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OLPC Australia had a strong presence at linux.conf.au 2012 in Ballarat, two weeks ago. I gave a talk in the main keynote room about our educational programme, in which I explained our mission and how we intend to achieve it. Even if you saw my talk at...
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Update: my talk has been covered by OLPC News. Here’s the video of the talk I said I’d be giving at OSDC 2011, titled Australia’s Toughest Linux Deployment: In it, I outline our educational programme and how the technology fits into it. Some key...
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The video of my talk at linux.conf.au is online. You can watch/download it online (OGV format). Overall, I think it went quite well. A personal criticism is that I need to seriously cut back on my use of ‘um’ and ‘ah’ sounds. Suggestions on combating this...
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I’ll be at linux.conf.au flying the OLPC Australia flag. In addition to giving a talk, I have plans for a whole range of other things, including: running a Birds of a Feather session hosting a stand at Open Day contributing XO‑1.5s to win as door prizes...
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I will be speaking at linux.conf.au 2011 in Brisbane about OLPC Australia, with a focus on the technical side. We have been doing some amazing stuff, but thus far we have been very quiet about it in the technical community. It’s time to fix this oversight....
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We at OLPC Australia celebrated our first birthday with a massive bang — a black-tie gala event held at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Sydney Harbour. It was a wonderful night of celebrating Australian Indigenous art, music, culture and food....