(2007-02-27) OLPC Redhat Google

OLPC talk by RedHat guy (ChrisBlizzard) at Google space

UNDP involved

power

• target 2W draw!
• get 10:1 time on human power
• special chip keeps screen refreshed when CPU in suspend

mesh

• 600m p2p
• can run on its own while in suspend: draw 300mW

rugged

• no moving parts
• internal bumpers
• rubber keyboard
  • diff for each country/language
• total wt 5lbs - lots is battery
• display uses LED, field-replaceable

misc

• built-in camera

SugarUI: Python

• chat integrated into everything: XMPP
• Zooming model: clusters of people
• SqueakSmallTalk still there. Considered it for main stack, but Python gives more access to LinuxOS hooks which made it much faster to develop.
• Journal: kinda like LifeStreams
• apps are called Activity

Write an Activity, get a laptop?