olpc france presentation erice 072008 xavier carcelle
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Présentation OLPC France à l'école d'été de l'association La Main A la Pâte - 14 au 17 juillet 2008TRANSCRIPT
//OLPC France : The XO as the core for collaborative projects//
Xavier Carcelle / Bastien Guerry - 16.07.2008
Erice'08
Outline
• New grassroot OLPC France• Coming from the OpenSource / Hacking• OLPC Austria / Germany• XO platform• Content and Activities• LMAP collaborative projects• OLPC France projects
New grassroot OLPC France
• Different individual initiatives (education, software, hackers, academic, industrial...) gathered
• A wish of different people to be able to relay the OLPC US initiative in France with OLPC Europe grassroot
• Eager to developp SUGAR applications for the XO with french developpers
Coming from Open Source / Hacking
• XOs at 24c3, FOSDEM, RMLL• Samuel Klein from Wikipedia / OLPC
meeting the OLPC Europe• Debian core developping team• Based on OpenBIOS / Linux
distribution / OpenSource
OLPC Austria / Germany
• Debian developpers (Holger, Chris, Aaron)• Mesh network expert (Freifunk, OLSR.org,
802.11s ...)• Projects databases for Europe• Python development• Porting light Linux on the XO• Yum, XOGET ... simple installation of
activities
The XO platform
• Spécifications of the X0• Hardware of the X0• Software of the X0• Peripherals of the X0• MeshNetworking with the X0
XO Screen
• 7.5 inch, 1200×900 pixel, TFT screen and self-refreshing display with higher resolution (200 DPI)
• the reflective mode consumes a miserly 0.2 watts.
• Two display modes are available: a transmissive, full-color mode, and a reflective, high-resolution black and white mode that is sunlight readable
X0 dimensions
X0 MotherBoard
X0 Specifications• Approximate dimensions: 242mm×228mm×32mm; 2mm
plastic box• Approximate weight: 1.45KG with LiFeP battery; 1.58KG with
NiMH battery; • CPU: AMD Geode [email protected] – 433MHz• Graphics controller: Integrated with Geode CPU; unified memory
architecture; • DRAM memory: 256 MiB dynamic RAM; • Data rate: Dual — DDR333 — 166 Mhz; • CAFE ASIC (Camera, Flash Enabler chip, provides high-
performance Camera, NAND FLASH and SD interfaces); Marvell 88ALP01
• Keyboard layout pictures: international, Thai, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, West African, Urdu, Mongolian, Cyrillic, Amharic;
• Wi-Fi : 802.11b/g (2.4GHz) interface; 802.11s (Mesh) networking mesh operation when CPU is powered down; Marvell Libertas 88W8388 controller and 88W8015 radio;
• USB: Three Type-A USB-2.0 connectors; up to 1A power supplied
X0 Software platform
• BIOS/loader : Open Firmware used to load the operating system.
• Linux Kernel: Linux 2.6.22; Fedora 7 base environment.
• Sugar : User interface• Matchbox : Windows manager• Yum : packages manager(#yum install package)
X0 peripherals
5Watt/14Volt panel for single laptop charging
Sugar on the X0
Mesh on the X0 : pré-802.11s
dev.laptop.org/browser
OLPC Software updatebash3.2# rsync rsync://updates.laptop.org|sed 's/^build//'649650653656debiandebianbigfrsjoyride1600joyride1601joyride1602joyride1604joyride1605joyride1606joyride1607joyride1608joyride1609joyride1610joyride1611update.1670update.1690bash3.2#olpcupdate version
Hardware projects
• Wi-Fi microkernel• Free software emulator of the XO• Gateway to a wireless OLPC gateway• OpenHardware router board for the
infrastructure : OpenPattern box
OLPC in action
• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Current_events
• Uruguay : 350k XO deployed • Mongolie : High altitude• OLPC Vs Satellite 2008 Conference• Haiti• http://www.laptopgiving.org/• Porting different packages to the XO
Contents and Activities
• Under the directory /home/olpc/• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities• Each activity is a archive.xo file (ZIP) that is
uncompressed on the XO to be available in the activities screen on Sugar
• xoget: org.laptop.xoget A GUI for installing and removing activities
LMAP collaborative projects
• Common development for the XO to be tested on a pilot site in France
• LAMAP bundle or activities like lamap.xo archive preloaded on the XO for LAMAP projects
• Using the great content manager for the LAMAP website
• Deploying the projects in a common OLPC / LAMAP environment
OLPC France projects
• « Concours d'idees » to get some great developpers and people starting individual initiatives in France
• Launching of a local RepairCenter with a first set of broken Xos
• BurkinaFaso projects on preparation• Translation of the XO / Activities content• Contacts with the OpenSource people in
France
Contact
• Xavier Carcelle : [email protected]
• Bastien Guerry : [email protected]• OLPC France : contact@olpcfrance.org