Hello ilughyd, If you are a volunteer with the OLPC project, please take a few seconds and map yourself at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India#Connecting_dots_in_India This is a India-wide effort, as we revive and reinvigorate the volunteer community. Help us by curating content, translating Sugar into your local language, or writing/testing code.
>From a Linux perspective, OLPC deployments provide interesting challenges of running clients and servers in tight spaces. The XO laptops run a version of Fedora 9 and 11 with GNOME and Sugar (RH is the official OS partner for them) and with 2 million units, its no small change! The server runs Fedora 9 with Apache, PHP, PostgreSQL, Squid, ejabberd, and Moodle. Some versions run in 256MB RAM, and on solar panels and batteries (http://www.green-wifi.org/solutions/technology/), so you can appreciate the challenge :-) I would also like to suggest a session/meeting to introduce the FOSS side of the project to ilughyd members. One of us could do this online via ustream or some such service, along with local folks like Shakthi and Thejaswi, who have had some experience with the project now. The KMR Foundation folks have also suggested that they will be able to loan units out to those who would like to get up to speed with the Aziznagar deployment in particular, and OLPC project in general. If you are interested in contributing long-term (code, testing, translation, content), then you can put together a proposal and get XOs at no charge directly from OLPC. Take a look at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program I must reiterate, that I am not employed by OLPC in any capacity - I am a long-time volunteer and will be happy to help. Oh, and I grew up in Hyderabad a long time ago, hence the interest :-) cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu/
