School Server Architect

[John Watlington]

I'm extremely pleased to announce that Martin Langhoff will be  
joining OLPC,
taking the position of School Server Architect, starting officially  
around March 15th.

Martin is currently one of the lead developers of Moodle --- a FOSS  
Course
Management System for online learning (http://moodle.org/), although  
he has
contributed to a number of other FOSS projects.   Most of his last 10  
years of
work is well indexed by Google.   Interesting keywords to try include  
mod_perl,
GIT, Midgard, Arch (or GNU Arch), Moodle, OSCOM, metadata, dublin core,
performance, Eduforge, Elgg, e-Prints, Mahara, PostgreSQL, Debian,  
TWIG, Ubuntu.

He will continue to reside in New Zealand.   He's fluent in English  
and Spanish,
and can speak some Portuguese, Catalan, Italian and German.

I will continue to work on the School Server, but will increasingly  
focus on the
hardware, as we renew our efforts to provide low power,  
environmentally robust
servers for rural schools.   It is also time to begin work on the  
next generation of
laptop hardware.

John Watlington
Hardware Architect