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Presentation of Rowen Remis Iral during Ubuntu Love Day Manila 2008 on Aug. 23, 2008
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Ubuntu and OLPC XO-1
Rowen Remis R. Iral
Project Manager/IT Engineer
Ubuntu Philippines Event
2008 August 23
University of the Philippines
Lecture Hall, Department of Computer Science2nd Floor, UP Alumni Engineers Centennial Hall
Velasquez St, Diliman, Quezon City
Copyright 2008 © OLPC Philippines
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What is OLPC?
• OLPC – One Laptop Per Child
• “It’s not a laptop project, it’s an education project”. Nicholas Negroponte
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Brief History of OLPC-PH
• OLPC Philippines started on 2007
• Sandeep Chandiramani (sgc). Boston-based global person. Red Hat employee from 1998-2006. Volunteered at OLPC (MIT) in Oct'06. Brought the first prototype to the Philippines in Jan'07. Trying to take the initiative to the next level.
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History• 2007
– B1 Test Machine arrives in the Philippines (sgc)
– Demo to DepEd, CICT, ASTI and private representatives
– Countries Meeting in Cambridge, MA
– B2-1 XO arrived for development and testing
– B4 Arrived for Malaya Linux Foundation
– OLPCPH name
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History• 2008
– Mike Kouklis
– Charles Chen get together with PBSP
– Other interested Parties including Aboitiz
– Alvin Marcelo for Medical Project
– Elizabeth Racquel
– JM Nepomuceno
– Educational Server
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The Core OLPCPH
• Timothy Paul B. Martinez, Malaya GNU/Linux Foundation (Founder)
• Rowen Remis R. Iral, (Project Manager)
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Planned Developments• Own GUI for XO machine
• Design for own low-cost hardware
• Porting D.S.L., Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian etc to low-cost laptop
• Alternatives
• Education Content and Applications
• Software and hardware
• Servers and Infrastructure
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Action
• Invitation to join as Volunteer:
– Developer Software/Hardware
– Marketer
– Management
– Web management
– Communications
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Project Goals
• Educating the next generation through technology
• Implementing a tool to improve education system
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OLPC Machine• Linux Software
• GNU
• Mesh/Wifi antennae
• 256MB RAM (128MB)
• 433MHz (AMD Geode CPU)
• Keyboard, Dual-mode LCD, Mic, Speaker, Camera
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Alternative to the Machine
• Low-cost laptop from China
– 128MB
– 500MHz CPU
– Costs around $159
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Sugar
• Sugar – the sweet GUI of the OLPC
• Activities – applications that run on the machine
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Why Choose Ubuntu on XO?
• Easy to install and maintain
• Can run on an SD Card
• Same feel as traditional desktop environment
• Special versions for Scientific, Education and Developers exists
• Based on GNU/Linux and Debian
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OLPC Machine in Action
• The B4 running Sugar in NAND Flash
• The B4 running Ubuntu in SD Card
• Fedora 9 can run on the OLPC Machine
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OLPC Philippines
• www.olpcph.co.cc
Thank you.Rowen Remis R. Iral
www.wenmi01.co.cc
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