[OLPC India] Gnunify '08 & the OLPC

[shirish]

forgot to close the tag, sorry

On Feb 13, 2008 12:10 PM, shirish <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>        There was an event called Gnunify '08 www.gnunify.in where
> Sayamindu also came. While I missed his presentation as there was
> quite a few parallel tracks we were able to meet the next day. I was
> pretty much intrigued on seeing the device & while we talked/chatted
> for about an hr. or so was left wanting for more. I'm sure there are
> many others like me who have bunch of questions for people who are
> working on it, also would have liked to play with the machine to know
> more about the features it has (both on the hardware as well as
> software) . I also saw that few people are also coming down to India
> to show/do a roadshow in India/to generate interest. I would also have
> loved to visit the school in Khairat but other compulsions (job) leave
> me with no way to go there :(
>
> Anyway here are the bunch of questions & statements I have after I
> have seen the device, I'm sure these are all basic questions & have
> been put up on the wiki as well but this needs to be put perhaps as
> printed material so people can have a look at it, some of them would
> be geeky & some general in nature :-
>
> 1. How do you guys propose to solve the service & support issues?
> End-of-life issues?
> 2. The interface is pretty unique as its aimed for little/small people
> & I like the idea of having mesh networks so children can gossip
> between themselves. But what about some nasty people  (bad people)
> coming in the mesh network ?
> 3. I'm sure there are many painting applications & stuff, could there
> be a 2-way communication to the openclipart.org project where they can
> download as well as upload stuff ( i.e. if net connectivity is
> possible). This would help feed each other.
> 4. Updates, how is that being handled? I come from Ubuntu/debian world
> where there is something called apt-zeroconf,
> http://trac.phidev.org/trac/wiki/AptZeroconf although haven't played
> it but it would be nice to know if something like that is being used?
> 5. (curious) As the interface seems to be new, there is possibility
> that there might have been whole lot of packages which were
> specifically built for OLPC as i new applications. If so, has there
> any effort to get them ported to Debian as well? (/curious)
> 6. OpenBIOS :- I heard it has something similar to the OpenBIOS,
> LinuxBIOS initiatives which have been taking place elsewhere.Anything
> on that would be nice.
> 7. The Open Graphics Project :- I'm sure most of the people know of
> the project. It has made some noise. AFAIK its not in the mass-market
> although there was some talk of having some development models made of
> that, have some people been playing with that? If yes, what has been
> the experience?
>
> That's all for now, I know I need to read a lot about OLPC ,  a whole
> lot of it may be wishful thinking or crystal-gazing or maybe just
> plain wrong.
>
> But still, good wishes for the project from my side. And if anybody is
> coming to Pune to showcase it/tell about it, please look me up :)
>
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>           Shirish Agarwal
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