OLPC: How do we gauge success? Will 490,000 units do?
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| Simply put, the OLPC tale is still being written, but rest assured the
| success or failure debate will probably heat up.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7135
Some Ideas for Marketing the OLPC
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| The real one -- that your children can have a better life than you do. That
| they can leap over the boundaries that restrict you, by learning more than
| you know, even if the schools are underfunded and understaffed and
| technically backward, even if you have no money to spend on their education,
| and that after they learn they will show you, too. Is that not every parent's
| dream? That their child will succeed beyond what the parent ever did?
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| That is a dream worth marketing. Because it's true.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071125113058548
Related:
OLPC rolls off the production line
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| Here, for the first time, are pictures of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
| coming off the production line at the Quantas factory in China.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1862
Access Linux Platform (ALP) First Thoughts
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| Like its rival being developed by Palm, Inc., ALP (Access Linux Platform) is
| a Linux-based operating system for smartphones capable of running Palm OS
| applications.
|
| Access Systems (formerly PalmSource) is in the process of trying to drum up
| interest among potential ALP licensees, and couple of people from the
| company -- Albert Chu and Brian Purdy -- gave me a demonstration.
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http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=13471
'$100 laptop' production begins
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| 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.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6908946.stm
OLPC in developing countries @MIT
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| OLPC is testing solar cell panels for the roofs of schools.
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http://olpc.lo-res.org/2007/05/mit.html
OLPC developing new 'supercharger'
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| The XO batteries do not work on normal laptops, which can sap up to 40 watts
| of power depending on usage, Jepsen said.
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| The XO is also the first laptop that uses only alternative energy, Jepsen
| said. Low-cost solar panels are great as a power option where there is plenty
| of sunlight, Jepsen said. Energy is especially scare in developing nations,
| so the laptop will hopefully pass on energy preservation lessons, which could
| help preserve battery life in the XO, Jepsen said.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=558184569&rid=-50
Hey charger! OLPC gets power boost from Aussie coder
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| 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.
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| [...]
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| 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.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=193757623&rid=-50
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