[Community-news] OLPC News (2006-11-25)

[Walter Bender]

1. Antonio Battro, David Cavallo, and Nicholas spent two days in Argentina
working closely with education minister Daniel Filmus, and Alejandro
Piscitelli and Laura Serra of educ.ar, the independent government
organization coordinating OLPC activities.

2. Nicholas and David spent Friday in São Paulo, to meet with President
Lula. Rodrigo Mesquita, to whom we owe our presence in Brazil, organized
and attended the meeting. Lula publicly reaffirmed Brazil’s commitment to
one laptop per child. He expressed a deep connection to those in Brazil
that lack opportunity, his belief in the children, and his faith in the
importance of connected laptops available to all.

3. Audrey Choi has joined OLPC to work with Nicholas on various
international development issues. Audrey is based in New York City and will
work closely with the UN and UN Ambassadors on “country twining”, among
other things.

4. Display: Fitness-of-use testing was conducted this week. We are studying
the acceptance criteria and exploring what cost savings can be achieved by
so doing.

5. Early estimates on UV lifetime of the LCD are encouraging and we are now
more confident that our target of 22K-hour lifetime can be achieved even
under harsh conditions, such as the Libyan desert.

6. With B1 machines in hand, the software team has begun a regiment of
measuring subsystem performance and exercising aspects of the user
interface. We are learning a great deal: this will be reflected in new
system images in the coming weeks.

-walter

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