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Debian Edu One Laptop per Child project
After a tip from Walter Bender at MIT, I was subscribing to the devel-boards list for the One Laptop per Child project. Walter is president, software and content, of the One Laptop per Child foundation.
My subscription was forwarded to the list moderator for approval. Then i got a nice e-mail from Jim Gettys. He wrote that if my interest in the list is to get a developer's board, then please follow the following instructions (look at the bootom):
This will result in a developer's board if the request is at all reasonable, and you will be added to the mailing list (which is meant to be low volume announcements for people with boards).
I wrote some suggestions for a plan to get the OLPC-machine up running April 5th 2006:
So people, I could apply for boards to realize this plan. (The plan is not at all finale, but a suggestion):
- To make the Debian installer work with OLPC-machines
- To make bare bone Debian run with network connectivety in a mesh network (IPv6)
- Make the power management work
- To make X and a window manager with simplified debloated desktop
- 4.1 Make a KDE school desktop with debloated applications
- Make it posible to update translations after it's frozen upstream
- Make the software distribution simple in large community installation
- (e.g a staget apt-get repositorie on every school server)
- Make the OLPC integrate with the schools server when it's on the network
It's a considerable job tailoring the different subsystem in Debian to OLPC hardware. The installer has to be tailored, the network mesh net support has to work, simplified debloated desktop has to be configured, and the power management has to work.
We have done interesting things with Custom Debian Distributions and Debian Installer in the Skolelinux / Debian Edu environment before. It seems to me that more people have joined the Skolelinux / Debian Edu project. I believe the One Laptop per Child is important for Debian, and we should do this development.
People or organisations that are interested
People that is interested in helping, and a list of they who apply for boards:
Organisation |
Contact person |
Role |
Address, Zip etc. |
Number of test boards |
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?LinEx at Extremadura |
José "L. Redrejo" Rodríguez |
lead dev |
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Should apply them selves |
Skolelinux Norway |
Project Manager Norway |
Haugerudhagen 19E, 0673 OSLO, Norway |
2 |
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Debian installer team |
developer, more to act as a connection between the D-I team and the OLPC ppl and conduct regular tests about D-I working or not |
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31 allée des Bruyères 78310 Maurepas, France |
1 |
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Sven Luther |
Developer Porting |
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Need address |
1 |
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Drew Van Zandt |
Secondary Mesh-net Developer/Testing |
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Got a board |
1 |
Skolelinux Germany |
Fabian Franz |
Developer/Testing |
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Need address |
1 |
Skolelinux Germany |
AlexanderSchremmer and others |
Developer |
Skolelinux Germany is currently waiting for the shipment by Brightstar, the team will receive one machine that will be located in the German test center |
Got a board |
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Debian Developer |
Anton Borisov |
power management/bios issues |
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I've got the address |
1 |
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James Cameron |
Mesh-net Developer/Testing |
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Need address |
Got a board or boards |
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Drew Van Zandt |
Developer/Testing (Have already booted with DSL) |
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Got a board |
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Martin Langhoff |
Developer/Testing (Have already booted with DSL) |
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Got a board |
<organisation> |
<first and last name> |
<title e.g developer,translator> |
<e-mail> |
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* We need address information to send post you the OLPC-board. I you are concerned about privacy, you could send your address information to KnutYrvin, and he will handle this privately so that the borards (if we get them), will be sent to the right persons.
** I believe the ?LinEx project just could apply for boards
Art |
Total number |
A-board for developing and testing |
10 |
Improved Debian Boot project
[http://initscripts-ng.alioth.debian.org/soc2006-bootsystem/deliverables.html Improved Debian Boot] project is done by Carlos Villegas and mentored by Petter Reinholdtsen as a student project as a part of the Google summer of code project