A moment from LCA2008 [LWN.net]
The OLPC project brought several dozen machines to the conference to be handed out, at random, to attendees who would promise to either do something amazing with them or give them to somebody else who would.
(tags: xo-laptop open-source olpc linux)
Monthly Archives: January 2008
links for 2008-01-31
January 31, 2008 – 01:29
links for 2008-01-30
January 30, 2008 – 01:28
HP debuts Linux-based thin client
A new thin-client that requires more than a thin amount of cash, $450.
(tags: hp linux open-source education)
links for 2008-01-24
January 24, 2008 – 01:31
Linux.com :: OLPC looks ahead with optimism
OLPC XO laptop update from COO Walter Bender.
(tags: open-source laptop linux olpc xo-laptop)
links for 2008-01-23
January 23, 2008 – 01:30
Oakland University Choose Ubuntu | Ubuntu
“The thin client technology allows users to run most of these applications from their laptop environment of choice and that was a huge turning point at the school, Simon said.”
(tags: open-source ubuntu education via:sogrady case-study)
Ubuntu supports technology-enabled teaching at The Johns Hopkins University | Ubuntu
“With BigBoard software running on an [...]
links for 2008-01-20
January 20, 2008 – 01:22
College students design Linux-based stethoscope
This could also be done using the XO laptop to monitor the stethoscope, making this one of the many ways in which the XO could be used to provide new ways to collect and assess data in the developing world.
(tags: open-source xo-lapop)
Stefano’s Linotype » Blog Archive » Why Sun bought MySQL
Insightful [...]
links for 2008-01-18
January 18, 2008 – 01:23
Funtoo by Daniel Robbins: A tale of two cultures…
This is a *very* insightful post on the problems of building and maintaining an open-source community, in this case that of the Gentoo Linux distribution. One hopes that those in a position to bring Gentoo back on track , the Genoo developers, read this p
(tags: open-source open-source-governance [...]
XO Weekend
January 17, 2008 – 23:37
[First published at GOTOXO as XO Weekend on January 17, 2008.]
I just got the following email from Robert Bolgar, father of the Brothers Bolgar, Josh and Zander:
Subject: XO Weekend
Hi David,
How is your schedule this Sunday for continued XO teaching? If you are busy, no prob. Josh will study more for midterms.
Thanks,
Robert
Here is my [...]
links for 2008-01-17
January 17, 2008 – 01:27
Jonathan Schwartz’s Blog: Helping Dolphins Fly
Interesting. One commercial software firm, Sun, is buying another, MySQL AB. Let’s hope Sun learns more about open-source governance from MySQL than MySQL does from Sun.
(tags: mysql sun database)
BlueSky – Incubator Wiki
My guess is that this is first e-learning solution project to be accepted by Apache Software Foundation. A [...]
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