[Community-news] OLPC News (2006-04-29)

[Walter Bender]

29 April 2006

1. Human Power: Two groups have been designing human power options for 
OLPC. Eight approaches were reviewed over the past week.
2. Taiwan: Mark Foster notes several significant new milestones:
o The OLPC prototypes are now reliably booting Red Hat's standard Fedora 
Core 5 Linux distribution, including the full graphical user interface.
o The on-board wireless mesh network hardware has been tuned and 
validated, thanks to exemplary support by Marvell. OLPC prototypes are now 
802.11b/g network participants?they are successfully communicating with 
standard 802.11 access points.
3. Walter Bender has been engaging Larry Lessig in a discussion about 
developing strategies for leveraging the Creative Commons 
(http://creativecommons.org) in terms of both assembling a library of 
materials for the kids and putting together a collection of ?kid-readable? 
(they currently support ?human-readable?) summaries of their licenses.
4. The first of the languages from the Indian subcontinent, Bengali, made 
its appearance on the OLPC website, thanks to the efforts of Rajib Ghosh 
and Sunil Vemuri.

-walter
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Walter Bender
One Laptop per Child
http://laptop.org
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