Inside One Laptop per Child: Episode 02
by Julie Bryce
Filmed and edited by Simple Coat Productions.
Episode 02 of this series documenting the One Laptop per Child project focuses on the activities built for the laptop. Activities, not applications, since the machine is designed for children and applications is a decidedly adult word.
Also in this episode, meet more of the faces behind the project and hear more from CTO Mary Lou Jepsen and Red Hat team lead Chris Blizzard.
Have questions you’d like answered about the project? Or an idea for a future episode? Leave us a comment–let us know what you want to see.
Download this video: [ogg]
Other related videos: Inside One Laptop per Child, episode 01.
April 26th, 2007 at 6:13 am
This video is much less rock star and MTV cribbs than the first one – ‘J5 BUILD MASTA COMING ATCHA’.
April 26th, 2007 at 9:20 am
I have a question…. at the other end of the product lifecycle, do you have anything planned for recovery of the hardware for proper disposal/recycling? Otherwise this could become a blot on the landscape in ten or so years – hundreds of thousands of these laptops, broken or worn out, piled up in scrap heaps. In spite of that, I think what you’re doing is awesome, keep up the good work!
April 26th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Hi, and thanks for the very interesting articles. I’ve mirrored both OLPC videos (Ogg Theora) on my webspace: http://mirror.thecodergeek.com/olpc/
April 27th, 2007 at 3:01 am
I’m really impressed with this project. It makes me happy! Good work!
April 28th, 2007 at 2:24 am
Hey.. great work… keep it up..
April 30th, 2007 at 6:19 am
It would be cool to see something about the wifi networking. How well does the Internet bridging work etc… Btw what were the antennas for? Can you connect them to XO’s and connect to more distant kids?
June 6th, 2007 at 12:38 am
Really it will hit market on planet.
Will Become “TOP OF THE WORLD”
Now each child will breath Open Source, without paying anything to anyone for licence.
specially thanks to REDHAT for this big jump in Children environment.
Thanks.
With Warm Regards,
Ashish Barot.
+91-9825250897
India.
June 28th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
I want one, please!
This is relevant to a lot more places than the developing world.
This will change the world.
Keep up the good work, I am off to donate some money.
Worik
July 14th, 2007 at 10:25 am
Perhaps this is answered somewhere else… How will the support structure for this (very imaginative) platform be organized? Hardware replacements, OS support. Will there be local people in these areas who can source broken screen hinges, cracked displays, etc? How much will these parts cost?
November 30th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Will the OS be available for download, and be usable on other computers other than the XO laptop?
January 5th, 2008 at 2:33 am
It’s very nice video. How tech. is growing day by day.
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:07 am
Keep up the good work.
(And don’t worry about the proprietaries!)
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:27 am
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August 3rd, 2008 at 9:22 pm
I would like to know more about the “systrans tools” referred to in video two. In my experience these don’t work very well yet. Could they really enable good communication between kids in, say, Brazil and China? I also wonder whether there are any ideas at present for supporting any kind of international auxiliary language via the laptops. Thanks in advance.