Quite some years ago, we brought the #OLPC AKA the 100$ laptop to Rwanda [1].
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CGdoppelpunktreplied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
What happened to the initiative later?
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to RealGene ☣️ last edited by
@RealGene The hand crank was never real, BTW.
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to CGdoppelpunkt last edited by
@CGdoppelpunkt It's still around In total around 3 million laptops have been distributed over the years. https://laptop.org/aboutolpc/
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@tomjennings @simon @jwildeboer
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Paolo Redaellireplied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer @OLPC #meshNetwork is something we should really get as default in all #laptops and #phones. I will try to keep an eye on #IEEE802.11s
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@MonniauxD @simon @jwildeboer There are some technical reasons also. Cellular networks (and coordinated deployment) are very, very efficient and can provide stable services (and QoS).
Meshed networks and ad-hoc deployment work at a different operating point.
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Andy Linton ✅replied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer I remember being in Rwanda some years ago and was tickled by the 500 franc notes.
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Alexander Goeresreplied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by@Jan Wildeboer :krulorange: what has become of this initiative? i haven't heard anything about it since quite some time ...
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to Alexander Goeres last edited by
@jabgoe2089 they distributed around 3 million laptops and are still around, though AFAICS more or less in hibernation mode since 2 years. https://laptop.org
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by [email protected]
https://laptop.org is still around, though I haven’t been in contact with them since years. They distributed around 3 million laptops to children in total. Mostly unnoticed by us here in the west. 7/8
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Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:replied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer The ending of Red Hat's involvement in that project was also seemingly marked by the end of Red Hat trying to bring Linux to kids in general. It was really sad to me because if things had been different, Fedora might be the reference platform for the Raspberry Pi instead...
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora: last edited by
@Conan_Kudo We continued to support Sugar on a stick for many years in the Fedora community. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_on_a_Stick The main reason we didn’t became the default OS on the raspberry is that it isn’t really an open platform, IMHO.
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Debbyreplied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer The OLPC is a fascinating piece of engineering history.
I heard about a reflective technology you used to make the screen readable outdoors even without a backlight.Do you have more inside information on the screen technology?
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to Debby last edited by [email protected]
@Debby It’s the Pixel Qi screen, invented by Mary Lou Jepsen and her team. And yes, it works as described. At the time we called it the transflexive display. You could (and can use it in bright sunlight, without backlight, as a rather high contrast greyscale display. You can also switch on the backlight to get better colours. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Qi and https://wiki.laptop.org/go/Display
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Tobias Struckmeierreplied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer maybe it's time to revive it again? Cause nowadays hardware should be even cheaper and less energy consuming nor?
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to Tobias Struckmeier last edited by
@cryptobiont The hardware never was the real problem of the project, IMHO.
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Tobias Struckmeierreplied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer I don't say it was a problem I just think it could maybe even be more effective?
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Maxime Ripardreplied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer @Conan_Kudo Not really, no. Any x86 machine is less open than a RaspberryPi, and I don't see Fedora having a problem with that.
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Matija Šukljereplied to Tobias Struckmeier last edited by
@cryptobiont @jwildeboer,
Harv Stanić Staalman (one of the people who also worked on/with OLPC, IIRC) has been working with a bunch of other people on a somewhat similar laptop for the last few years: https://balthazar.spaceI’m looking forward to his presentation (and hopefully live demo) in a few weeks at @kiberpipa_cyberpipe
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RealGene ☣️replied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer
That's funny, the overly effusive Wikipedia page says it was, and is available as a snap-on accessory.So, like everything Nick Negroponte touches, it's just bullshit?