Talk:One Laptop per Child/Archive 3

Some external links
I've been inspired by a Slashdot post about a video of a speech given by Nicholas Negroponte about the $100 laptop. I noticed that the OLPC article was missing so I'm going to set out to write the article.

Here are some outside articles and blog posts about OLPC and the $100 laptop that will probably come in useful: Grant 03:13, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * MIT Media Lab: $100 Laptop
 * "One Laptop per Child" Vision Almost a Reality
 * WorldChanging: One Laptop Per Child - a Preview of the Hundred Dollar Laptop
 * WorldChanging: One Laptop Per Child -- Updated
 * Redhat.com: Making One Laptop per Child a reality
 * BoinBoing: One laptop per child for the developing world
 * 'One Laptop per Child' project continues
 * WSJ: The $100 Laptop Moves Closer to Reality
 * BBC News: Digital guru floats sub-$100 PC
 * ...My heart's in Accra: One Laptop Per Child

Facts to include

 * Non-profit organization set up by the MIT Media Lab to develop the $100 laptop
 * Announced at World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland in January 2005 by Nicholas Negroponte
 * Chairman is Nicholas Negroponte
 * CTO is Mary Lou Jepsen
 * A working prototype of the $100 laptop to U.N Secretary General Kofi Annan, at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia
 * Companies and institutions involved with OLPC
 * Redhat
 * Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
 * Brightstar
 * Google
 * News Corporation
 * Nortel Networks
 * eBay
 * Quanta
 * SES Astra
 * Marvell
 * UNDP
 * UL
 * Google Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Red Hat Inc., News Corp. and Brightstar Corp. have each provided $2,000,000 to fund the project

Nicholas Negroponte no longer part of MIT Media Lab?
I think that this is worth mentioning, as he has also stated that he will be trying to focus mainly on the 100 dollar laptop project 195.8.3.165 09:39, 22 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Negroponte is still lab faculty. He is just no longer the Chairman of the lab. See this article for more information. Negroponte is taking a (much) reduced role in the lab in order to focus on OLPC. —mako 21:59, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

How bout u just say negroponte instead of MIT Labs. After all he is the only one who is stiking back against Critics and not other members. Aceofspades 18:58, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Critcisms about the project
There have been many criticisms about the feasibility of the project too, most notably from Lee Felsenstein, co-founder of the Jhai Foundation. I think it would be worthwhile to include it in this page. Critique of the $100 laptop project


 * There is extensive criticism of the $100 laptop in the Wikipedia article on the project itself. Are there criticism of One Laptop per Child, the foundation that merit mention here? --Walter Bender 26 April 2006

Misleading URL
One Laptop Per Child News is not affiliated with One Laptop per Child, Association. "Official" news about the project can be found in the project's wiki. --Walter.bender 21:39, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

The name may not be "misleading". One Laptop Per Child News states in its header that is an independent source of news, information, commentary, and discussion about OLPC, and says in About OLPC News, it is not associated with the One Laptop Per Child organization or any of its participants.

Better Picture
Is there a chance to replace at least one of the pictures with crappy looking prototypes with the nice green one from the Children's machine - article? 84.56.15.27 00:32, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Marvell NDA
The Theo de Raadt letter is hearsay. Where is the evidence supporting his assertions?

Merge with Children's Machine?
"It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Children's Machine."


 * Support: the organization only exists for the sake of the laptop, right? I think they might be dealt with better in one article. --Singkong2005 &middot; talk 02:57, 16 October 2006 (UTC)


 * On the contrary, the laptop only exists for the sake of the organization's goals. Other laptops may also be suitable for achieving those goals. --Walter.bender 06:48, 17 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Support. Other laptops have been rejected by the organisation. They maintain their own engineering team to develop the laptop. - User:Samsara (talk • contribs) 11:04, 19 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Support. What they said. What's holding this up? Chris Cunningham 11:18, 19 October 2006 (UTC)