A meeting with Nick Negroponte
Amit (Gogna) called me up today to say that Prof. Negroponte will be coming to India in the 1st week of August and that Reliance Communications (ADAG) will be setting up video conferencing around the country on matters of the little green laptop. He has asked me to send him a list of names of the people who can make a difference with the OLPC project in this part of the country.
I’m looking forward to the event to see where OLPC goes from here on.
On a related note, yesterday Kushal had punched in the panic buttons saying the Bijra School’s LTSP system was not working, so I had asked Subhodip and Arindam to do a site visit today and fix the problem. They reported back that it was a dusty and loosely seated RAM problem on the server, which they managed to fix.
Which reminds me that we need to hold a fresh re-orientation workshop at the school soon.
June 27th, 2008 at 2:28 am
simply *wow* about olpc!!
btw, one optiplex (ltsp terminal) is down as you already know. so we will use one of their standalone systems in place of that. another thing is that nizam sir told that the school is due to get two more client terminals from DMC…that will help but don’t know about their specs yet
June 27th, 2008 at 9:11 am
@arindam
try to find out the specs and guide them
June 30th, 2008 at 11:09 am
This is cool!!! Am really eager to see where OLPC is headed … what with all the controversies (team, management, technologies, hardware defects, etc.) and yet coming out with an innovative design for the 2nd gen … I am more a fence sitter currently though I was pretty enthusiastic initially, till the defections started.