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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):

  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

Derivatives:

  • 4.1 Make a KDE school desktop with debloated applications (Since Knut Yrvin is Community Manager for qt at Trolltech from August 1th 2006, and KDE is used as a desktop on Skolelinux, this could should be done to pull the resources together).

But with no developers interested doing the development, I see no reason for applying for boards. So it depends on what the Debian Edu and Debian contributers are interested in.

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:

Organisation

Contact person

Role

e-mail

Address, Zip etc.

?LinEx at Extremadura

José "L. Redrejo" Rodríguez

lead dev

Skolelinux developer

KnutYrvin

project manager

knuty@skolelinux.no

Haugerudhagen 19E, 0673 OSLO, Norway

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

Sven Luther

developer

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

Debian Developer

Anton Borisov

power management/bios issues

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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.