OLPC Project: Plan, Update, Direction, Participation
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- 1. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor Information Systems Department San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132 USA Creative commons license http://creativecommons.org/ One Laptop per Child Project: Plan, Direction, Update, Participation Presentation: Bay Area Linux Users Group ( http://www.balug.org/ ) hello! Unless noted otherwise
- 2. Multiple hats... Disclaimer: I do not work for OLPC. I am only a volunteer!
- 3. Somebody is finally thinking of the children! To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. — OLPC Mission Statement, It's an education project, not a laptop project. — Nicholas Negroponte
- 5. ooh! laptop! (July 2007)
- 6. Give 1 Get 1 – Nov 2007
- 7. Next thing I know... De facto organizer for olpc-sf http://tinyurl.com/olpcsf
- 8. Where no one has gone [computing] before...
- 9. School Galadima, Abuja City, Nigeria See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Galadima
- 10. Samkha village located in the suburbs of northern Thailand See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Thailand/Ban_Samkha
- 11. Khairat school is India's pilot site. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
- 16. Afghanistan refugee camp, Pakistan http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Pakistan/Atlas_School
- 24. Uruguay: Every primary school child has an XO. http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com/
- 26. 1.6 million XO laptops and counting See Google Maps Deployments worldwide Also see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops
- 29. Sinker: Smart kids everywhere! My involvement?
- 30. OLPC San Francisco Bay Area http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf http://tinyurl.com/olpcsf
- 33. India (Humaira Mahi & Sameer Verma, SFSU)
- 34. Jamaica (Sameer Verma & Univ. of the West Indies)
- 35. Madagascar (June Kleider, XO-ology)
- 36. Senegal (Drew & Lick-Wilmerding Schools)
- 38. San Francisco (Starr King Elementary)
- 44. Resident artist!
- 45. Khairat school is India's first pilot site. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
- 46. Khairat school is India's pilot site. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
- 49. District: Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh
- 52. Children: 1087
- 53. Teachers: 11
- 54. Internet: none
- 56. What's a laptop?
- 57. Under a tree...
- 58. Bhagmalpur photos Bhagmalpur School http://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40063/ Bhagmalpur Village http://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40075/
- 59. Jamaica
- 69. Keur Sadaro, Senegal http://www.extrasleepy.com/keursadaro.html
- 70. OLPC Headquarters 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 72. Cost Electricity Networks Content Languages Pedagogy Age Security Theft Appropriateness ... The challenges
- 73. Cost US $140 at the factory My Lenovo Thinkpad cost me > US $2500
- 75. Yo Yo Charger http://www.potenco.com/products
- 76. Hand Crank Charger http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/Hand_Crank
- 77. Pedal power OLPC Afghanistan http://www.olpc.af/images/HPM/dscf1324.jpg
- 78. Solar Panel http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Product_News#Solar_Panels 5 Watt/14Volt panel
- 80. Networks Offline Moodle Rise of the Sneakernets WWWOFFLE
- 81. Content Open content standards (SCORM, IMS-CP) Creative Commons Offline Wikipedia 1.6 million books from the Internet Archive
- 83. Languages Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Aymara, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Basque, Bengali, Bengali (India), Bislama, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, English (South African), English (US), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, French (Canada), Friulian, Fula, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kreyol, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Marovo, Mongolian, Nauruan, Nepali, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Papiamento, Papua New Guinea Pidgin (Tok Pisin), Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Solomon Islands Pidgin, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Templates, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Walloon, Wolof, Yoruba... Approx. 96+ languages Tutorial: http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452 Translate: http://translate.sugarlabs.org/
- 86. No vendor lock-in on formats
- 87. No royalties on redistribution
- 88. No discrimination based on fields of endeavor
- 89. Scalable global model for software and content
- 96. Principle of "learning through doing"
- 99. Lego Mindstroms
- 100. school...to go
- 101. Educational device or trojan horse? Surprise! Its a REAL computer. It can do REAL computer things!
- 103. Healthcare monitor (O 2 , pulse sensors)
- 106. OLPC XO-1 Speaker Rotate screen Keyboard Mouse pad Microphone Antenna Camera Gamepad Power Battery USB
- 107. XO 1: /proc/cpuinfo
- 108. XO 1 /proc/meminfo
- 109. OLPC XO-1.5 Speaker Rotate screen Keyboard Mouse pad Microphone Antenna Camera Gamepad Power Battery USB Note: XO-1 and XO-1.5 are physically identical
- 111. CPU clock speed: 400 MHz (1.5 W) to 1GHz (5 W), variable.
- 112. An Intel-compatible instruction set (including MMX, SSE, SSE2 & SSE3)
- 113. Companion chips: Via VX855 provides memory interface, a 3D graphics engine, an HD video decoder, USB, SDIO, and other system interface and management functions
- 116. One externally accessible SD card slot as in the original XO.
- 117. XS: OLPC School Server The Internet in a Box unsung hero too!
- 118. School environment Manage content Manage access Manage assessment
- 119. What does the XS look like? Fantasy View
- 120. What does the XS look like? Reality View http://www.flickr.com/photos/popcorncx/149706221/
- 122. Has the oomph needed
- 125. DHCP
- 126. NAT/Masquerading
- 130. Backup files
- 135. Mesh (IEEE 802.11s draft)
- 139. This XO can assign other teachers, course creators, and other such roles
- 143. links via Apache (add Apache config)
- 148. Requires a SD card (4GB and class 6)
- 149. External USB hard drive (needs own power)
- 154. at least 2GB disk storage per laptop.
- 155. Something in the mini ITX form-factor works well.
- 156. Fanless units are better
- 158. 2 to 4GB RAM
- 159. at least 2GB disk storage per laptop.
- 160. This type of a machine usually works in environments with good power resources. http://www.flickr.com/photos/popcorncx/149706221/
- 162. 4 to 16GB RAM
- 163. at least 2GB disk storage per laptop.
- 164. Data center hosting is also an option. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamisonjudd/2433102356/
- 165. School Server
- 166. Don't have an XO but still want the goods?
- 168. Sugar on Debian, Fedora, Gentoo
- 170. Qemu
- 172. Deliver Sugar via LTSP http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads
- 176. Propose
- 177. Other contributors
- 178. Audience or impact
- 179. Brief description
- 180. Relevant experience
- 181. Contact information
- 182. # of XOs needed, and their use Apply at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors
- 187. Made with the free stuff Its your intellectual property. Keep it open. Vote with your fingers. Use open formats! http://www.openoffice.org/