Govt minister goes geek for FOSS day
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| Armed with a One Laptop Per Child computer and kitted out in a Geek Freedom
| League t-shirt, South African deputy minister of science and technology,
| Derek Hanekom, opened Saturday's Software Freedom Day event at the
| departmental offices in Pretoria.
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Government eyes out One Laptop per Child
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1726
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One Laptop Per Child to begin SA pilot
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| Although the roll-out date for One Laptop Per Child’s (OLPC)
| low-cost machine has been put back until October 2007, OLPC is
| using a limited number of trial machines to run pilots to gain
| experience of how it will work in the local context.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1593
One Laptop sighted in Cape Town
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| The laptop, a beta version of the final product, sports a green
| casing, a liquid-proof keyboard, a couple of dust covers for the
| ports and the Sugar operating system which is based on Fedora Core 6.
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Debate widens over over deploying computers in the developing world
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| The controversy boiled over on Saturday at a meeting where Craig
| Barrett, chairman of Intel, squared off with Nicholas Negroponte,
| the former director of the MIT Media Laboratory and head of the
| nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child, which is focusing
| on the 1.2 billion children in the developing world.
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SA Government's OSS plans revealed
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| Migration of current systems is also planned. This will be done in a phased
| approach, beginning with applications such as replacing MS Office with Open
| Office or KOffice and replacing Internet Explorer with Firefox. This will in
| time lead up to the operating system, replacing Windows with a Linux
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| distribution. Migration to Apache for the running of government websites has
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| already occurred within a number of departments.
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