Presentation by Jim Gettys at FOSDEM 2007 about One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project given on Saturday February 24th, 2007 (video, ogg, 246Mb).
This is interesting video from both hardware/software and social perspectives. And when I’m saying social, I don’t only mean charity point of view, which is important for us to always keep in mind, but also it’s important to understand that social aspects of such projects can be very important factors in defining technical side of things.
At the very end of the speech, Jim is saying thank you to all Open Source developers for their work over many years without which OLPC would not be possible. And in my view, that’s a side of Open Source that is quite often forgotten behind the hype of free (as beer) software or killing Microsoft dominance - it’s about greater good that this movement is bringing to the world, next step in evolution of thinking.
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May 28th, 2007 at 3:32 am
The link you give for the video points too “Thanks for visiting FOSDEM 2007″. It should be: http://video.fosdem.org/2007/FOSDEM2007-OLPC.ogg
June 2nd, 2007 at 11:43 am
Thank you, Philip! I updated the post.
November 22nd, 2007 at 9:03 am
It is still pointing to the old link.
November 26th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Changed one link but not another - fixed now.
I also added it to TechPresentations.org.