Presentation at Bay Area Linux Users Group, San Francisco, CA

1. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor Information Systems Department San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132 USA Creative commons license http://creativecommons.org/ One Laptop per Child Project: Plan, Direction, Update, Participation Presentation: Bay Area Linux Users Group ( http://www.balug.org/ ) hello! Unless noted otherwise

2. Multiple hats... Disclaimer: I do not work for OLPC. I am only a volunteer!

3. Somebody is finally thinking of the children! To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. — OLPC Mission Statement, It's an education project, not a laptop project. — Nicholas Negroponte

4. in the beginning...

5. ooh! laptop! (July 2007)

6. Give 1 Get 1 – Nov 2007

7. Next thing I know... De facto organizer for olpc-sf http://tinyurl.com/olpcsf

8. Where no one has gone [computing] before...

9. School Galadima, Abuja City, Nigeria See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Galadima

10. Samkha village located in the suburbs of northern Thailand See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Thailand/Ban_Samkha

11. Khairat school is India's pilot site. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India

12. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ulaanbaatar

13. Ethopia http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/10/olpc-ethiopia-updates/

14. Ghana http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/2921143251/

15. Cameroon http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/3110907018/in/set-72157611290673682/

16. Afghanistan refugee camp, Pakistan http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Pakistan/Atlas_School

17. Colombia http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Colombia

18. Peru http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Peru

19. Rwanda http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rwanda

20. Iraq http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Iraq

21. Haiti http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Haiti

22. Solomon Islands http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Solomon_Islands

23. Nepal http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Nepal

24. Uruguay: Every primary school child has an XO. http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com/

25. postage stamps too!

26. 1.6 million XO laptops and counting See Google Maps Deployments worldwide Also see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops

28. Line: Cute/rugged laptop...

29. Sinker: Smart kids everywhere! My involvement?

30. OLPC San Francisco Bay Area http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf http://tinyurl.com/olpcsf

33. India (Humaira Mahi & Sameer Verma, SFSU)

34. Jamaica (Sameer Verma & Univ. of the West Indies)

35. Madagascar (June Kleider, XO-ology)

36. Senegal (Drew & Lick-Wilmerding Schools)

37. South Africa (EduWeavers)

38. San Francisco (Starr King Elementary)

39. Uganda (UC Berkeley)

41. OLPC-SF resident expert

42. A glimpse... Deployments

43. India http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Khairat_school

44. Resident artist!

45. Khairat school is India's first pilot site. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India

46. Khairat school is India's pilot site. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India

47. Khairat Photos http://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40064/

49. District: Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh

50. Railway Station: Shahganj

52. Children: 1087

53. Teachers: 11

54. Internet: none

55. Computers: none http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bhagmalpur

56. What's a laptop?

57. Under a tree...

58. Bhagmalpur photos Bhagmalpur School http://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40063/ Bhagmalpur Village http://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40075/

59. Jamaica

65. Maroantsetra, Madagascar

67. Kandahar, Afghanistan

69. Keur Sadaro, Senegal http://www.extrasleepy.com/keursadaro.html

70. OLPC Headquarters 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

71. Little green machines...

72. Cost Electricity Networks Content Languages Pedagogy Age Security Theft Appropriateness ... The challenges

73. Cost US $140 at the factory My Lenovo Thinkpad cost me > US $2500

74. Electricity Non-traditional sources...

75. Yo Yo Charger http://www.potenco.com/products

76. Hand Crank Charger http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/Hand_Crank

77. Pedal power OLPC Afghanistan http://www.olpc.af/images/HPM/dscf1324.jpg

78. Solar Panel http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Product_News#Solar_Panels 5 Watt/14Volt panel

79. Moo power... http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cow_Power

80. Networks Offline Moodle Rise of the Sneakernets WWWOFFLE

81. Content Open content standards (SCORM, IMS-CP) Creative Commons Offline Wikipedia 1.6 million books from the Internet Archive

83. Languages Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Aymara, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Basque, Bengali, Bengali (India), Bislama, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, English (South African), English (US), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, French (Canada), Friulian, Fula, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kreyol, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Marovo, Mongolian, Nauruan, Nepali, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Papiamento, Papua New Guinea Pidgin (Tok Pisin), Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Solomon Islands Pidgin, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Templates, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Walloon, Wolof, Yoruba... Approx. 96+ languages Tutorial: http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452 Translate: http://translate.sugarlabs.org/

84. Pedagogy http://www.sugarlabs.org/

86. No vendor lock-in on formats

87. No royalties on redistribution

88. No discrimination based on fields of endeavor

89. Scalable global model for software and content

96. Principle of "learning through doing"

98. Seymour Papert (constructionism)

99. Lego Mindstroms

100. school...to go

101. Educational device or trojan horse? Surprise! Its a REAL computer. It can do REAL computer things!

103. Healthcare monitor (O 2 , pulse sensors)

105. Photos, birth/death records.

106. OLPC XO-1 Speaker Rotate screen Keyboard Mouse pad Microphone Antenna Camera Gamepad Power Battery USB

107. XO 1: /proc/cpuinfo

108. XO 1 /proc/meminfo

109. OLPC XO-1.5 Speaker Rotate screen Keyboard Mouse pad Microphone Antenna Camera Gamepad Power Battery USB Note: XO-1 and XO-1.5 are physically identical

111. CPU clock speed: 400 MHz (1.5 W) to 1GHz (5 W), variable.

112. An Intel-compatible instruction set (including MMX, SSE, SSE2 & SSE3)

113. Companion chips: Via VX855 provides memory interface, a 3D graphics engine, an HD video decoder, USB, SDIO, and other system interface and management functions

116. One externally accessible SD card slot as in the original XO.

117. XS: OLPC School Server The Internet in a Box unsung hero too!

118. School environment Manage content Manage access Manage assessment

119. What does the XS look like? Fantasy View

120. What does the XS look like? Reality View http://www.flickr.com/photos/popcorncx/149706221/

122. Has the oomph needed

125. DHCP

126. NAT/Masquerading

130. Backup files

135. Mesh (IEEE 802.11s draft)

136. Infrastructure (Access Point)

139. This XO can assign other teachers, course creators, and other such roles

143. links via Apache (add Apache config)

146. Layout (Access Points)

148. Requires a SD card (4GB and class 6)

149. External USB hard drive (needs own power)

150. USB-Ethernet for backhaul.

154. at least 2GB disk storage per laptop.

155. Something in the mini ITX form-factor works well.

156. Fanless units are better

158. 2 to 4GB RAM

159. at least 2GB disk storage per laptop.

160. This type of a machine usually works in environments with good power resources. http://www.flickr.com/photos/popcorncx/149706221/

162. 4 to 16GB RAM

163. at least 2GB disk storage per laptop.

164. Data center hosting is also an option. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamisonjudd/2433102356/

165. School Server

166. Don't have an XO but still want the goods?

168. Sugar on Debian, Fedora, Gentoo

170. Qemu

172. Deliver Sugar via LTSP http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads

176. Propose

177. Other contributors

178. Audience or impact

179. Brief description

180. Relevant experience

181. Contact information

182. # of XOs needed, and their use Apply at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors

187. Made with the free stuff Its your intellectual property. Keep it open. Vote with your fingers. Use open formats! http://www.openoffice.org/