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vision
- Donations from Give One Get One last year made tremendous changes to some of the neediest places in the world. (blog, release x 7c)
- Ghanaian President Kufuor and The Ghana Laptop per Child Foundation finalize deal for 10,000 laptops (blog, photos)
- Amazon signs on to process G1G1 donations in 2008 (blog, annc)
- Nicholas presented OLPC's future vision to the UN General Assembly in New York (blog, Sep 26)
- Uruguay delivers its 100,000th XO, almost all of them with access to the internet. (blog, en/es)
media: vid.
laptop
- The 8.2 release of Sugar on the XO wins on usability, is set for G1G1 (blog, notes, screenshots link)
- C|Net's Ina Fried reviews Sugar v Windows on the XO (ON, [cnet])
- Laptops trek out into the Gobi desert, to places with no infrastructure
- OLPC unveils models of its next generation model (blog, event)
- The XO joins the ranks of the world's greenest laptops, in recyclability and power consumption. ([1] )
participate
- G1G1 2008 is around the corner. Help spread the word in your community! (blog)
- Host an upgrade party! (blog, DC party)
- OLPC Australia Open Day introduces OLPC to Canberra, October 26 (blog, invite)
- OLPC teenagers set up community repair centers in DC, Chicago. (blog, links)
- Community tech writers launch a week-long Sugar book sprint, producing a beautiful updated manual. (blog, Lulu link)
children
- Colombia prepares to embrace OLPC, rolling out initial purchases and gearing up for their future deployments (blog, photos)
- Rwandan president Paul Kagame commits to OLPC saturation within three years, sets the pace for literacy in Rwanda. (blog, annc)
- Reports from Mongolia
- Schools and development in Haiti
- School updates from New York