Hi Brian,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the write-up.<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Brian Lavender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@brie.com">brian@brie.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I went to the OLPC conference and I really enjoyed it. The great thing<br>
about this conference is that were dedicated OLPC attendees from around<br>
the world, technical and those doing deployments. Without a doubt, there<br>
is great opportunity with OLPC and with that a lot of work to do. But,<br>
at the same time, a lot of work has been done (shoulders of giants to<br>
build upon). The conference had a great "grass roots" feel. Numerous<br>
people contributed to make it happen, and there was no overlooming<br>
corporate twist you sometimes feel at conferences.<br>
<br>
I still have yet to write an application for OLPC. I would say that was a<br>
shortfall of the programming session I went to. There were links to howtos<br>
and online videos, but I would have really liked to have seen "hello<br>
world". I did do a little digging afterwards, and most coding is done in<br>
Python and it appears that GTK works under the hood using PyGTK. I hope to<br>
soon write a simple app and run it on OLPC. There is also the integration<br>
aspect of OLPC. OLPC has what is called Sugar on a Stick. If you download<br>
the iso image for OLPC, you can burn create a bootable USB stick using<br>
the Fedora Live USB creator.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/" target="_blank">https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/</a><br>
<br>
I am running Ubuntu which has a "Startup Disk Creator" similar to<br>
Fedora's. Somehow, I thought I might be able to create sugar on a<br>
stick using Ubuntu's program, but this was not the case. So, someone<br>
created me a stick. But, once again, how was I to code a program with<br>
OLPC booted on my system. Yet, another neighor of mine mentioned that I<br>
could install Sugar in my Ubuntu. A few moments later, I installed it,<br>
but there seemed to be problems. I am not sure what they were, so I<br>
am still have yet to write "Hello World". Even another Sugar developer<br>
lamented that some of the integration was a ways off and work could be<br>
done in this area. I hope to write a "Hello World" soon as there seems<br>
to be a number of resources on the Wiki. Not to mention, I would like<br>
to see TuxPaint on OLPC. The thing with OLPC seems that packages<br>
contain the all the dependencies, so this may be a challenge.<br>
<br>
I also learned about libusb while listening to a USB temperature probe<br>
that is being used with OLPC in Uganda. I had not realized that USB<br>
support in Linux had been moved to user space. OLPC uses the Linux kernel.<br>
Some day down the road, I hope to check it out in detail. I'll add it<br>
to the wishlist. At the same time, OLPC implements a security model in<br>
case your laptop is stolen that I would like to dig into and see how it<br>
is implemented.<br>
<br>
It was also interesting to hear those who were doing implementations of<br>
OLPC at schools and their experiences. One of the people who has worked in<br>
Haiti told me teachers feared the laptops would replace them. I responded<br>
that that would be quite a feat deserving the Loebner prize. And, we<br>
also heard some details about an implementation in Birmingham, AL and<br>
her experiences and struggle to make OLPC a success.<br>
<br>
There was much more that I could recount upon. Those who didn't go, you<br>
missed out!<br>
<br>
brian<br>
<br>
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 09:41:32PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote:<br>
> We have had an incredible two days thus far at the OLPC San Francisco<br>
> Community Summit 2010. Mayor Gavin Newsom declared October 23, 2010 as<br>
> One Laptop per Child Day in San Francisco!<br>
> <a href="http://blog.laptop.org/2010/10/22/october-23-is-olpc-day-in-sf/" target="_blank">http://blog.laptop.org/2010/10/22/october-23-is-olpc-day-in-sf/</a><br>
><br>
> Here are some photos from the events and sessions.<br>
> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157625222079022/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157625222079022/</a> and<br>
> <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tuxwingsgroup/Olpc#" target="_blank">http://picasaweb.google.com/tuxwingsgroup/Olpc#</a><br>
><br>
> You can join us online tomorrow at 11:30AM and 13:45pm Pacific.<br>
> <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/olpcsf-community-summit-2010" target="_blank">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/olpcsf-community-summit-2010</a><br>
><br>
> cheers,<br>
> Sameer<br>
> --<br>
> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<br>
> Associate Professor, Information Systems<br>
> Director, Campus Business Solutions<br>
> San Francisco State University<br>
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