Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

[News] Google OLPC Funding Used to Improve Battery Life

  • Subject: [News] Google OLPC Funding Used to Improve Battery Life
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:44:14 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Hey charger! OLPC gets power boost from Aussie coder

,----[ Quote ]
| A 21-year-old Australian is playing a key part in developing the charger unit 
| for the XO-1 -- the laptop which is the center of the One Laptop Per Child 
| project.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| According to it's website, GSoC aims to "get more open source created and 
| released for the benefit of all", and requires students to licence all GSoC 
| code under a licence acceptable to their host organisation.  
`----

http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=193757623&rid=-50


Related:

'$100 laptop' production begins

,----[ Quote ]
| Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of 
| all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines. 
| Previously, the organisation behind the scheme said that it required orders 
| for 3m laptops to make production viable. The first machines should be ready 
| to put into the hands of children in developing countries in October 2007.    
`----

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6908946.stm


Students aim for One Laptop Per Child

,----[ Quote ]
| One way the laptops, called the XO, can be so inexpensive is that all their 
| programs are created and customized using open source, which means all codes 
| are made freely available and no one company owns the copyright. That brings 
| together millions of hours of work instead of having to start from scratch 
| for each program, Burns said.    
| 
| Burns thought OLPC was an interesting idea, and he went online to find out 
| more, getting on the mailing lists and making contact with project 
| coordinators. When coordinators learned that he was a student at Oregon State 
| University and worked at the university's Network Services, they asked if he 
| could work on the word processor.    
`----

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006707040328

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index