5

arstechnica.com - 1/7/2009

OLPC downsizes half of its staff, cuts Sugar development

— arstechnica.com — The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, which aims to build low-cost mobile computing devices for students... in developing countries, has announced major layoffs. Read More... (more) OLPC downsizes half of its staff, cuts Sugar development

Comments vote downundo vote up GigaOM Network found this 1/7/2009found this

6

wiki.laptop.org - 1/8/2009

XO-2 - OLPC

— wiki.laptop.org — From OLPC [ edit ] The Next Generation On May 21, 2008, at an OLPC Country Meeting,... design studies of a next-generation OLPC laptop (the XOXO, XO-2, or just 2) were shown to attendees and to the world press. The second generation device from OLPC ... (more) XO-2 - OLPC

Hardware

Comments vote downundo vote up Liliputing found this 1/8/2009found this

3

olpcnews.com - 1/7/2009

Running Mac OS 9 On Your OLPC XO - OLPC News Forum

— olpcnews.com — Running Mac OS 9 on your OLPC XO is a good way to have a Mac kind... of experience with your little green laptop. This guide is for XOs running Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) from an SD card. The software used to run Mac OS is SheepShaver, a PowerPC Macintosh ... (more) Running Mac OS 9 On Your OLPC XO - OLPC News Forum

Hardware

Mac

Comments vote downundo vote up Liliputing found this 1/7/2009found this

Leave a Comment

OLPC to Slash Staff in Half, Along with Development Cuts [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — ... Nicholas Negroponte, who runs the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, has confirmed in a wiki post that hard times have hit the OLPC effort. The organization will be cutting its staff by 50 percent and giving salary reductions to the remaining 32 people on board, according to Negroponte. "Like many other nonprofits that are facing tough economic times, One Laptop per Child must downsize in order to keep costs in line with fewer financial resources," he says. OLPC will continue to work on its version 2.0, and there will be continuing efforts ...

OLPC to Slash Staff in Half, Along with Development Cuts
OStatic blogs — ... Nicholas Negroponte, who runs the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, has confirmed in a wiki post that hard times have hit the OLPC effort. The organization will be cutting its staff by 50 percent and giving salary reductions to the remaining 32 people on board, according to Negroponte. "Like many other nonprofits that are facing tough economic times, One Laptop per Child must downsize in order to keep costs in line with fewer financial resources," he says. OLPC will continue to work on its version 2.0, and there will be continuing efforts to pass the Sugar ...

OLPC lays off staff, cuts salaries,
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — ... In a study in contrasts, the good news from Project Gutenberg is countered by bad news from the One Laptop Per Child Project. Here is the latest news from their Wiki. ...

OLPC Scales Back, Cuts 50 Percent of Staff [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Nicholas Negroponte, the promoter of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, says that economic hard times have hit the OLPC effort & the group will cut its staff by half and remaining 32 will take a big salary cut. The work on version 2.0 continues but some of the software efforts are being passed on to the community. Over past 12 months, OLPC has been hit with problems including ...

OLPC cuts staff in half
Liliputing — ... Netbooks are one of the hottest segments of the computer market today, and netbooks might not exist if it hadn’t been for Nicholas Negroponte’s ...

OLPC Feels The Pinch
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... , Jan 8, 2009 12:51 PM [image] Chalk up another open source victim of hard days: the One Laptop Per Child project. It isn't dead, and I'm glad it's not, but I'd wondered how well these guys could weather the tough times. A posting on the official OLPC Wiki outlines the scope of the damage: about half of the OLPC dev team is getting laid off (approximately 30 people), with the rest taking salary reductions. Most of the in-house effort is now being turned away from ...