OLPC 2.0: One Laptop Foundation Reboots With New Focus and Big Plans

Re:OLPC 2.0: One Laptop Foundation Reboots With New Focus an... by pchristensen on Thursday January 29, 2009 @11:09AM (#456519)

Summary: most success has been in Latin America with some potential in the Middle East. Leaving Sugar development to the Open Source community. Striving for no-cost connectivity. Trying to build a library of 1 million digital books. OLPC 2.0 to distribute specs so others can assemble and distribute?

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Re:OLPC 2.0: One Laptop Foundation Reboots With New Focus an... by jimbokun on Thursday January 29, 2009 @11:22AM (#456561)

"Trying to build a library of 1 million digital books."

This one I don't get, relative to what's on the web already. You can probably find 1 million books that have been made freely available, converted to either PDF or HTML.

So does this mean 1 million different books? 1 million books specifically geared for kids in the developing world? Books that take special advantage of XO features? It's not clear from the article.

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Re:OLPC 2.0: One Laptop Foundation Reboots With New Focus an... by cabalamat on Thursday January 29, 2009 @05:33PM (#457266)

> You can probably find 1 million books that have been made freely available, converted to either PDF or HTML.

In which case their job is to catalogue them and put them up in a common format so they are easy to get at.

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