Category Archives: OLPC

We’ve finally gotten around to setting up a planet site for the One Laptop per Child project.  We’re going to be posting regular updates about what’s going on with a lot of different voices around the project.  You can also … Continue reading →

I’m not one for conspiracy theories, but I’ve often wondered if the olpcnews.com site, which popped up some time after the project started to gain momentum, might have backing from one of those many groups that wants the project to … Continue reading →

Robert McQueen has posted a web log entry about getting video teleconferencing from the OLPC XO machine.  This is pretty damn hot and I’m very excited about it.  It basically sells itself. I think we’re going to move as fast … Continue reading →

Go kick some ass, Dan!

Today we received the first large shipment of laptops from the factory. I’m told it’s about a thousand pounds. The boxes are all labeled with the countries the keyboards are built for: The US, Nigeria, Thailand, Argentina, Brazil and Libya. … Continue reading →

We received our first machine in the Cambridge today from the plant. This is one of the hand-assembled models running the browser in Sugar. I have a less blurry picture that was taken using the flash, but the display doesn’t … Continue reading →

I like this idea of sunrise over OLPC because it really captures where we are today. Last night we had our first real run on an assembly line and put together roughly 200 systems. This is the first time that … Continue reading →

(Other possible titles: “shameless self-promotion” and “this post is for my mom.”) I did an interview at the conference today with Amber Mac for citynews. The full interview is available here and the short snippit that they apparently played during … Continue reading →