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 bottom):
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 connectivity 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 repositories 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.
Debian on a B2
You now can install debian base on an OLPC B2 machine please see [http://wiki.debian.org/howto_debian_olpc]
Current Kernel packages
Current xorg packages
- missing
Sugar interface on Debian
Now is possible to use the sugar interface from Debian. Just follow the steps from http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/OLPC/BuildSugar.
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.
Now there is a [http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-olpc/ Debian-OLPC project].
Also you can join the [http://alioth.debian.org/mail/?group_id=31108 mail lists].
- And there is an svn available:
- svn co svn+ssh://user@svn.debian.org/svn/debian-olpc - svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-olpc (anonymous)
- Debian wiki related pages:
?PageList(regex:case:^DebianEdu/OLPC/[^/]*$)
Links
The Red hat OLPC liveCD: http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/sdk/build1/livecd/
Sugar On Debian with Jhbuild: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Debian
Sugar On Debian (Spanish): http://slcolombia.org/SuGar
About
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 demos, mock-ups, and design reviews."
People or organizations 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 |
|
?LinEx at Extremadura |
José "L. Redrejo" Rodríguez |
lead dev |
José L. Redrejo Rodríguez <jredrejo@debian.org> |
|
Should apply them selves |
Skolelinux Norway |
Project Manager Norway |
Haugerudhagen 19E, 0673 OSLO, Norway |
2 |
||
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 |
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 |
|
Qty 2 of A-Test, Qty 3 of B-Test-1, Qty 3 of B-Test-2 |
|
|
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 |
|
Skolelinux French and NM |
Developer/Testing |
71, rue de RUFFEC 57200 FRANCE |
1 |
||
|
Developer/Testing |
|
Qty 1 of A-Test, Qty 2 of B-Test-2 |
||
Debian Developer / Guadalinex |
Ghe Rivero |
Devoleper |
CPD, Univ. Pontifica, C. Compañia 5, 37002, Salamanca, Spain |
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<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 boards (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 |
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