One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Information

Many people had questions about OLPC at the meetup this evening and I fear I did a poor job answering.

Ivan Krstic gave a keynote at PyCon 2007 which I should have the video up for in a few days.
He gave another talk at Google two months later, and thankfully their video is up:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4285568518538296189&q=Ivan+Krstic+OLPC&total=2&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

You might recognize the person doing the introduction.

No description I can give is better than that video, so please take the time to watch it.
After that, if this sounds like something you are interested in being a part of please take a  look at the following sites:

http://laptop.org/
http://wiki.laptop.org/
http://dev.laptop.org/

The project needs help on just about every level.
There are open tickets at http://dev.laptop.org/ for documentation, translation, python programming, c kernel programming, UI work, and of course bugs.
There is a special section of bugs for people who are not similar with the system but want to help out:
http://dev.laptop.org/query?status=new&keywords=%7Esugar-love&order=priority

These are bugs in sugar which are already triaged which good instructions on how to fix them in most cases and can be fixed with the LiveCD.

The CD's that were available are the LiveCD from here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveCd in case you didn't get one.

There are other ways to check out the XO and do development but the LiveCD is the easiest.
Here is a good link for other forms of emulation:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software

Because Sugar (the core interface) is GTK+ python based, you can run it and do development for it anywhere those packages are available (Mac, Linux, win32).
Linux is the easiest and best documented.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Instructions
http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/02/23/building-the-xo-introducing-sugar/

    -Doug