by | | Culture & Society, Education, Hardware, OLPC, Software, Sugar, syndication-floss, Work
From the “I should have posted this months ago” vault… When I led technology development at One Laptop per Child Australia, I maintained two golden rules: everything that we release must ‘just work’ from the perspective of the user (usually...
by | | Culture & Society, Education, FLOSS, Interviews, OLPC, Open standards, Software, Sugar, syndication-floss, Talks, Work
Adam Holt and I were interviewed last night by the Australian Council for Computers in Education Learning Network about our not-for-profit work to improve educational opportunities for children in the developing world. We talked about One Laptop...
by | | OLPC, Sugar, syndication-floss
Oracle, a sponsor of OLPC Australia, have posted some video interviews of a child and a teacher involved in the One Education...
by | | OLPC, Open standards, Sugar, syndication-floss, Work
One of the most exciting improvements in OLPC OS 12.1.0 is a revamped Browse activity: Browse, Wikipedia and Help have been moved from Mozilla to WebKit internally, as the Mozilla engine can no longer be embedded into other applications (like Browse)...
by | | OLPC, Sugar, syndication-floss, Work
Our One Education programme is growing like crazy, and many existing deployments are showing interest. We wanted to give them a choice of using their own XOs to participate in the teacher training, rather than requiring them to purchase new...
by | | OLPC, Sugar, syndication-floss, Work
Release Candidate 2 of the 2012 OLPC Australia operating system, XO-AU OS 12, has been released. We hope to make a final release in two weeks, in time for the start of term 2 of school in Queensland and Northern Territory. To get started,...
