

Start of Mass Production at Quanta

Pilot in Arahuay, Perú

Weekly updates: Current events   ·   Archives: Old News.

• The Give One Get One program ended on 31 December 2007 at midnight EST. Thanks to all who participated!

• The New York Times has a wonderful AP article on how the XO laptop and OLPC are transforming a remote Peruvian village.

• Mary Lou Jepsen has begun posting our many safety and inspection certificates on the Hardware Testing page.

• We've only just begun. Uruguay has started the first mass-production deployment of OLPC! (See Ivan Krstić's blog for more details.) Next stop: Peru.

Notes on G1G1 shipment

New Year's Resolution There continues to be some confusion and concern about the status of Give One Get One shipments. Please note that no orders have been lost (Day One or otherwise). There are several different reasons why people who have ordered on Day One may not have received their laptop yet, among them:

1. As previously pointed out, Canadian donors will not receive their laptops until early in 2008;
2. We received some orders to PO Boxes without phone numbers; we are unable to ship to a PO box, so we are working on a plan to follow up with those donors;
3. There has been an address-verification failure for some orders; we are working on a plan to follow up with those donors.

We will continue to make every effort to get laptops to you as quickly as possible; thank you for patience.

Oh Canada... We at OLPC are very sorry about the Canadian shipment situation: we underestimated the time it would take us to fully work out the import duties and taxes and we were not clear in our communication to you. We apologize for everyone with a child who will not receive a laptop this year. You can visit the laptopgiving.org website to download a gift card that lets your child know that an XO laptop is on its way; it is obviously not the same as a laptop, but we hope it helps in some small way. We are working on the logistics of getting XOs to Canada: everyone should have their XO in the January/February time frame. The team at OLPC wants to thank everyone who has thus far participated in Give One Get One. Thanks to the generosity of Canadians, more than 4000 children in the least-developed countries will be receiving laptops in early 2008. --Walter 20:39, 20 December 2007 (EST)

Checking our list... Some of you are comparing notes and noting that some later-day donors got laptops before Day One donors. (I can personally attest to this, since I was the very first person to order a Give One Get One laptop and I have yet to received it.) We did have a glitch and rather than lose a full day's worth of shipping, we shipped to some later-day donors. We did this only after first confirming that we would have enough laptops to ship to the Day One donors by December 24. (We also moved to one and two-day shipping to speed things up.) We appreciate everyone's generosity (and patience); we are doing everything we can to get laptops out as quickly as possible. --Walter 13:06, 21 December 2007 (EST)

About One Laptop per Child

It's an education project, not a laptop project.

—Nicholas Negroponte

This is the wiki for the non-profit One Laptop per Child association. The mission of this association is to develop a low-cost laptop—the "$100 Laptop"—to revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Our goal is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.

Why do children in developing nations need laptops? Laptops are a window and a tool: a window into the world and a tool with which to think. They are a wonderful way for all children to learn learning through independent interaction and exploration.

OLPC espouses five core principles: (1) child ownership; (2) low ages; (3) saturation; (4) connection; and (5) free and open source.

see also: more about the Laptop and OLPC's vision for learning.

Want to know more? Perhaps get involved?

A good place to start is the One Laptop per Child page, which gives an overview of the project. There is a list of frequently asked questions (FAQ); a place to ask a question; places to get involved, participate and current job openings; We can use some extra help translating and preparing content bundles in general, for example. There are numerous pages on hardware, software, content, and the developers program—and a separate wiki for software development. The XO's interface, Sugar, has its own interface guidelines. There are also discussion pages on issues of deployment and country-specific discussions. An extended table of contents is also available.

If you want to try out the laptop, you can emulate the XO on your PC.

OLPC is also carefully filling some full-time positions.

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