Check out this video we found:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VievUua9qyw
Fun fact: "Edge engineered/played/orchestrated/made the start up sound for the XO laptop which was made as part of the One Laptop Per Child initiative. Here is that sound. Only 4 seconds or so long and sounds exactly like Beautiful Day." -- https://u2start.com/topic/3859
@Rusty @dragonarchitect I disagree re: webOS and FirefoxOS.
#webOS failed due to lack of market penetration (there was only like 1 Tablet from #hp) and #FirefoxOS failed because @mozillaofficial didn't even offer to sell devices to folks like me and @fuchsiii that wanted one.
Add to that the absurdity that #Mozilla basically expected carriers (!!) to maintain and provide the #AppStore|s themselves and you get market fracturing worse than the "P.R." #China (!!!)…
It was mismanaged and self-sabotaged in the worst possible way.
The #Duopoly of #Android & #iOS wasn't unavoidable, but an outcome of #SelfSabotage and halfassed non-commitment by competitors!
I know Ramy from the #OneLaptopPerChild community. He told me he has a multimedia degree from Palestine University and 10 years of experience in electronics, medical equipment, electric/hybrid cars and electric bikes, maintenance and design of electronic devices, and solar energy, CNC & 3d printing, and PC maintenance/programming. He is willing to test to show his expertise in any of these subjects. Can you help connect him with anyone that can help? 2/
@jwildeboer Software Freedom Day, Melbourne
Hosted by LUV (Linux Users Victoria) & others at The Hub, Melbourne, 2008SEP20.
Hens teeth. Just a few years later the #RPi came out 
#OLPC / #laptop / #computers <https://flickr.com/photos/bootload/albums/72157607387630079/with/2871574159>
I wonder how a new #olpc built around a #RaspberryPi500 and Raspberry Pi display might work? Like a ruggedized Pi500 laptop?
Going back to #OLPC wiki.laptop.org I am reminded that after Bender and the Sugar team were kicked out, the entire wiki was scrubbed and pruned of all the volunteer user pages, including my own.
It was a kick to the face of so many volunteers who gave their time and energy toward something we all believed in, and a brick in the wall of bitterness that I now have about the intersection of capitalism and free software.
@serge yeah, #RMS is a cringy "FLOSS extremist" in the worst sense of it, because he started hating #OLPC for merely making it possible to put #Windows on the #XO1.
And for him everythng that isn't #GPLv3 or #AGPLv3 isn't #FLOSS to him, with his fanboys getting caught harrassing projects to "switch to GPLv3" for no reason.
@jwildeboer this story is extraordinarily stupid (as far as the government goes) because the goal of #OLPC was to improve education, and then the government fumes because their population starts to make educated decisions...
Quite some years ago (2006-08), we brought the #OLPC AKA the 100$ laptop to Ethiopia as pilot. A surprising thing happened. The laptops were often without battery power in the morning. A thing that wasn’t anticipated. It had two reasons. One was the keyboard LED (it was removed in later series). It was used by the parents to have a light at home. The other was a bigger surprise. The parents used the mesh networking to discuss market prices for their produce. Fascinating. 1/8
A story I could write: an alternative timeline where the #OLPC (One Laptop Per Child AKA as the 100 dollar laptop) became the global default for education and created, with its mesh network, a decentralised approach to a true Internet Of People. A future built on connecting people. Where sharing brought progress. It can still be done. I’m convinced of that. And I continue to work on motivating many more to get to that future :) Those OLPC pictures are recent! They work and I use them :)
Libre hardware and software design is inherently global. If you're interested in that kind of work and intend for a wide reach then it's worth learning about why even projects with good intentions can fail to transfer to people in different situations than yours, be it location, infrastructure, and/or bodily capabilities.
https://youtu.be/CGRtyxEpoGg
#olpc #design #foss #oshw
Join Sugar Labs online this Friday for a conversation with Lylian Peraza, Vice President of Project Development at OLPC. Let's hear what they're up to now, as well as their plans for the future. The event will be broadcast live at 19:00 UTC (3pm Eastern) on YouTube. Cheers!
Our #GirlsDay in the #RedHat #Munich office yesterday was a big success. Special thanks to @random_musings for sending us #OLPC that were a BIG THING :)
My B4 #OLPC prototype, 15+ years old. Original battery. Still works and battery charging is no problem. Impressive little machine :)
Just because it didn’t work doesn’t mean it was a waste of time. You just need to look for the right rewards. #OLPC
@bazcurtis @Cloudguy I’m still in touch with my elementary school math teacher that introduced me to the #Commodore64. I slightly repaid the favor thirty years later by rehabilitating a collection of #OLPC XO laptops for her to bring to kids in Africa
@mwichary Oh yeah, #OLPC as a singular project is dead, though fragments and fractals live on: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now
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