If people would like to help out or just have questions, please feel 
free to contact me (either at this address or [address removed]). I also 
hang out in #olpc as coderanger.

--Noah Kantrowitz

Doug Napoleone wrote:
> 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.goog... 
>
>
> 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.lapto...
> http://dev.laptop...
>
> The project needs help on just about every level.
> There are open tickets at http://dev.laptop... 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... 
>
>
> 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.lapto... 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.lapto...
>
> 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.lapto...
> http://wiki.lapto...
> http://www.redhat... 
>
>
>    -Doug
>