Category Archives: OLPC

job openings for olpc

Red Hat has a few job openings to work on the One Laptop per Child project: Software Engineer II: This terrible job title is code for awesome engineer. We’re looking to build an update system for OLPC that isn’t the … Continue reading

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one football per child

Thais hope freebies will boost World Cup chances Worawi Makudi, a FIFA executive committee member, said soccer-mad Thailand was being held back by poverty and that children in rural areas had little or no chance to play the game properly … Continue reading

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the journal for one laptop

Bryan finally posted something about the Journal idea that he and Seth had been worked on way back when. We’re using a lot of these ideas for some of the basic interactions in OLPC. His mockup was rudimentary, as most … Continue reading

Posted in Design, Fedora, Mugshot, OLPC | 9 Comments

one laptop per child livecd downloads

When I asked John to build livecd images the original goal was to have something to take to FISL so that developers could do some development on the laptops. John and Tomeu (one of the other wonderful sugar developers) were … Continue reading

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meet the people behind the people

A few weeks ago, Julie Bryce came up to OLPC from Red Hat in North Carolina and did a series of interviews with people inside of the OLPC organization that are doing the on the ground work to make the … Continue reading

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this is how easy it can be

Greg DeKoenigsberg, based on a lot of good work by Owen Williams, put up a Red Hat Magazine article about how to build a simple activity for the OLPC XO laptop. The article itself is good, of course, but I … Continue reading

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irc quote of the day

marco: we are getting flamed by interesting people :)

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taking good notes

I’m often accused of “being a good note taker” during meetings.  I recently did a talk at NYLUG about OLPC and someone blogged about it.  It’s probably the best overview of anything that I’ve seen of what we’re doing, largely … Continue reading

Posted in Fedora, OLPC | 4 Comments

LX vs. GX

Matthew is completely right about the difference between the LX and the GX.  It’s not just about clock speed.  There are also huge differences on the video side of the house.  The LX supports accelerated rotation, can convert between different … Continue reading

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speaking at nylug

Another moment of shameless self-promotion. I’ll be speaking tomorrow night at the NYLUG meeting about OLPC, Fedora and other related topics.  If you’re in the New York area, come and down and visit.  Should be a good time.

Posted in Fedora, GNOME, Mozilla, OLPC | 5 Comments