[Community-news] OLPC News (2006-06-24)

[Walter Bender]

1. Everything is on track for Barry Vercoe's keynote at WorldComp'06, Las 
Vegas  Monday. There will be five laptops distributed aesthetically on the 
very large stage of Lance Burton Theater, and a sixth laptop behind the 
audience, all playing music collaboratively. There'll be ethnic 
variety—Brazilian music, Chinese music, Indian music—even a simulated 
call-and-response duet between two villages.  Visualize a bare stage, each 
laptop sitting alone on a card table, with a large EV1 loudspeaker behind 
it. This first public rollout of the laptop promises to be a blast. Jim 
Gettys and Michail Bletsas will form a panel following. 

2. WiFi became operational on the developer boards being used for Barry's 
demo in Las Vegas next week. With the help of Marcelo Tosatti and Dan 
Williams, Michail tested both Infrastructure and Ad-Hoc modes on the Alpha 
boards and confirmed  WiFi operation. Marcelo's version of the Marvell 
driver was used, since it is more up to speed with the current Fedora 
version used internally at OLPC.

-walter

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