items tagged with OLPC
Outsider to lobby for OLPC Down Under
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-05-07 05:52:15
It's quite characteristic of the cultural cringe that prevails in Australia that a man who works in America, Barry Vercoe, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is coming to the country next week to lobby for the local branch of the One Laptop Per Child project.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-05-07 05:52:15
It's quite characteristic of the cultural cringe that prevails in Australia that a man who works in America, Barry Vercoe, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is coming to the country next week to lobby for the local branch of the One Laptop Per Child project.
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OLPC: one excuse per child
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-04-23 21:07:49
Nicholas Negroponte, the head of the One Laptop per Child project, is in the news again, this time trying to rationalise the appearance of Windows XP on the laptop manufactured by the project.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-04-23 21:07:49
Nicholas Negroponte, the head of the One Laptop per Child project, is in the news again, this time trying to rationalise the appearance of Windows XP on the laptop manufactured by the project.
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OLPC: one resignation per child
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-03-26 10:32:03
Nicholas Negroponte must be crying in his beer. The One Laptop Per Child project has hit yet another roadblock with the resignation of Ivan Krstic , the project's director of security architecture.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-03-26 10:32:03
Nicholas Negroponte must be crying in his beer. The One Laptop Per Child project has hit yet another roadblock with the resignation of Ivan Krstic , the project's director of security architecture.
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Not the OLPC: Sustainable computing for the masses
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-03-20 11:24:20
Stephen Dukker doesn't like to be described as a do-gooder; he's not comfortable with the label of humanitarian either. It just so happens that what he's involved in is bringing cheap computing to people - and helping a lot of others to make a decent living as well.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-03-20 11:24:20
Stephen Dukker doesn't like to be described as a do-gooder; he's not comfortable with the label of humanitarian either. It just so happens that what he's involved in is bringing cheap computing to people - and helping a lot of others to make a decent living as well.
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OLPC: one virus per child
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-03-12 03:34:05
It's taken a remarkably short time for the One Laptop Per Child project to change from positioning itself as the saviour of children in developing countries to becoming a toady for Microsoft.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-03-12 03:34:05
It's taken a remarkably short time for the One Laptop Per Child project to change from positioning itself as the saviour of children in developing countries to becoming a toady for Microsoft.
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The true cost of one laptop per child
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2008-02-24 04:23:17
Late last year Uruguay landed its first shipment of 100,000 units of the much lauded, sometimes criticised XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation. Buoyed by that success, Walter Bender, president software and content at OLPC effused over the next countries in line for the little green machine. The question is, however, can the likes of Peru, Mexico, Ethiopia, Haiti, Rwanda, Mongolia and a myriad of other impoverished countries stump up with the cash needed to join the OLPC bandwagon? The sums are not that difficult to do.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2008-02-24 04:23:17
Late last year Uruguay landed its first shipment of 100,000 units of the much lauded, sometimes criticised XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation. Buoyed by that success, Walter Bender, president software and content at OLPC effused over the next countries in line for the little green machine. The question is, however, can the likes of Peru, Mexico, Ethiopia, Haiti, Rwanda, Mongolia and a myriad of other impoverished countries stump up with the cash needed to join the OLPC bandwagon? The sums are not that difficult to do.
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OLPC: one bad idea per child
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-02-21 10:06:07
There are times when an issue can gnaw away at your internals to the extent that it starts bothering you. And you can't prevent feelings of guilt arising when you are constantly reminded about something or the other, something which you have and others, in distant lands, do not.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-02-21 10:06:07
There are times when an issue can gnaw away at your internals to the extent that it starts bothering you. And you can't prevent feelings of guilt arising when you are constantly reminded about something or the other, something which you have and others, in distant lands, do not.
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Open source software and the future of the world
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-02-05 08:35:45
Torvalds has been to Linux.conf.au and Torvalds has spoken. During a wide-ranging interview the Linux founder speculated on the future of hardware and the control that open source offers vendors. The ramifications of this are remarkable. Come hear the word of Torvalds.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-02-05 08:35:45
Torvalds has been to Linux.conf.au and Torvalds has spoken. During a wide-ranging interview the Linux founder speculated on the future of hardware and the control that open source offers vendors. The ramifications of this are remarkable. Come hear the word of Torvalds.
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