Since Joel receiving the One Laptop Per Child laptop at linux.conf.au last month, He has given a presentation at a LinuxSA meeting that kicked off a series of media interest.
In the Adelaide Sunday Mail dated 25/02/2007 there is a nice write up about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
Quote:
A LAPTOP computer set to revolutionise education world-wide is the prized possession of an Adelaide electrical engineering student.
University of Adelaide student Joel Stanley, 21, is one of only two Australians to own an early-model laptop from the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program.
The brainchild of US MIT Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte, the program aims to provide laptops to children in developing countries such as Brazil, China, Egypt, Thailand and South Africa at a cost of less than $127.
You can find the full article online titled "Laptop astounds student" were the quoted text came from.
Joel has been keeping a rough record of this, and in case anyone would like to follow along, you can find his online record here at Joel's One Laptop Per Child Media Snippets
This is old news and some of you already know about it, but it is worth the adding. I heard my first mention of Linux, and specifically Ubuntu, in a television show. In this episode the school has been receiving bomb threats. As Veronica is walking towards the school’s computer lab she hears two people arguing.
Quote:
Male voice: If you haven’t even tried Ubuntu how can you say you don’t like it? It had the 2.6 kernel and Gnome 2 on the day Warty Warthog was released.
Female voice:(who turns out to be Mac, the resident girl geek Veronica turns to for computer help): I’m happy with OS X. It’s got (something about all the awkgrep that I need) and I don’t have to worry about font de-uglification.
Well.. the annual Australian Linux Conference is over again for another year. As usual it was amazingly fantastic, with a broad range of talks and tutorials.
Bloggers and Flickr'ers have been asked to tag their uploads with either 'lca2007' or 'linux.conf.au', so searching on these in Google should enable you to get a taste of what th event was like.
One huge feature this year was that videos were taken of all of the talks.. some of these appeared on the website even before the conference itself actually finished. They can be found on the conference website here: http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Programme
Check them out.
Starting on the 29 October 2006 with the normal collection of coupons from the Advertiser / Sunday mail and redemed at BP and 'On the Go' service stations.
If you are a 7 day subscribers of The Advertiser and the Sunday Mail can secure their Ai2 Robot collection by providing their details on this page:
http://www.advertiser.com.au/competitions/ai2-robot.html
The Ai2 Robot web site:
http://www.microbric.com/ai2/page.php?sId=1
Programming Manual for the Ai2:
http://www.microbric.com/ai2/sitefiles/File/BricWorkshelp.pdf
Community based Ai2 sites:
http://community.mawsonlakes.org/lab/ai2/ (Thanks to Paul)
Howto: Install Bricworks under Ubuntu 6.06.1 / 6.10
What is a BarCamp?
BarCamp is an international network of unconferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies and social protocols.
BarCamp is 100% non-commercial, non-profit and community driven — no one is paid for their time, no one is charged to come and no profits are made.
A BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. If you want to attend, you are encouraged to give a presentation or a demo of some kind.
Who What Where When
Who? Anyone who is interested in technology, the Internet and several related topics, covered in an unconference style
What? A good opportunity for the many flavours of geeks in Adelaide to share ideas and projects. You don't have to contribute, you just have to be interested.
Where? Moana Pioneers Memorial Hall, Nashwauk Cres Moana SA 5169 Google Map. Other States involved are BarCampSydney and BarCampMelbourne and BarCampPerth and BarCampCanberra.
When? 3rd-4th March, 2007
Links
http://barcamp.org/
http://barcamp.org/BarCampAustralia
http://barcampadelaide.org/
http://barcamp.org/BarCampMelbourne
