[Community-news] OLPC news (2006-09-09)

[Walter Bender]

1. Aloizio Mercadante, the candidate for governor of Sao Paulo from 
President Lula's party, announced his intention to provide One Laptop per 
Child in the state, if elected.

2. Ivan Krstić will present our security model and strategy at a security 
conference in Malaysia to gather feedback from the security community, 
particularly about our intended use of IPv6 networking on the laptops.

3. After several minor iterations, the OLPC document format is close to 
stabilized, and the release of a Version 1 is expected shortly. The 
release will be largely or completely compatible with the upcoming 
WikiCreole specification, an attempt at a standard subset of wiki markup 
that wiki systems can support in addition to their native markup.

4. With LinuxBIOS' deployment came reports of problems booting certain 
A-Test boards. As a result of excellent detective work by Tom Sylla, 
Jordan Crouse, Ron Minnich, Richard Smith, and Chris Ball, the problem was 
localized to boards that have a particular vendor's DRAM—three vendor's 
DRAM are being qualified—that was slower than the DRAM used from the other 
vendors.

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