El dom, 25-06-2006 a las 19:10 +0200, Knut Yrvin escribió: > First of all I'm sorry to cross-post this request. But I need urgent > reply to know if somebody wants to team up in a project making Debian > ready for the One Laptop per Child hardware. If there is somebody > interested applying for OLPC developer board to make things work, > please reply to debian-custom@lists.debian.org. > > My project proposal: > > After a tip from Walter Bender at MIT, I was subscribing to the > devel-boards list for the One Laptop per Child project. Walter is > president, software and content, of the One Laptop per Child > foundation. > > My subscription was forwarded to the list moderator for approval. Then > i got a nice e-mail from Jim Gettys. He wrote that if my interest in > the list is to get a developer's board, then please follow the > following instructions (look at the bootom): > > http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php/Developers_Program > > This will result in a developer's board if the request is at all > reasonable, and you will be added to the mailing list (which is meant > to be low volume announcements for people with boards). > > I wrote some suggestions for a plan to get the OLPC-machine up running > April 5th 2006: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2006/04/msg00016.html > > So people, I could apply for boards to realize this plan. (The plan is > not at all finale, but a suggestion): > > 1. To make the Debian installer work with OLPC-machines > 2. To make bare bone Debian run with network connectivety in a mesh > network (IPv6) > 3. Make the power management work > 4. To make X and a window manager with simplified debloated desktop > > But with no developers interested doing the development, I see no > reason for applying for boards. So it depends on what the Debian Edu > and Debian contributers are interested in. > > It's a considerable job tailoring the different subsystem in Debian to > OLPC hardware. The installer has to be tailored, the network mesh net > support has to work, simplified debloated desktop has to be configured, > and the power management has to work. > > We have done interesting things with Custom Debian Distributions and > Debian Installer in the Skolelinux / Debian Edu environment before. It > seems to me that more people have joined the Skolelinux / Debian Edu > project. I believe the One Laptop per Child is important for Debian, > and we should do this development. > > - What do you think about this suggestions? > > - Who are interested to develop tailored Debian Edu for > OLPC-machines? > Hi, Knut At LinEx we have interest in this project, next Friday I'll have a meeting with Jim Getty and will get more information to know if it makes sense for us to work on it. I think we could collaborate in points 1 & 4, as we have experience in working with installers, and we have begun the project Futura[1][2] thinking in the obsolescence of the computers we have at our schools. Even if our hardware requirements are still far from the OLPC machines, I think the same developments could apply pretty easily. Regards, José L. Redrejo [1] http://guadec.org/node/420 [2] http://forjamari.linex.org/docman/view.php/54/37/futura.pdf
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