OSEL Blog

The Open Source Lab is engaging the One Laptop Per Child community by donating the time of a student developer. Starting next week Justin Gallardo’s full-time job will be making OLPC even better. For those unfamiliar with the OLPC project it aims to create a low cost laptop for students in developing countries. A few weeks before this announcement Justin had spent a weekend to finish a port of Abiword, a word processor, to the laptop. In the future Justin will be working to finish up the OLPC development board cluster hosted at the OSL and working with Red Hat’s team to create new activities for the platform.

Tux met some new friends (in this case, the women of Kappa Kappa Gamma), while representing LUG and the OSEL at the Beaver Community Fair, September 29, 2006. The folks manning the LUG table (which included representation from OSEL) also talked with many interested students. You can see more pictures on the LUG web site. Looks like the start of a good year.