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UN to buy 500,000 OLPC laptops for Palestinian children
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| The computers run the open-source Sugar
| software suite, marking a return to OLPC's
| roots after a flirtation with running
| Windows XP on its emblematic green-and-white
| XO laptops.
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| Sugar is now developed by a separate
| organization, Sugar Labs, which also offers
| versions of its Activities software for
| Windows, or on a bootable USB stick running
| on top of a Linux kernel.
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http://www.businessweek.com/idg/2010-04-29/un-to-buy-500-000-olpc-laptops-for-palestinian-children.html
One Laptop per Child targets Middle East and E Africa
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| The rugged machines - which are designed
| specifically for children in the developing
| world and run both Linux and Microsoft
| Windows - are now offered in single units
| for around $200 each.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10091177.stm
Transflective screens finally shipping, Pixel Qi claims
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| Pixel Qi (pronounced "Pixel Chee"), which
| describes itself as a "fabless developer of
| a new class of screens," is a spinoff from
| OLPC (One Laptop Per Child), where the
| former's founder Mary Lou Jepsen is said to
| have invented the XO-1 laptop's sunlight-
| readable display technology. Pictured below,
| the technology allows a portable computer's
| screen to be switched from a standard,
| backlit color mode to a reflective
| monochrome mode, saving power and allowing
| the device to be used even in direct, strong
| sunlight.
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http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Pixel-Qi-screens-on-sale-in-specialized-products/
Recent:
OLPC in Paraguay educates both little kids and teenagers
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| Stop: How do the hackfest meetings work?
|
| Bernie: The participants have different
| software programming skills and the
| teaching method is very informal. Right now
| I have about ten students from 12 to 50
| years old, and only two of them speak
| english. As you can imagine we have some
| problem to communicate with each other, but
| everybody's enthusiasm overcomes the limits
| of my uncertain spanish. The best students
| right now are Benedicto one of the
| Scratcheros, who's only 12 years old, and
| two older guys, Kenny Meyer and Gabriel.
| Kenny already knows well Python and Linux
| and also fixed a bug in one of our
| programs. Gabriel is very serious and
| motivated, wants to learn about everything
| and could help us with reporting bugs from
| the field.
|
| Stop: It looks like the OLPC in Paraguay
| isn't helping just the younger children.
| The project can also offer an excellent
| opportunity to older boys and girls to use
| ICT to do something useful for their peers
| (sometimes it also happens in Italy, as
| Stop! readers know from our JumPC and ITIS
| Linux stories). Congratulations to Bernie
| and we wish to him and all his teen hackers
| success!
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http://stop.zona-m.net/node/147
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