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 * I have one Atest board and i would like to know how can i colaborate to the olpc debian portation..where is information about this?, now im trying fedora on it but i would like to try with debian. how can i involucrate myself to this proyect..?
  

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):

  1. To make the Debian installer work with OLPC-machines
  2. To make bare bone Debian run with network connectivety in a mesh network (IPv6)
  3. Make the power management work
  4. To make X and a window manager with simplified debloated desktop
    • 4.1 Make a KDE school desktop with debloated applications
  5. Make it posible to update translations after it's frozen upstream
  6. Make the software distribution simple in large community installation
    • (e.g a staget apt-get repositorie on every school server)
  7. 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.

IRC, Mailing list and other work environments

The #debian-olpc channel on irc.oftc.net or irc.debian.org was created to be a discussion place for the olpc port.

Currently the debian-edu mailing list seems to be used as mailing list support, altough in the future a specialized mailing list could be found.

There is no repository to hold information as of yet, and since the boards arrived rather bare, we are still in unknown teritory.

  • http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/08/26/002217.shtml

     pickyouupatnine writes "According to a story on Ars Technica, the $100 MIT Laptop is now going to cost $140. It has a new name — it'll now be called the Children's Machine 1 (CM1). The added price comes with new features! The laptop will now come with a 400 MHz AMD processor, 512 Megs of Flash storage, an SD card slot, mic and headphone jacks, a built in camera, built-in wireless, and an 8-inch LCD at a 1280x900 resolution."
    
    From the article: "Tremendous progress has been made this summer on the Sugar user interface system that will be shipped with the CM1. Funded by Google through the Summer of Code (SoC) initiative, intrepid college student Erik Pukinskis has collaborated with the GNOME development community to adapt AbiWord for use with the portable Linux system. Although still experimental, AbiWord has successfully been integrated into the Sugar environment. Artists and developers continue to work on the evolving Sugar interface, and the fruits of their labor can be seen in demoes, mockups, and design reviews."  

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

e-mail

Address, Zip etc.

Number of test boards

?LinEx at Extremadura

José "L. Redrejo" Rodríguez

lead dev

Should apply them selves

Skolelinux Norway

KnutYrvin

Project Manager Norway

knuty@skolelinux.no

Haugerudhagen 19E, 0673 OSLO, Norway

2

Debian installer team

ChristianPerrier

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

31 allée des Bruyères 78310 Maurepas, France

1

Debian Developer

Sven Luther

Developer Porting

Got Board

Skolelinux Germany

Fabian Franz

Developer/Testing

I've got the 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

Debian Developer

Anton Borisov

power management/bios issues

I've got the address

1

James Cameron

Mesh-net Developer/Testing

Got a board or boards

Drew Van Zandt

Developer/Testing (Have already booted with DSL)

Got a board

Martin Langhoff

Developer/Testing (Have already booted with DSL)

Got a board

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<first and last name>

<title e.g developer,translator>

<e-mail>

* 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

  • I have one Atest board and i would like to know how can i colaborate to the olpc debian portation..where is information about this?, now im trying fedora on it but i would like to try with debian. how can i involucrate myself to this proyect..?

Art

Total number

A-board for developing and testing

6

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