$100 laptop production begins - targeting October 2007

BBC has the news @

- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6908946.stm

Interestingly (and no surprise :) "There's still some software to write"  
...

/Klaus

Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
> BBC has the news @
>
> - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6908946.stm
>
> Interestingly (and no surprise :) "There's still some software to write"

Wish they would actually do that instead of college level research
hacking...

Michael

Le Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:33:20 +0200, Klaus D. Witzel a écrit:

> BBC has the news @
>
> - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6908946.stm
>
> Interestingly (and no surprise :) "There's still some software to write"  

As a high school math teacher and part time programmer I contacted olpc
team to see if there were any interst on interactive geometry. From the
mostly empty feedback I got I can only conlcude there are no interest in
this particular field, although interactive geometry is part of the
constructivist paradigm through micro-world implementation.

Now I see there are interest around writing specific games for OLPC, kind
of behaviourist stuff...
The project claims to be an educative project and not a laptop one, but it
really looks like a geeks driven project without much knowledge about
education, teaching, ICT in education and scientific experimentation in
teaching system.

Hilaire

On Jul 23, 2007, at 16:50 , Hilaire Fernandes wrote:

OLPC itself is only working on the base system and core activities.  
But anyone can create software for it. They will also host the  
project for you if needed. There is a page on the wiki where you can  
register your activity bundle, this page is linked from the laptop,  
it takes only one click to install. So everybody can easily provide  
software for the OLPC machine. And I posted an outline how to write  
an OLPC activity in Squeak, as you know.

OLPC is only a handful of people. Don't expect them to do everything.  
Do it yourself.

- Bert -

  Hilaire,

  Empty response is to be blamed.  I'm sorry, Hilaire.  We would like
to include as many useful as *possible*, but it is a hard problem.
One idea is to make a separate .image (and activity) that contains
"advanced" stuff like DrGEO II, etc. and possibly usable Smalltalk
development environment...

-- Yoshiki

Hi Hilaire,

on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:50:29 +0200, you wrote:
I went to Potsdam recently and listened to Bert's presentation. The main  
part addressed by XO-in-practice is electronic material (e-school books,  
so to speak). When some NGO donated hardcopies in the past it can now  
donate XO's and e-material. This [e-material] is served from a central  
location and whenever the kids walk from home closer to school an  
automated update takes place.

So we can assume that teaching material is part of the system. But we  
can't say what that material is about. From my experience with  
pan-european sites there is quite a difference in terms of culture  
(conventions, doctrine, you name it). Perhaps it is so that the XO  
material differs from nation/region to nation/region; I wouldn't be  
surprised.

<sarcasm> imagine the XO will be given to kids in a nation where a large  
fraction of the population does not believe in Darwin's evolution; what  
can it be that is then found by their kids on the XO</sarcasm>

/Klaus

> Hilaire
>
>
>

Le Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:14:30 +0200, Bert Freudenberg a écrit:

> Do it yourself.

Indeed Bert, this is one dimension of free software, but this is
not the only one, otherwise free softare will not work.  There is also
mutual interest (well it probably counts for 80%).

So this is why after I saw the lack of interest in interactive geometry, I
decided to not spend my free time on building an activity which could
eventually be used, but more likely not used at all (and not to say the
specific nature of activity not portable to other architecture).

So indeed Bert, DIY , but this is a two ways stence.

Best