>From the community newsletter of the OLPC project: "India: Satish Jha, OLPC India's CEO and president, has started working with Manusheel Gupta. Satish will be formally introduced locally by Nicholas Negroponte on August 4 during OLPC India Day. Satish already is discussing a customs duty exemption for the XO with government officials, and will pursue the subject in upcoming contacts with various agencies, including the Ministry of Finance."
Read more about OLPC India on this page at the official OLPC Wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India Hemant Goyal from New Delhi is working on the integration of speech synthesis in the Sugar environment. He is accepted for Google's summer of code 2008. You can find more information and links about first attempts to make the XO laptop accessible and about the OLPC project and community at: http://blind.wikia.com/wiki/OLPC A few months ago, I had a XO-1 laptop in my hands. It is a nice and robust device and has small but good tactile keys. Hopefully many children all around the world will have access to it in the future. Hopefully disabled children will be able to use it for learning and participation as well. Best regards, Per Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
