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summary from the red hat summit

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Christopher Blizzard

We announced a pile of things at the Red Hat Summit. Lots of confusing articles have been written. Lots of press releases have been sent out filled with warnings about forward looking statements. Maybe you just want the run down … Continue reading →

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ati + open source

Posted on May 9, 2007 by Christopher Blizzard

The ATI marketing guy on stage (Henri Richard) at the Red Hat Summit just committed to fixing the ATI problems with open source. To paraphrase “most people are worried about what they will lose…IP, etc…we’re worried about what we can … Continue reading →

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red hat summit 2007

Posted on May 9, 2007 by Christopher Blizzard

I’ll be in San Diego for the 2007 Red Hat Summit. Doing a talk on Wednesday about OLPC and doing a lot of press in between talks.

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job openings for olpc

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Christopher Blizzard

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 laptop per child livecd downloads

Posted on April 12, 2007 by Christopher Blizzard

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

Posted on March 27, 2007 by Christopher Blizzard

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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pictures from fudcon

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Christopher Blizzard
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latest laptop design

Posted on October 16, 2006 by Christopher Blizzard

The design of the laptop has changed over time. It started with the green laptop with the crank. Then we had the blue laptop with the hinge on it. The most recent design, which will be used for the build … Continue reading →

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eben’s keynote is up

Posted on June 7, 2006 by Christopher Blizzard

Eben Moglen’s keynote is now up. It’s insanely great. “It is, of course, a revolution. That’s the first thing. It’s a friendly revolution. You know. You’re the beneficiaries of it.”

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a very different conference

Posted on June 7, 2006 by Christopher Blizzard

I just wanted to echo what I just read in Bob Lord’s entry about the summit. The kinds of keynotes that we see at this corporate event are different than I’ve ever seen at a conference. Yes, but we talked … Continue reading →

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