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):

  1. To make the Debian installer work with OLPC-machines
  2. To make bare bone Debian run with network connectivity 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 repositories 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.

Debian on a B2

Current Kernel packages

Current xorg packages

server-xorg-video-amd is now in NEW queue, add "deb http://q-funk.iki.fi/debian/ unstable main" to your sources.list if you need it now.

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

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About

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

e-mail

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

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

bubulle@debian.org

31 allée des Bruyères 78310 Maurepas, France

1

Debian Developer

Sven Luther

Developer Porting

sven@powerlinux.fr

Got Board

Skolelinux Germany

Fabian Franz

Developer/Testing

debian@fabian-franz.de

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

alex@alexanderweb.de

Got a board

Debian Developer

Anton Borisov

power management/bios issues

anton.borisov@gmail.com

I've got the address

1

James Cameron

Mesh-net Developer/Testing

quozl@us.netrek.org

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)

martin@scim.net

Got a board

Skolelinux French and NM

XavierOswald

Developer/Testing

x.oswald@free.fr

71, rue de RUFFEC 57200 FRANCE

1

RafaelOrtiz

Developer/Testing

dirakx@gmail.com

Qty 1 of A-Test, Qty 2 of B-Test-2

Debian Developer / Guadalinex

Ghe Rivero

Devoleper

ghe@debian.org

CPD, Univ. Pontifica, C. Compañia 5, 37002, Salamanca, Spain

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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