Ubuntu for the One Lap Top Per Child Project
As we all know, the OLPC - One Laptop Per Child project (http://
We already have Edubuntu - while it is targeted at a slightly different yet related audience, many of the primitives are very appropriate.
Some important aspects (not in any order & of course, not a comprehensive list either):
a) Easy to use by children
b) Easy to setup wireless
c) Some form of MANET (Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks)
d) Squeak
e) Collaboration capability (Like ZeroConf et al) - would be nice to see if we can build-in ZeroConf in Squeak
f) Selected capabilities from Edubuntu, simplified, with reduced scope & focused towards children
This is also related to another specification https:/
This actually leads to one of my other passion - Ubuntu in an embedded environment - but that might be a few ways off
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Matt Zimmerman
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Krishna Sankar
- Definition:
- Drafting
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
- Informational
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
-Marking as informational because this is a discussion proposal; if appropriate, please create more specific specs for things which are going to be implemented
-We should also try to grab all the improvements they made that can be of use for Ubuntu (even the ones that were not forwarded to upstream)