Tim McNamara - OLPC XO: Python bringing education to the world's poorest children
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Covers the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) XO project: its goals and controversies, the XO hardware (with demos of mesh networking and collaboration), and the Sugar software environment (a Fedora-based Python platform) including how to build Activities. Also explains Sugar’s UI/education principles, deployment in schools, and how to get involved with local XO groups in New Zealand.
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