[vox] OLPC SF Community Summit 2013

[Brian Lavender]

ugh, can't make it. I am going camping that weekend. I will be swimming
with the fishes and spearing one if I can in Fort Bragg.

So what is the deal with the mesh networking? I looked at the specs for
the X0-4_Touch and it looks like all it supports is ad-hoc.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-4_Touch

It looks like the networking page is a little old, but I agree with the
idea "could connect to other laptops in their vicinity regardless of
the presence or not of connectivity infrastructure"
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wireless

And, I see that the 802.11s is now standardized by the IEEE.
At least according to this website
http://open80211s.org/open80211s/

Mesh seems very key to OLPC. I think it is the next
revolution in communications even outside of OLPC.



On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:10:45PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote:
>    Greetings and a Happy GNU 30 to you!
>    OLPC San Francisco will be hosting its fifth community summit this
>    year. Although called OLPC *SF* Community Summit, the event attracts
>    people from all over the world. We see representation from places like
>    Mongolia, Uruguay, Chad, India, Jamaica, Tuva and the Marshall Islands.
>    3 million laptops running Fedora and Sugar and GNOME! (and, just to be
>    clear, *none* have actually shipped with Windows. Ever.)
>    The newest in the line of XO laptops is the XO-4 Touch, running a
>    multi-core ARM processor from Marvell. The touch isn't capacitive or
>    resistive, but is implemented using a light grid! We have 5 year olds
>    who can modify "Pong" written in Python. We have the first gen kids
>    showing up at Google Summer of Code. More cool and good stuff at the
>    event.
>    The event will be from Oct 18-20. The schedule will be filling up
>    shortly at [1]http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2013/schedule
>    Registration is open
>    [2]http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2013/registration
>    We hope to see you at the summit!
>    cheers,
>    Sameer
>    --
>    Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>    Professor, Information Systems
>    San Francisco State University
>    [3]http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>    [4]http://commons.sfsu.edu/
>    [5]http://olpcsf.org/
>    [6]http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/
> 
> References
> 
>    1. http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2013/schedule
>    2. http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2013/registration
>    3. http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>    4. http://commons.sfsu.edu/
>    5. http://olpcsf.org/
>    6. http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/

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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture