Come out this Saturday to OLPC events in New Your City, or San Francisco. Here in the Bay Area, we'll have the OLPC San Francisco Bay Area Summit 2009 - a OLPC-SF community event designed to primarily foster collaboration amongst deployment teams in the SF Bay Area. We also hope that the event will help in improving the visibility of OLPC and Sugar to a wider group around this area. The event is a...
SugarLabs evolved from OLPC with a wider goal to provide an instructionist GIU and computer learning environment for elementary school age kids all over the world. It's engineering goals call for an OS and hardware-agnostic platform, with transparent free and readily accessible and modifiable code that can be also easily shared among users. The normal user has absolute control over the Sugar part but...
For those in Europe, its time for a trip to Hamburg this weekend! Why? Because OLPC Deutschland e.V. will be having its annual meeting to decide how to spend all its loot donations over the next year. But better than that, Bert Freudenberg will be showing off an XO-1.5 - the first in Germany! And with Rita, talking about their summer visit to Squeakfest Brazil. Bert & Rita will also share first-hand...
I've featured NComputing a few times in this blog, largely focusing on their solutions that turn a single workstation into as many as 10 workstations using thin client technologies. In particular, I wrote about NComputing's successful bid beating out Intel and OLPC to provide thin-client computers to as many...
Some friends of mine from college asked the following question about OLPC Afghanistan: Empowering girls' education Greg Mortensen built 200 schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan for less than the cost of one cruise missile. In doing so, he has done vastly more to end Islamic fundamentalism than the entire US effort in Iraq and Afghanistan. Is it enough, C.? No, it isn't enough. Afghanistan needs its...
After the $100 laptop OLPC project, it is the turn of the $80 laptop. You heard me right, this laptop costs only $80 if the video review that follows is to be believed. The $80 laptop branded EasyPC is one of the products rolled out by a Chinese laptop manufacturer - MENQ Group. EasyPC $80 laptop full specifications EasyPC E790 comes with a modest 64MB RAM and 2 GB disk space. While the disk space...
Proper OLPC News meetup style With the OLPC Learning Club DC going to NYC for the Community Summit, its time for us to have an adult-centric XO user group meetup in Washington DC. OLPC News DC Meetup Thursday, November 19, 6:30pm Looking Glass Lounge 3634 Georgia Ave NW One block from the Georgia Avenue-Petworth Metro [ Map ] Mike Lee and I will be there for sure. We'll have an Xtra Ordinary OS XO's...
Its time for a One Laptop Per Child & Sugar Labs Community Summit in New York City. Key community members from OLPC, Sugar Labs, the OLPC Learning Club are converging in the Big Apple to re-catalyze the NYC-area community and touch off regular meetings again. Time, location and agenda details: Saturday November 21; 1 - 4PM The Church of St Mary the Virgin 3rd Floor Meeting Room, Mission House 133...
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Nicholas Negroponte is a living legend in the world of technology. His accomplishments are many, including a co-founder of the MIT Media Laboratory and the founder and chairman of the One Laptop Per Child program. Recently, he spoke with Bostonist about a few issues that will be of interest to ResourceShelf readers. Bostonist: Will we [...]
Techvideoblog has a video review of the Menq Easypc E760, an $80 ARM-based laptop that runs Android. From the looks of it, I don't think this is a very good gadget, because it's slow (less powerful than an iPhone 3GS, but of course also a lot cheaper), but I agree with the Techvideo guy: the Easypc is important because it's the vanguard of a likely wave of cheap, ARM-based devices that will very soon...
OLPC's first laptop, the XO has been both praised and criticized for many things. Perhaps most significant was its incredibly low power consumption, critical for use in areas with very limited electrical capacity. Key to this power consumption was the AMD Geode processor, an utterly anemic piece of...
Google's Chrome OS is launching for download within a week, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington reports , citing a "reliable" source. Could this be what's been holding back Arrington's still-missing-in-action gadget project , the CrunchPad? If you recall, the CrunchPad project is basically the ideal use for Chrome OS: A very simple Web tablet without the need for old-school desktop apps. If we...
While we may have differencing opinions on OLPC or its benefits, the basic questioning of ICT4E evaluations is compelling. Starting with the simple question of "Do we need assessments?", the November Educational Technology Debate is Assessing ICT4E Evaluations, and we've already started with two compelling positions: Nicholas Negroponte holding electricity ICT in Education Assessments are...
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