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8.5 GB of Free, CC-Licensed Samples from the OLPC Project, and OLPC Music Tools

A classmate PC, powered by Intel, is a small, mobile learning assistant and educational solution that Intel specially developed for students in emerging markets.

Hardware of the OLPC seems very robust and well designed. Software seems to sucks.

Ouch. Les bouttons du OLPC sont les boutons de la PSP de Sony… Conditionnement marketing ? ou événement de la pop culture ? Est-ce que l'OLPC a obtenu une license pour ? Ah non Vieille photo surement, donc bien un phénomène de la pop culture. need new graphics for right-hand game buttons Egalement dans ce mail

Some Sony people stopped by the OLPC booth and mentioned that the Sony game controller labels the OLPC beta unit was using might cause some problems if Sony's legal department ever found out about it (which they will, if they haven't already). It's extremely an extremely proprietary trademark, like the Nike "swoosh" logo. Somebody from OLPC said that was a known issue but was ok because it was going to change and the current laptop was not for commercial production.

The NiMH batteries cannot be charged above about 45 degrees C.

Problème dans les régions chaudes du monde ? Et quand l'ordinateur est hors d'usage, quel est le programme pour le changer, le réparer, et ne pas avoir la batterie dans la nature ?

one laptop per child

The software is far from finished. An early version of the GUI and window manager are available, and a few small demo applications: chat, video, two games, and a web browser, and that's about it! The plan is to write all applications in Python (except for the web browser), and a "view source" button should show the Python source for the currently running application. In the tradition of Smalltalk (Alan Kay is on the OLPC board, and has endorsed the project's use of Python) the user should be able to edit any part of a "live" aplication and see the effects of the change immediately in the application's behavior. (A versioned document store will make it possible to roll back disastrous changes.) This is where Krstic wants my help: he hopes I can work magic and implement this feature for Python. I got started right away during the conference, with a reimplementation of python's reload() function that can patch classes and functions in place. Even this small component still has a long way to go; a checkpoint of the work in progress is checked into subversion as part of the Py3k standard library. That's not where the rest of my OLPC work will show up; they use GIT for source control, so I will get to learn that.