ABOUT OLPC NEWS

About OLPC News. OLPC News is the premier independent community for One Laptop Per Child supporters. We are a recognized voice in the OLPC community, even by Nicholas Negroponte himself. OLPC News commands 5,000 readers a day, each spending an average of 4 minutes on the site. OLPC News Forum has over 4,000 members and 30,000 posts on every

OLPC NEWS AUTHORS

OLPC News is the collective output of a core set of independent authors who challenge our assumptions and initiate though-provoking dialog on the One Laptop per Child program. ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS: ABOUT OLPC NEWS ARCHIVES Apr 2 2014 Join Us on Educational Technology Debate 0; Mar 18 2014 Shutting down OLPC News 20; Mar 11 2014 Goodbye One Laptop per Child 41; Dec 18 2012 We Now Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Program 6; Aug 12 2011 OLPC News in the Post-Wayan Era 3; Aug 5 2011 OLPC News at 5 Years - A Time for Transition 10; Jun 29 2010 Announcing the OLPC News South America Road-trip 4 GOODBYE ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD With the hardware now long past its life expectancy, spare parts hard to find, and zero support from the One Laptop Per Child organization, its time to face reality. The XO-1 laptop is history. Sadly, so is Sugar. Once the flagship of OLPC's creativity in redrawing the human-computer interaction, few are coding for it and new XO variants

are

ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS: RWANDA ARCHIVES Mar 9 2012 Rwanda's OLPC Project Will Be Expanded by Another 100,000 XOs 0; Feb 8 2012 100 XO Project at St. Jacob School in Rwanda 0; Dec 19 2011 OLPC in Rwanda: Transforming Society Through Access to a Modern Education 0; Sep 14 2011 What is the status of OLPC Rwanda in 2011? 8; Jul 21 2011 OLPC Rwanda is now the largest non-South American deployment in the world 0 ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS: XO TABLET ARCHIVES Jan 2 2014 OLPC Upgrades 7" XO Tablet and Adds 10" Version 4; Sep 20 2013 The XO Tablet - A First Impression in 750 Words 11; Sep 4 2013 The Goals of OLPC Have Not Been Met Even With XO Tablets 3; Aug 23 2013 Guest Post: My XO Tablet Technical Review and First Impressions 6; Aug 21 2013 The XO Tablet Violates Fundamental Concepts of One Laptop Per Child 9; Aug 19 2013 Which Is MIGHT OLPC INSPIRE DELL TO OPEN SOURCE LAPTOPS IN USA According to a post on SlashDot: "Within only a few days of Dell opening a new customer feedback website, they discovered that the feature most requested (by an almost 2-to-1 margin!) is an option on all new Dell PCs: pre-installed Linux. ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS: AUGUST 2006 ARCHIVES Aug 24 2006 Quanta Building CM1 in Changshu 3. Aug 24 2006 Children's Machine (CM1) Production Specs 2. Aug 24 2006 The Children's Machine (CM1) from One Laptop per Child 2. Aug 23 2006 Jesus Followers Just Say No to OLPC 2. Aug 22 2006 OLPC's Ordered Deployed Tested in Thailand Everywhere 1. Aug 22 2006 Dual-Mode Display Details 2. ETHIOPIA IMPLEMENTATION REPORT, SEPTEMBER Ethiopia Implementation Report, September - December 2007. www.eduvision.ch. 4. From September to December 2007 Eduvision embarked on a joint venture with GTZ/ECBP in order to conduct ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS: JUNE 2006 ARCHIVES XO Tablets for Sale. Buy Your XO Tablet on Amazon.com OLPC is selling the new XO Tablets on Amazon.com for just $149. Buy yours today!

ABOUT OLPC NEWS

About OLPC News. OLPC News is the premier independent community for One Laptop Per Child supporters. We are a recognized voice in the OLPC community, even by Nicholas Negroponte himself. OLPC News commands 5,000 readers a day, each spending an average of 4 minutes on the site. OLPC News Forum has over 4,000 members and 30,000 posts on every

OLPC NEWS AUTHORS

OLPC News is the collective output of a core set of independent authors who challenge our assumptions and initiate though-provoking dialog on the One Laptop per Child program. ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS: ABOUT OLPC NEWS ARCHIVES Apr 2 2014 Join Us on Educational Technology Debate 0; Mar 18 2014 Shutting down OLPC News 20; Mar 11 2014 Goodbye One Laptop per Child 41; Dec 18 2012 We Now Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Program 6; Aug 12 2011 OLPC News in the Post-Wayan Era 3; Aug 5 2011 OLPC News at 5 Years - A Time for Transition 10; Jun 29 2010 Announcing the OLPC News South America Road-trip 4 GOODBYE ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD With the hardware now long past its life expectancy, spare parts hard to find, and zero support from the One Laptop Per Child organization, its time to face reality. The XO-1 laptop is history. Sadly, so is Sugar. Once the flagship of OLPC's creativity in redrawing the human-computer interaction, few are coding for it and new XO variants

are

ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS: RWANDA ARCHIVES Mar 9 2012 Rwanda's OLPC Project Will Be Expanded by Another 100,000 XOs 0; Feb 8 2012 100 XO Project at St. Jacob School in Rwanda 0; Dec 19 2011 OLPC in Rwanda: Transforming Society Through Access to a Modern Education 0; Sep 14 2011 What is the status of OLPC Rwanda in 2011? 8; Jul 21 2011 OLPC Rwanda is now the largest non-South American deployment in the world 0 ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS: XO TABLET ARCHIVES Jan 2 2014 OLPC Upgrades 7" XO Tablet and Adds 10" Version 4; Sep 20 2013 The XO Tablet - A First Impression in 750 Words 11; Sep 4 2013 The Goals of OLPC Have Not Been Met Even With XO Tablets 3; Aug 23 2013 Guest Post: My XO Tablet Technical Review and First Impressions 6; Aug 21 2013 The XO Tablet Violates Fundamental Concepts of One Laptop Per Child 9; Aug 19 2013 Which Is MIGHT OLPC INSPIRE DELL TO OPEN SOURCE LAPTOPS IN USA According to a post on SlashDot: "Within only a few days of Dell opening a new customer feedback website, they discovered that the feature most requested (by an almost 2-to-1 margin!) is an option on all new Dell PCs: pre-installed Linux. ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS: AUGUST 2006 ARCHIVES Aug 24 2006 Quanta Building CM1 in Changshu 3. Aug 24 2006 Children's Machine (CM1) Production Specs 2. Aug 24 2006 The Children's Machine (CM1) from One Laptop per Child 2. Aug 23 2006 Jesus Followers Just Say No to OLPC 2. Aug 22 2006 OLPC's Ordered Deployed Tested in Thailand Everywhere 1. Aug 22 2006 Dual-Mode Display Details 2. ETHIOPIA IMPLEMENTATION REPORT, SEPTEMBER Ethiopia Implementation Report, September - December 2007. www.eduvision.ch. 4. From September to December 2007 Eduvision embarked on a joint venture with GTZ/ECBP in order to conduct ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS: JUNE 2006 ARCHIVES XO Tablets for Sale. Buy Your XO Tablet on Amazon.com OLPC is selling the new XO Tablets on Amazon.com for just $149. Buy yours today! ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS: ABOUT OLPC NEWS ARCHIVES Apr 2 2014 Join Us on Educational Technology Debate 0; Mar 18 2014 Shutting down OLPC News 20; Mar 11 2014 Goodbye One Laptop per Child 41; Dec 18 2012 We Now Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Program 6; Aug 12 2011 OLPC News in the Post-Wayan Era 3; Aug 5 2011 OLPC News at 5 Years - A Time for Transition 10; Jun 29 2010 Announcing the OLPC News South America Road-trip 4 ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS: RWANDA ARCHIVES Mar 9 2012 Rwanda's OLPC Project Will Be Expanded by Another 100,000 XOs 0; Feb 8 2012 100 XO Project at St. Jacob School in Rwanda 0; Dec 19 2011 OLPC in Rwanda: Transforming Society Through Access to a Modern Education 0; Sep 14 2011 What is the status of OLPC Rwanda in 2011? 8; Jul 21 2011 OLPC Rwanda is now the largest non-South American deployment in the world 0 ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS: XO-4 ARCHIVES Apr 1 2013 OLPC Hits $100 Price with Ad-Supported XO-4s 4; Aug 31 2012 OLPC XO-4 Will Provide Significant Performance Boost, Add New Wireless and Storage Options 2; Aug 22 2012 OLPC XO-4 Touch Expected to be Released in Q1 / 2013 2 ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS: AFGHANISTAN ARCHIVES Jun 21 2013 G+ Hangout On Air: Enabling Literacy and Learning in Afghanistan 2; Jul 6 2011 Remote Support Job Opportunities in Afghanistan 0; Aug 10 2010 Nicholas Negroponte's Hard Sell for OLPC Afghanistan: Half of 1 Percent for an XO Laptop for Every Afghan Child 15; Apr 30 2010 Real Voices From OLPC Afghanistan XO Laptop Users 1; Apr 21 2010 One Laptop Per Child Can Help ZDNET UK: OLPC NOT A GOOD BEGINNING While ZDNet UK has expressed its reservations about the OLPC before, today it came out fully against the project saying "the $100 portable is not the right tool for the job".Echoing the concerns of many, they focus on three areas of concer: ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS: NOVEMBER 2011 ARCHIVES Nov 30 2011 Libro: "Movilización social para Ceibal" 0; Nov 28 2011 OLPC Releases New OS 11.3.0 for XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75 0; Nov 25 2011 OLPC Niue Just Needs Helicopters! 12; Nov 23 2011 Learning From OLPC Experiences in Niue and Elsewhere 4; Nov 21 2011 OLPC Niue Ends - The first total One Laptop Per Child country now the first to quit OLPC 17; Nov 18 2011 "When Me See Di XO" - ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS: SEPTEMBER 2006 ARCHIVES Sep 29 2006 Classmate PC vs. 2B1 Children's Machine 14; Sep 28 2006 OLPC in Argentina by the Numbers 13; Sep 27 2006 A Blizzard of OLPC Development Progress 4; Sep 26 2006 India to Attempt $10 Laptop Per Child 15; Sep 25 2006 Nicholas Negroponte - Agenda Setter 2006 0; Sep 22 2006 OLPC Profit: $8 Million Per Order? 12; Sep 22 2006 SES offers OLPC Global Satellite Bandwidth 3 ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS: AUGUST 2007 ARCHIVES Aug 31 2007 Quanta to Sell XO Laptops Outside of OLPC Organization 22; Aug 30 2007 Google gPhone: A One Laptop Per Child Competitor?! 4; Aug 29 2007 OLPC News One Year Anniversary 5; Aug 28 2007 OLPC Oceania's Participatory Development Implementation Plan 4; Aug 27 2007 One INDEX Award Per XO Laptop Design Team 0; Aug 23 2007 OLPC Oceania: Solomon Islands XO-1 Laptop Pilot 6 ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS: MAY 2008 ARCHIVES May 31 2008 Are Some OLPC Mission Statements More Equal? 6; May 30 2008 Children of Colombia, Speaking to the World 3; May 29 2008 Tweet! Tweet! olpc news now on Twitter 6; May 28 2008 Why the World Needs the XO-2 13; May 27 2008 Cost breakdown of OLPC Haiti's Project HA-T1093 7; May 26 2008 OLPC Sur: Grassroots in Action 1; May 25 2008 Is the XO Really the Ultimate E-Book ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS: NOVEMBER 2008 ARCHIVES XO Tablets for Sale. Buy Your XO Tablet on Amazon.com OLPC is selling the new XO Tablets on Amazon.com for just $149. Buy yours today! ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD NEWS YOUR INDEPENDENT NEWS, INFORMATION, COMMENTARY, AND DISCUSSION OF ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD AND THE XO LAPTOP. SUBSCRIBE AND JOIN THE CONVERSATION

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JOIN US ON EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY DEBATE

2 Apr 2014

If you are looking for cutting edge commentary and deep analysis of one laptop per child movements around the world, or really, any and all uses of technology in education, please direct your attention to: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY DEBATE That's where everyone is now. Join us there. Thanks...

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Posted by Wayan Vota on April 2, 2014 in About OLPC News

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SHUTTING DOWN OLPC NEWS

18 Mar 2014

_Resumen en español al final del artículo_ Today we're announcing that we have decided to shut down OLPC News. That means we'll stop publishing new content but we won't take the

site offline.

In retrospective this is something that I should have done six months ago when Wayan first brought this up. Or at the very least I should have simply used my Happy New Year from OLPC News post to do so because reading through it now it actually says almost everything I'd want to say in a goodbye post. _Writing up my South America experiences in Wayan's kitchen in August

of 2010_

So rather than repeat myself, my next thought was to take you on a quick trip down memory lane into how I got started on this rollercoaster ride with OLPC News and OLPC 7 ½ years ago. However 100 words in I realized that I was about to really repeat myself because I wrote all that up 2 ½ years ago when I formally took over the site and announced the Post-Wayan Era

.

As such all that really remains to be said here is to thank all those who made OLPC happen (else, we would have had nothing to write about) and everyone who contributed to, commented (and yes, that also includes you Mephisto), shared, and read OLPC News and for making the past 7 years here such an amazing experience. Looking at Google Analytics shows that we've had more than 2.2 million unique visitors and over 7.3 million pageviews since the site was launched. Including Wayan's Goodbye One Laptop per Child

,

OLPC Association's reply to it

,

and this final piece we'll have published 1842 articles which received a total of more than 16,000 comments. Aside of all these numbers I think it's fair to say that OLPC News has had a significant impact on the discussions around OLPC and within the wider ICT for Education (ICT4E) community (though I'm well aware that there's a range of opinions on whether that impact was positive or negative;-). As for myself: What I wrote in that Happy New Year post back on December 31 still very much applies: > The core challenge that drives me remains figuring out how to > integrate information and communication technologies in education in > developing countries. So while I will definitely remain part of the olpc community, I'll also continue to explore other approaches to improve learning with the support of technology. Given how much I enjoy writing you also shouldn't be surprised to stumble across the occasional post by yours truly on one or another ICT4E outlet. Especially since I strongly believe that the larger ICT4E world can still learn a lot from the aggregated experiences around OLPC and thereby avoid what Alan Kay once called "re-inventing the flat tire". _If you want to keep in touch please feel free to e-mail me at christoph@derndorfer.eu, keep an eye out for the occasional post on my personal blog or simply follow me on Google+ or Twitter

._

------------------------- RESUMEN EN ESPAÑOL: Hoy estamos anunciando que hemos decidido cerrar

OLPC News.

En retrospectiva esto es algo que debería haber hecho hace seis meses, cuando Wayan por primera vez lo sugirió. O por lo menos debería haber simplemente usado mi Feliz Año Nuevo de OLPC NEWS articulo para hacerlo ya que lo leo ahora realmente dice casi todo lo que me gustaría decir en un post de despedida. Así que en lugar de repetir a mí mismo mi siguiente pensamiento fue que le llevará en un viaje rápido como me inicié en este viaje con OLPC News y OLPC hace 7 años y medio. Sin embargo despues de 100 palabras me di cuenta de que yo estaba a punto de realmente repetirme porque escribí todo esto hace 2 años y medio cuando tomé formalmente el sitio y anuncié la era post-Wayan

.

Como todo lo que realmente aún no se ha dicho aquí es como dar las gracias a todos los que hizieron posible a OLPC (sino habríamos tenido nada que escribir) y todos que contribuyeron, comentaron (y sí, eso incluye también a ti Mephisto;-), compartieron y leyeron OLPC News y para hacer los últimos 7 años aquí una experiencia

increíble.

Google Analytics muestra que hemos tenido más de 2,2 millones de visitantes únicos y más de 7,3 millones de páginas vistas desde que se lanzó el sitio. Incluyendo los dos posts de Wayan de la semana pasada y esta pieza final habremos publicado 1.842 artículos que han recibido un total de más de 16.000 comentarios. Aparte de todos estos números creo que es justo decir que OLPC News ha tenido un impacto significativo en las discusiones en torno a OLPC y dentro de la comunidad más amplia de las TIC para la Educación (ICT4E) (aunque estoy muy consciente de que hay una gama de opiniones acerca de si ese impacto ha sido positivo o negativo;-) En cuanto a mí: Lo que escribí en ese mensaje Feliz Año Nuevo de nuevo el 31 de diciembre todavía es muy válido: > El reto principal que me impulsa sigue siendo encontrar la manera de > integrar las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en > la educación en los países en desarrollo. Así, mientras que sin duda seguir siendo parte de la comunidad olpc, yo también voy a seguir explorar otros enfoques para mejorar el aprendizaje con el apoyo de la tecnología. Teniendo en cuenta lo mucho que me gusta escribir también no debe sorprenderse de tropezar con un mensaje mio en una o en otra publicacion sobre ICT4E. Sobre todo porque creo firmemente que el mundo ICT4E todavía puede aprender mucho de las experiencias globales alrededor OLPC y así evitar lo que Alan Kay una vez llamó "volver a inventar la rueda pinchada". _Si desea mantenerse en contacto por favor no dude en enviarme un correo electrónico a christoph@derndorfer.eu, mantener un ojo hacia fuera para el puesto ocassional en mi blog personal o simplemente seguirme en Google+

o Twitter

._

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Posted by Christoph Derndorfer on March 18, 2014 in About OLPC News Tagged Christoph Derndorfer

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OLPC News

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Wayan Vota

NEWS FLASH: OLPC ASSOCIATION LIVES ON

12 Mar 2014

While the One Laptop Per Child Foundation, the Boston branch of our favorite laptop project is dead, the OLPC Association, the Miami-based group focused on XO sales, jumped to life yesterday and pronounced its

viability.

Here is Giulia D'Amico

, Vice President of

Business Development, on their present and future

:

> OLPC's mission to empower the world's children through education is > far from over. OLPC is thriving and making more inroads at bringing > education to those who can't easily access it. OLPC recently formed > a strategic alliance with the Zamora Teran family through many of > their enterprises and their philanthropic foundation, the > "Fundación Zamora Teran to deliver XO laptops not only to Central > and South America, but also to Africa.

>

> Aside from distributing more laptops in several schools in Costa > Rica, Uruguay is receiving its first 50k units of the XO-4 Touch > (running Android) in a few weeks' time. In addition, the XO Tablet > is currently available directly through governments and NGOs, as > well as in Europe and Canada and through all major retail outlets in > the United States including Walmart, Amazon, Toys 'R Us among the

> others.

>

> OLPC also has outsourced many of the software and development units > because the organization is becoming more hardware and OS agnostic, > concentrating on its core values - education. As an example, we've > partnered with the Smithsonian Museum to bring feature-rich, > interactive and more targeted content to our young learners.

>

> We have more exciting things planned in the horizon including the > implementation of very large scale projects in several regions of > the world, so be sure to stay tuned. For those following along at home, the XO Tablet is interesting, I like it for the US market, but I don't see it as a developing world education solution.

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Posted by Wayan Vota on March 12, 2014 in People: Leadership GOODBYE ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD

11 Mar 2014

Here is a question for you: 8 years on, would you recommend anyone start a new deployment with XO-1 laptops? With the hardware now long past its life expectancy, spare parts hard to find, and zero support from the One Laptop Per Child organization, its time to face reality. The XO-1 laptop is history. Sadly, so is Sugar . Once the flagship of OLPC's creativity in redrawing the human-computer interaction, few are coding for it and new XO variants are mostly Android/Gnome+Fedora dual

boots .

Continue reading Goodbye One Laptop per Child

.

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Posted by Wayan Vota on March 11, 2014 in About OLPC News

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A PHD THESIS ABOUT OLPC ASKS: WHAT ARE WE DOING? WHAT ARE WE BRINGING?

6 Mar 2014

My name is Lars Bo Andersen and I have spent the last five years studying OLPC and, in particular, one small project at a school in Nigeria (which I call Akila's school after one

of the students).

I have written a PhD thesis about OLPC, Akila and the school which I defended at Aarhus University in Denmark on the 27th of February: There is, amongst others, a chapter describing the theories and debates around OLPC, there is one investigating how the initiative rose to fame and there are several more specific investigations of the laptops at Akila's school (e.g. chapters 5

and 6

).

In this post I would like to share some general thoughts with the OLPC News community and, if possible, have them debated in the comments. Continue reading A PhD Thesis About OLPC Asks: What are we doing? What are we bringing?

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Posted by Guest Writer on March 6, 2014 in Commentary: Academia Tagged Aarhus University

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OLPC UPGRADES 7" XO TABLET AND ADDS 10" VERSION

2 Jan 2014

Ahead of next week's Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas - an event which OLPC Association has repeatedly used for making announcements in recent years - Brad Linder from liliputing.com

reports

that OLPC Association and Vivitar will release a slightly updated version of the 7" XO Tablet. Additionally they will add a 10" version of the XO Tablet to the lineup. Brad's article says that the updated 7" XO Tablet is expected to cost $150 whereas the 10" version should cost $200. There's no information on when these new tablets will become available and if they'll also be available outside of the United States. Continue reading OLPC Upgrades 7" XO Tablet and Adds 10" Version

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Posted by Christoph Derndorfer on January 2, 2014 in Tablets: XO Tablet

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HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM OLPC NEWS

31 Dec 2013

photo by DustyDingo

As I sit here and go through our posts from 2013 instead of getting ready for tonight's celebrations I can't shake one thought from my head: It's been a weird year when it comes to One Laptop per Child. And no, I don't mean that it's been a year in which nothing happened. However as you can tell from the low quantity of posts - in the past 12 months we've published only about two dozen articles - there haven't been too many things that got me excited enough to start writing about them. The reality is that much of what has happened has been somewhat depressing. Even though many people within the global olpc community have denied it for much of the year it's now become painfully obvious that OLPC as an organization is very different today then it was back in 2012 in earlier. Of course different doesn't automatically mean worse but personally I can neither get excited about nor much believe in the value of the XO Tablet which is what OLPC Association in Miami largely

focused on in 2013.

Continue reading Happy New Year from OLPC News

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Posted by Christoph Derndorfer on December 31, 2013 in Commentary: OLPC News

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WALKING FAR: OLPC SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY SUMMIT 2013

4 Oct 2013

> "If you want to walk fast, walk alone; but if you want to walk far, > walk together". --African proverb, by way of Samuel Kobia Mark your calendar! We hope to see you at the fifth OLPC San Francisco Community Summit from OCTOBER 18 TO 20,

2013.

The summit will be held at San Francisco State University 's downtown campus at 5th & Market (835 Market

St.) San Francisco

.

We will be opening a call for proposals, posters, speedgeek, and such in a few days. We begin on Friday, Oct 18th with a welcome reception and wrap up on Sunday, Oct 20th with a closing party. On behalf of the OLPC San Francisco volunteer community and our hosts at San Francisco State University, I invite you to the summit. Let's get together, so

we may walk far.

Continue reading Walking far: OLPC San Francisco Community Summit

2013

.

0 Comments

Posted by Guest Writer on October 4, 2013 in Use Cases: Community

Tagged community

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Community Summit 2013

,

Sameer Verma

,

San Francisco

THE XO TABLET - A FIRST IMPRESSION IN 750 WORDS

20 Sep 2013

Its not often one gets to brag about owning the only gadget in a whole country - but as the XO Tablet is only available from the USA, and the Australia arm of OLPC aren't touching it, right now this is the case. Thanks to the generosity of fellow EdTech experimenters Wayan Vota and John Hunt, my 6 year old daughter has now logged about 10 hours on this latest iteration of what a 'green machine' can be and I'm ready to report some first impressions. I'll get to her thoughts shortly - but first, given the at times highly charged nature of all-things OLPC, some context. I have written for OLPC News before, am the Dad of a child in the target audience for the XO Tablet, and am a long-time OLPC supporter (with nearly 4 years of being employed by a state education department to support XO deployments). I'm also a well-known exponent of that other transformative mobile platform, the iPad, of which I've owned every model and even co-founded the Slide2learn.net community to support. I've also owned a Nexus7 Android tablet since its launch. What I'm trying to say is that I couldn't have been more excited to get an XO tablet that sits right at the convergence of all these interests. Continue reading The XO Tablet - A First Impression in 750 Words

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Posted by Guest Writer on September 20, 2013 in Tablets: XO Tablet

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Oh, come on Michael. Do you really think anything that was said on OLPC News would have had much … Comment on Goodbye One Laptop per Child WARNING: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /NFS/C03/H05/MNT/54379/DOMAINS/OLPCNEWS.COM/HTML/INCLUDES_C/SIDEBAR.HTML

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Hi!

I bought 2 "Tablets OLPC." I had to return because the two did not

work. O …

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Dear sir

I have one question to sir? -1 why XO Tablet children play OK but when h … Comment on The XO Tablet - A First Impression in 750 Words WARNING: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /NFS/C03/H05/MNT/54379/DOMAINS/OLPCNEWS.COM/HTML/INCLUDES_C/SIDEBAR.HTML

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Dear sir

I have one question to sir? -1 why XO Tablet children play OK but when h … Comment on The XO Tablet - A First Impression in 750 Words WARNING: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /NFS/C03/H05/MNT/54379/DOMAINS/OLPCNEWS.COM/HTML/INCLUDES_C/SIDEBAR.HTML

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Dear sir

I have one question to sir? -1 why XO Tablet children play OK but when h … Comment on Guest Post: My XO Tablet Technical Review and First

Impressions

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Bonjour Mokifisi!

Je suis bien d'accord avec vous. Je travaille depuis 4 ans dans un

petit …

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You just follow the same route upstream how you got the 2XO Tablets? How did you get them? Bring … Comment on The XO Tablet - A First Impression in 750 Words WARNING: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /NFS/C03/H05/MNT/54379/DOMAINS/OLPCNEWS.COM/HTML/INCLUDES_C/SIDEBAR.HTML

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� quelle adresse envoyer mes deux XOTablet qui ne fonctionnent pas? At what address to s … Comment on The XO Tablet - A First Impression in 750 Words WARNING: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /NFS/C03/H05/MNT/54379/DOMAINS/OLPCNEWS.COM/HTML/INCLUDES_C/SIDEBAR.HTML

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That's called "Death on arrivals". They happen. That's why there's always some additio … Comment on The XO Tablet - A First Impression in 750 Words WARNING: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /NFS/C03/H05/MNT/54379/DOMAINS/OLPCNEWS.COM/HTML/INCLUDES_C/SIDEBAR.HTML

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What is a shelf XO? If you tell me what did you buy and from whom, perhaps I will have a suggest … Comment on Goodbye One Laptop per Child WARNING: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /NFS/C03/H05/MNT/54379/DOMAINS/OLPCNEWS.COM/HTML/INCLUDES_C/SIDEBAR.HTML

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Voici mon message en fran�ais...

Bonjour,

Je viens d'acheter 2 tablettes XO. Les d … Comment on The XO Tablet - A First Impression in 750 Words WARNING: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /NFS/C03/H05/MNT/54379/DOMAINS/OLPCNEWS.COM/HTML/INCLUDES_C/SIDEBAR.HTML

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I just bought 2 shelves XO. Both tablets are not working. One does not start and the other touch … Comment on The XO Tablet - A First Impression in 750 Words WARNING: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /NFS/C03/H05/MNT/54379/DOMAINS/OLPCNEWS.COM/HTML/INCLUDES_C/SIDEBAR.HTML

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I just bought 2 shelves XO. Both tablets are not working. One does not start and the other touch … Comment on Goodbye One Laptop per Child WARNING: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /NFS/C03/H05/MNT/54379/DOMAINS/OLPCNEWS.COM/HTML/INCLUDES_C/SIDEBAR.HTML

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I just bought 2 shelves XO. Both tablets are not working. One does not start and the other touch … Comment on Goodbye One Laptop per Child WARNING: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /NFS/C03/H05/MNT/54379/DOMAINS/OLPCNEWS.COM/HTML/INCLUDES_C/SIDEBAR.HTML

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OLPC is not death; eg. this One Laptop per Child San Francisco (OLPC-SF) June 21, 2014 Meeting a … Comment on Goodbye One Laptop per Child

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