Hello Linuxers,
I am visiting from San Francisco on vacation. I have been working with the One Laptop per Child project in volunteer capacity for a few years now. I organize and host meetings for the OLPC San Francisco group. Most of my research revolves around FOSS as innovation, and sustainable IT infrastructures. Projects I've worked with: Ubuntu, Fedora, Asterisk, OpenMoko, Maemo, Nocat, Jabber, Moodle, Drupal, etc.
I was referred to this group by someone, so this is a shot in the dark :-) I am not sure if any of you are involved in OLPC efforts both in India and worldwide. Here are a few basic facts: The OLPC project is based largely on Fedora (7 and 9) and runs on XO laptops that are powered by a 433MHz x86 Geode processor with 256 MB RAM. The laptop itself consumes a max of 8 watts. There are approx 600,000 OLPC XO laptops in the field with children worldwide - the next generation - with 55,000 laptops shipping out each month. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? ;-)
I will be in Mumbai until the 26th. If there is any interest, I'd be happy to meet/present on the project, its approach, the role of FOSS, etc. Ping me on or offlist. I'm also copying Amit Gogna of Reliance who has worked with this project in India and has been instrumental in the first pilot study. Maybe some of you can connect with him.
cheers, Sameer
Dear Sameer,
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Sameer Verma sverma@sfsu.edu wrote:
Hello Linuxers,
I am visiting from San Francisco on vacation. I have been working with the One Laptop per Child project in volunteer capacity for a few years now. I organize and host meetings for the OLPC San Francisco group. Most of my research revolves around FOSS as innovation, and sustainable IT infrastructures. Projects I've worked with: Ubuntu, Fedora, Asterisk, OpenMoko, Maemo, Nocat, Jabber, Moodle, Drupal, etc.
It's nice to know about your contributions in FOSS.
I was referred to this group by someone, so this is a shot in the dark :-) I am not sure if any of you are involved in OLPC efforts both in India and worldwide. Here are a few basic facts: The OLPC project is based largely on Fedora (7 and 9) and runs on XO laptops that are powered by a 433MHz x86 Geode processor with 256 MB RAM. The laptop itself consumes a max of 8 watts. There are approx 600,000 OLPC XO laptops in the field with children worldwide - the next generation - with 55,000 laptops shipping out each month. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? ;-)
We as group is not directly involved with OLPC. However, many members of the list may have worked on OLPC or other similar project. Many more would be interested in knowing more and ways to get involved.
I will be in Mumbai until the 26th. If there is any interest, I'd be happy to meet/present on the project, its approach, the role of FOSS, etc. Ping me on or offlist. I'm also copying Amit Gogna of Reliance who has worked with this project in India and has been instrumental in the first pilot study. Maybe some of you can connect with him.
We just yesterday held a ILUG-Bom meet @ Powai. Next is scheduled either on 16th or 23rd Nov. However, we can have BoF like session at the venue of your choice before your departure and all interested people can participate.
And Hello to Amit. I hope you are on the list?
cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
Will be happy to meet in BoF and learn more about OLPC and accessible computing. With regards,
Hi Sameer,
I am interested in finding out how we as individuals can purchase these OLPC laptops, either for our own use or for gifting them to deserving kids. There are some of us who dont have money like Reliance to buy / fund or donate by thousands but can purchase and given 1 or 2 at a time to people we know will make good use of it.
I have not seen any information on this till date.
Regards Saswata
Dinesh Shah (????? ???/????? ???) wrote:
Dear Sameer,
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Sameer Verma sverma@sfsu.edu wrote:
Hello Linuxers,
I am visiting from San Francisco on vacation. I have been working with the One Laptop per Child project in volunteer capacity for a few years now. I organize and host meetings for the OLPC San Francisco group. Most of my research revolves around FOSS as innovation, and sustainable IT infrastructures. Projects I've worked with: Ubuntu, Fedora, Asterisk, OpenMoko, Maemo, Nocat, Jabber, Moodle, Drupal, etc.
It's nice to know about your contributions in FOSS.
I was referred to this group by someone, so this is a shot in the dark :-) I am not sure if any of you are involved in OLPC efforts both in India and worldwide. Here are a few basic facts: The OLPC project is based largely on Fedora (7 and 9) and runs on XO laptops that are powered by a 433MHz x86 Geode processor with 256 MB RAM. The laptop itself consumes a max of 8 watts. There are approx 600,000 OLPC XO laptops in the field with children worldwide - the next generation - with 55,000 laptops shipping out each month. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? ;-)
We as group is not directly involved with OLPC. However, many members of the list may have worked on OLPC or other similar project. Many more would be interested in knowing more and ways to get involved.
I will be in Mumbai until the 26th. If there is any interest, I'd be happy to meet/present on the project, its approach, the role of FOSS, etc. Ping me on or offlist. I'm also copying Amit Gogna of Reliance who has worked with this project in India and has been instrumental in the first pilot study. Maybe some of you can connect with him.
We just yesterday held a ILUG-Bom meet @ Powai. Next is scheduled either on 16th or 23rd Nov. However, we can have BoF like session at the venue of your choice before your departure and all interested people can participate.
And Hello to Amit. I hope you are on the list?
cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
Will be happy to meet in BoF and learn more about OLPC and accessible computing. With regards,
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Saswata Banerjee scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com wrote:
Hi Sameer,
I am interested in finding out how we as individuals can purchase these OLPC laptops, either for our own use or for gifting them to deserving kids. There are some of us who dont have money like Reliance to buy / fund or donate by thousands but can purchase and given 1 or 2 at a time to people we know will make good use of it.
I have not seen any information on this till date.
Hi Saswata,
The only thing I know of in the near future is the Give one Get one program that will begin on Nov 17 via Amazon (http://amazon.com/xo). This is going to be a US only deal at first but there are plans to take this to Europe and Asia.
The other option is to run it on your Linux machines directly. If you go to http://sugarlabs.org/ you should be able to get instructions for installing the packages under Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, etc. You will get a functioning Sugar environment on your desktop. People have even suggested LTSP based labs at primary schools with Sugar on the desktop.
I would definitely recommend joining the India list at OLPC: http://lists.laptop.org/ IMO this project needs significant advocacy and involvements from the LUG communities in India and elsewhere. After all, this crowd doesn't need to be "educated" on the merits of FOSS, CC, etc.
cheers, Sameer
On Monday 20 Oct 2008 23:25, Sameer Verma wrote:
Hi Saswata,
The only thing I know of in the near future is the Give one Get one program that will begin on Nov 17 via Amazon (http://amazon.com/xo). This is going to be a US only deal at first but there are plans to take this to Europe and Asia.
Will the next version ship with linux? or a mangled version of doze ?
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:49 PM, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Monday 20 Oct 2008 23:25, Sameer Verma wrote:
Hi Saswata,
The only thing I know of in the near future is the Give one Get one program that will begin on Nov 17 via Amazon (http://amazon.com/xo). This is going to be a US only deal at first but there are plans to take this to Europe and Asia.
Will the next version ship with linux? or a mangled version of doze ?
--
They are all shipping with a version of Fedora (v9). No versions exist in the wild with Windows XP Unlimited Potential (XP for 3rd worlders...wonder whose potential they refer to?) except for a batch of XOs being piloted by Microsoft in Peru. The XP versions do not have Sugar or mesh networking. The Give 1 Get 1 machines that will ship in Nov via Amazon will be Linux only. You can boot the XO into a Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian or Gentoo, etc. build by using a SD card with an alternative build. This will give you XFCE or GNOME on the XO. The Windows versions are only available from MSFT.
All this is of course second hand info because I haven't seen the Windows XP version (a select few at OLPC have). I tend not to worry about stuff I can't get my hands into :-)
cheers, Sameer
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) dineshah@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Sameer,
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Sameer Verma sverma@sfsu.edu wrote:
Hello Linuxers,
I am visiting from San Francisco on vacation. I have been working with the One Laptop per Child project in volunteer capacity for a few years now. I organize and host meetings for the OLPC San Francisco group. Most of my research revolves around FOSS as innovation, and sustainable IT infrastructures. Projects I've worked with: Ubuntu, Fedora, Asterisk, OpenMoko, Maemo, Nocat, Jabber, Moodle, Drupal, etc.
It's nice to know about your contributions in FOSS.
I was referred to this group by someone, so this is a shot in the dark :-) I am not sure if any of you are involved in OLPC efforts both in India and worldwide. Here are a few basic facts: The OLPC project is based largely on Fedora (7 and 9) and runs on XO laptops that are powered by a 433MHz x86 Geode processor with 256 MB RAM. The laptop itself consumes a max of 8 watts. There are approx 600,000 OLPC XO laptops in the field with children worldwide - the next generation - with 55,000 laptops shipping out each month. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? ;-)
We as group is not directly involved with OLPC. However, many members of the list may have worked on OLPC or other similar project. Many more would be interested in knowing more and ways to get involved.
I will be in Mumbai until the 26th. If there is any interest, I'd be happy to meet/present on the project, its approach, the role of FOSS, etc. Ping me on or offlist. I'm also copying Amit Gogna of Reliance who has worked with this project in India and has been instrumental in the first pilot study. Maybe some of you can connect with him.
We just yesterday held a ILUG-Bom meet @ Powai. Next is scheduled either on 16th or 23rd Nov. However, we can have BoF like session at the venue of your choice before your departure and all interested people can participate.
And Hello to Amit. I hope you are on the list?
cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
Will be happy to meet in BoF and learn more about OLPC and accessible computing. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Bob Hope - "A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live."
Hi Dinesh,
My schedule is filling up quickly, but we could meet up for an informal BoF on Wednesday or Friday...maybe even Saturday. I am located in Santa Cruz and my geography of Mumbai is rather poor, so one of you guys will have to arrange for a location.
I have a meeting with Amit on Thursday, so I'll work on getting something going between the lug and their efforts.
cheers, Sameer
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