OLPC makes it to India
Marc Wiriadisastra
marc at mwiriadi.id.au
Fri Nov 2 12:27:38 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 21:25 +0900, Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> Just thought I would post this reference for Fedora being the base for
> OLPC.
>
> http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/11/olpc-makes-its-entry-into-india-finally.html
>
> When the OLPC first made news, a prominent official in the HRD ministry
> of the Indian government had gone on record snubbing the OLPC project
> ($100 laptop), even making a preposterous claim that work was under way
> to create India's own $10 laptop. But as things have worked out, OLPC
> has already made an entry into India in the form of a pilot project in a
> rural primary school in a village in the state of Maharasthra.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc
>
A bit more info.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Khairat_Chronicle
While I had nothing to do with OLPC I think this is a great news story
for how Fedora has helped bring Linux to more users.
Cheers,
Marc
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