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OLPC Origin: Bittersweet Success and Future of the XO Laptop [Olpc Secret Origins]

http://gizmodo.com/ 5043089/ olpc-origin-bittersweet-success-and-future-of-the-x…

When I met with Nicholas Negroponte not long ago, he laughed at the coverage he'd received through the past few years, including our own portrayal of Intel chairman Craig Barrett and him as Beavis and Butthead. Far more hurtful have been the admonitions of his own former staffers who feel he has mismanaged the OLPC project. ...

1 day ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide

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   Ukrainian School Teachers against Computer Science

   http://profy.com/ 2008/ 08/ 29/ ukrainian-school-teachers-against-computer-scien…

   Today we have a very peculiar piece of news from Ukraine - both funny and at the same time very sad. Same as the rest of the world Ukraine is getting ready for the back to school day. In the meanwhile teachers in the region of Dnepropetrovsk participated in a conference of educators on Wednesday.

   4 hours ago by ilya78k2 in Profy - Technology News and Commentary · Authority: 623
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   Squeak NOS on the OLPC

   http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/ blog/ blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=…

   Serge notes that the OLPC can run with Squeak NOS: Technorati Tags: olpc, squeak, smalltalk

   18 hours ago in Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants · Authority: 92
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   OLPC Origin: Bittersweet Success and Future of the XO Laptop

   http://www.gizmodo.com.au/ 2008/ 08/ olpc_origin_bittersweet_success_and_future_…

   When I met with Nicholas Negroponte not long ago, he laughed at the coverage he'd received through the past few years, including our own portrayal of Intel chairman Craig Barrett and him as Beavis and Butthead. Far more hurtful have been the admonitions of his own former staffers who feel he has mismanaged the OLPC project.

   20 hours ago by gizmodoau in Gizmodo Australia, the Gadget Guide · Authority: 732
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   OLPC Origin: Bittersweet Success and Future of the XO Laptop [Olpc Secret Origins]

   http://gizmodo.com/ 5043089/ olpc-origin-bittersweet-success-and-future-of-the-x…

   When I met with Nicholas Negroponte not long ago, he laughed at the coverage he'd received through the past few years, including our own portrayal of Intel chairman Craig Barrett and him as Beavis and Butthead. Far more hurtful have been the admonitions of his own former staffers who feel he has mismanaged the OLPC project.

   23 hours ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide · Authority: 20,988
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   Sugared openSUSE - tour

   http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/ ~cyberorg/ 2008/ 08/ 28/ sugared-opensuse-tour/

   Last couple of days Cristian Rodriguez and I have been working on getting OLPC XO’s Sugar interface on openSUSE. Here are the results: Home Browser using Hulahop, gecko/pyxpcom engine. List of “Activities” - Sugar applications. Write Activity - Sugared up Abiword Color Activity Patched for logout Available via 1-click for openSUSE 11.0.

   1 day ago in CyberOrg · Authority: 35
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   An answer to Walter Bender's question 22

   http://www.olpcnews.com/ use_cases/ education/ an_answer_to_question_22.html

   Walter Bender's question 22: What “shoulders of giants” should we stand on? What is it that children should learn? Are there any universals? How do children decide whom and what to believe? Alan Kay I've been providing what I think is a good answer to these questions for some time now but often the response is muted and contradictory.

   1 day ago by Wayanvota in One Laptop Per Child News · Authority: 471
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   OLPC shipped in Niue

   http://www.coffee.geek.nz/ content/ 080828/ olpc-shipped-niue

   From Pia Waugh's blog: http://pipka.org/blog/2008/08/16/olpc-in-niue/ In late July I was very privileged to help roll out the world’s first 100% saturation of OLPC XOs to the country of Niue, in the Pacific near New Zealand.

   1 day ago by taniwhaiti in coffee.geek.nz | Whoever dies with the most toys wins. · Authority: 39
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   The OLPC Physics Game Jam Wants You!

   http://www.olpcnews.com/ content/ games/ olpc_physics_games_jam_wants_you.html

   I received an invitation to a cool event the other day and thought this might be of interest to some of you since it looks like a fun way to spend a weekend: "Partly because we're starting to see the fruits of Box2D (an open source 2D physics engine) running on the XO and partly because we

   1 day ago by Wayanvota in One Laptop Per Child News · Authority: 471
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   OLPC Origins: US and Taiwan’s Hardware Lovechild

   http://maisonbisson.com/ blog/ post/ 12351/ olpc-origins-us-and-taiwans-hardware…

   OLPC Origins: US and Taiwan’s Hardware Lovechild A deeper than expected history of the OLPC’s development. Part two of a three part series.

   1 day ago in MaisonBisson.com · Authority: 98
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    August 27: Cyrus on Morning Edition (NPR)

    http://cyrusfarivar.com/ blog/ ?p=1691

    Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my piece on One Laptop Per Child is/was on Morning Edition today (August 27). It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams). New York - 5 am to 9 am Eastern - WNYC - 820 AM - www.wnyc.org Washington, DC - 5 am to 10 am Eastern -

    2 days ago by cfarivar in cyrusfarivar.com · Authority: 30

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