1. Exploring, Sharing, Reflecting, Learning
One Laptop Per Child
Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Presentation:
Associate Professor IEEE Computer Society
Information Systems Department and IIIT
San Francisco State University
Hyderabad, India
San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
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3. Outline
Introduction Education Laptop Community

4. About myself

5. Disclaimer
● I do not work for OLPC!
● Volunteer, enthusiast, researcher,
developer
– Interests
● Free and Open Source Software and Content
● Internationalization/Localization
● User Interface Design
● Networks
● IT Sustainability

6. Disruptive
● OLPC: Excellent example of disruptive
technology innovation
– Education: learning is student-driven
– Hardware: sustainable computing at its best
– Software: power of Free and Open Source at
work
– Content: a public commons of content

7. Somebody is finally
thinking of the
children!

8. Education
● Its an education project, not a laptop
project.
– Nicholas Negroponte, Founder - OLPC
● OLPC's Goal:
– To provide children around the world with
new opportunities to explore, experiment and
express themselves.

9. A different generation...

10. School Galadima, Abuja City, Nigeria
See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Galadima

11. Samkha village located in the suburbs of northern Thailand
See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Thailand/Ban_Samkha

12. Khairat school is India's pilot site.
See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India

13. Khairat school is India's pilot site.
See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India

14. Khairat school is India's pilot site.
See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India

15. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ulaanbaatar

16. http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/10/olpc-ethiopia-updates/

17. http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/2921143251/

18. http://www.buzzmoo.com/?p=257

19. Deployments worldwide
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops

20. school...to go

21. Sugar: a different interface

22. http://laptopgiving.org/en/software-and-interface.php

23. Neighborhood Group Home Journal

25. Sugar
● Focus on activities, not applications
– “Write” a letter vs. “use” Microsoft Word
– Educational vs. Vocational
● Run your own Sugar environment!
– Download ISO image at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveCD
– Burn to CD.
– Boot computer with CD. No installation
required!

26. Activities
● Write
– A simple word processor
● Chat
– XMPP based. Same as Google Talk
● Browse
– Firefox-based + flash + AJAX
● Record
– stills and video
More activities... http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities

27. One forward, One right
An interesting way to
draw a circle in TurtleArt
One step forward,
wait for one second,
one degree to the right,
repeat 360 times
The wait allows you
to see the turtle draw
the circle slowly
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Turtle_Art

28. the XO laptop

29. XO Board

30. Laptop
● 7.5 inch diagonal screen at 1200x900
(200 dpi)
– Sunlight readable!
● Wi-Fi, USB, microphone, speakers,
camera, SD card slot
● Screen rotates to tablet mode
● Water resistant keyboard
● Dust resistant design

31. More laptop
● Laptop, turned on its head
– All electronics are in the upper section,
except the keyboard.
– Easy to replace components
– Carry handle also acts as base stabilizer
– Wi-Fi rabbit ears double up as latches and
increase range
– Any 11 to 24 volt power supply will do
● wall charger, car battery, crank/yoyo power, solar
panel

32. Yo Yo Charger
http://www.potenco.com/products

33. Hand Crank Charger
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/Hand_Crank

34. Solar Panel
5 Watt/14Volt panel
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Product_News#Solar_Panels

35. Green
● Looks green, works
green
– Fully recyclable
● 5 year life span
– Idle power
consumption
● Desktop – 80 watts
● Laptop – 25 to 60 watts
● OLPC – 1 to 8 watts

36. Power
● Batteries that last 4x longer
– Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO4)
– Currently at ~ 5hrs, final goal ~10 hrs
● 0.1 watt in sunlight readable mode
● Running at full blast
– Wi-Fi, full backlight, camera, microphone,
speakers
– 7 to 8 watts

37. Mesh Networking
● Mesh does not require central hub-like
infrastructure
● Wireless mesh works even when the CPU
suspends
Based on an early draft of IEEE 802.11s

38. No moving parts
● No fans, no hard drive, nothing spins.
– 1GB Flash + 256 MB RAM
– USB storage
– SD slot
● AMD Geode processor runs cool.
– Does not need a fan to cool it off
– No air slots or ducts

39. Linux in the box
Fedora 7 and 9 based builds
Sugar runs on popular Linux distros

40. FOSS: Free and Open Source
● When the project started FOSS was the
only option that was flexible enough for
this project
● No vendor lock-in on formats
● No royalties on redistribution
● No discrimination based on fields of
endeavor
● Scalable global model for software and
content

41. FOSS makes it happen

42. Languages
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian,
Aymara, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa
Melayu, Basque, Bengali, Bengali
(India), Bislama, Bulgarian, Catalan,
Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong),
Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech,
Danish, Dari, Dutch, Dzongkha,
English, English (South African),
English (US), Estonian, Filipino,
Finnish, French, French (Canada),
Friulian, Fula, Galician, Georgian,
German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa,
Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic,
Igbo, Italian, Japanese, Kannada,
Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kreyol,
Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese,
Marathi, Marovo, Mongolian, Nauruan,
Nepali, Norwegian, Norwegian
Bokmål, Papiamento, Papua New
Tutorial: Guinea Pidgin (Tok Pisin), Pashto,
Persian, Polish, Portuguese,
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452 Portuguese (Brazil), Punjabi, Quechua,
Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sindhi,
Translate: Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Solomon
Islands Pidgin, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili,
https://dev.laptop.org/translate/ Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Templates,
Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu,
Vietnamese, Wolof, Yoruba, pseudo
L10n

43. Sugar Guidelines
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines

44. Activities, Not Applications
● There are no software applications. The
laptop focuses children around
quot;activities.quot;
● Activities are distinct from applications in
their focus —collaboration and expression
– Abiword becomes Write
– Firefox/Gecko becomes Browse

45. Presence
● Everyone has the potential for being both
a learner and a teacher.
● Employs a mesh network that
interconnects all laptops within range.
– Telepathy framework
● Telepathy-gabble for using a Jabber server across
the Internet
– http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Telepathy_Gabble
● Telepathy-salut for p2p/mesh collaboration
– http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Telepathy-salut

46. Tools of Expression
● The laptop is a quot;thing to think withquot;
● Principle of quot;learning through doingquot;
● Constructivist learning
– http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Constructivism

47. Journaling
● The concept of the Journal, a written
documentation of everyday events,
● Journal metaphor for the filesystem as our
basic approach to file organization.
– http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal

48. What motivates me...

49. No XO?
● Sugar has packages for most popular
distros
● Sugar Build System
– jhbuild:
http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Jhbuild

50. How can you help?
● Educators
– http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educators
● Translators
– http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization
– http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452
● Developers
– http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer
● Getting involved
– http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Getting_involved_in_OLPC
● Sugar
– http://sugarlabs.org

51. Contributor Program
● OLPC Contributor Program is designed to
get you a XO laptop in exchange for
contribution. The info you will need for
applying:
● Project
● Propose
Apply at:
● Other contributors http://projectdb.olpc.at/
● Audience or impact
● Brief description
● Relevant experience & other projects
● Contact information
● # of XOs needed, and their use

52. SugarLabs
● http://sugarlabs.org/
● An effort to take Sugar to a wider
audience
● PCs
● School labs
● Laptops
● Netbooks
http://flickr.com/photos/48600098314@N01/1949245574

53. Mailing lists
● Educators
– http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/educators
● Software Developers
– General development
●http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
– Sugar UI
● http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
All mailing lists are at http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/

54. Community lists
● Everyone
– http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
– http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
● OLPC India
– http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/india

55. OLPC and the community
● Why community matters
– Local interest groups
● IT sector, colleges, etc.
– Volunteers
● Students, Staff, Faculty and private citizens
– Ownership
● Points of Focus
● Technology (Hardware, Software, Networks)
● Outreach (Community, Private citizens)
● Education (Schools, Publishers, etc.)

56. Bhagmalpur project
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bhagmalpur
● Location:
● Village: Bhagmalpur
● District: Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh
● Railway Station: Shahganj
● Bus Stop: Banuwadeeh
● School:
● Classes: 1 to 8 class
● Children: 1087
● Teachers: 11
● Internet: none
● Computers: none

57. free, open, creative, meritocratic, peer-
reviewed, educational, innovative
you

58. free, open, creative, meritocratic, peer-
reviewed, educational, innovative
participate
you

59. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
--mohandas k. gandhi

60. Coming soon...
http://amazon.com/xo

61. Contact