One Laptop per Child (at FOSDEM 2007)

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Presenter(s):	Jim Gettys, OLPC
Where:	FOSDEM 2007 (description)
When:	February 24, 2007
Topics:	One Laptop per Child, Hardware, Open Source
Video:	OGG Video

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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.