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This page historically hosted announcements and news about OLPC, along with the Sugar Labs current events page.

Upcoming pieces

Learning Chat piece
278 words, ready now.
Making Learning Visible
Claudia's (& Walter) original is 25 pages. Submitted to a journal. w/o OLPC Background it is down to 12-15 pages w/ screenshots.
This can become a 4-part series.
Antonio
Homo docens: 500+ words, Antonio approved my edits.
Further work: we can definitely ask him to contribute on a quarterly basis but I've found that I have to be very specific as to what I am asking to do and he has to be comfortable that it is consistent with his academic work.
Rodrigo
Ometepe - It's a beautiful piece with wonderful images. RAH did a very personal and lengthy version (1500+ words) that he shared with his private distribution list. I did an edited version (1200 words) that could be shared publicly. I'd need to check with RAH on this.
I had hoped that we could do a video series with Rodrigo but the budget hasn't been approved. Giulia - can we get an answer on this?
Africa
We never got approval from Pedro to use Ceri Whatley's piece. Maybe we could use articles written by Julia R. on the Grandmother Africa project.
Rwanda and So. Africa case studies
Peru and Uruguay
Oscar B's piece on the IADB study.
You said that Uruguay and Peru produce a ton of content on a continuous basis. I'm struggling a bit with how we can easily get the content and translate it into English. Giulia - could Olga help? I don't want to burden her with more work. Maybe we do this every 2-3 months.
Colombia
Sandra is producing a newsletter and website that we could extract from. Again, we'd need translation help.
OLPC Australia
Great text and videos.
OLPC Europe
Update from them
OLPC Oceania
OLPC Jamaica
Good video.


News archives

Weekly OLPC News postings to the community-news mailing list give updates on recent work. Weekly summaries were also posted on-wiki during 2008. Weekly postings to the list were put on hold at the start of 2009, and started again in 2010.

Archives: 2005-2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009-10

Translations

Sporadic translations of news archives from 2008 and earlier can be found here:

German | Spanish | Japanese | Korean

OLPC videos

For a history of videos about OLPC and the XO, see olpc.tv and OLPC:Videos.

Sugar news

Walter continues to post summaries of Sugar development on his blog.

Press

For an archive of OLPC media coverage, see the 2005-2008 press archives.

Past announcements

Developed through 2011 by the Racepoint Group, OLPC's pro bono PR firm.