You can add one more OS family to the growing list can be conveniently emulated on your favorite green machine:Â Richard Raucci got Mac OS 9 running nicely on his XO, and shows it off online.
Now if only can fix a Mac II emulator so that it runs full-screen, I could hack together a nice More activity for Dave Winer…
… on other blogs. There are a wealth of blogs and news stories out about OLPC and the Lennon spot, and many of them are high-traffic sites reaching an audience that has never thought about the idea and reasons for “one laptop per child” before. Visit a few and help answer the most frequently asked questions (‘why education and not food and water?‘, ‘why a laptop?‘, ‘shouldn’t you start with children in the US?’‘); or help an insightful commenter find our real forums.
Blogs:
|
Dogi reports his public music player was a big success in Berlin over the holidays… reported by bloggers who were there. Other XOphiles making an appearance included /tmplab from Paris, Mako & Mika from the Acetaria, a posse from OLPC Deutschland, and Aaron + Christoph from OLPC Austria.
This year’s Give One, Get One program will be ending (in the US and globally) on midnight, December 31st (PST). Our Simply Give and Give a School programs will continue unchanged, via Amazon and the OLPC website, respectively.
If you have been waiting to sort out matching programs or other details, you can send any last-minute questions to us at giving <at> laptop.org
UPDATE for blog fans only: G1G1 has officially ended, and we changed most links to point to the “Simply Give” page on Amazon at the turn of the year, but the product page will remain up so that those who have already donated can track their orders. If you meant to take part in G1G1, or tried to unsuccessfully, you can still place a new order via the product detail page for a short while longer.
The OLPC group on dailymotion recently crossed 400 child-friendly videos formatted for the XO. This is something neat you can contribute to easily, and pass on links to your XO-laden friends, so pay attention:
Meanwhile, the OLPC video presence online has been growing rapidly elsewhere. The Lennon piece hit 1200,000 views on Youtube (for an ogg version, see Lennon on Dailymotion)– nothing compared to a catchy pop song or a thumbnail with bared skin, but it put us in the top 10 for the day, and has almost doubled the number of subscribers to our channel in 2 days. Nice! A good foundation for amplifying great OLPC videos in the future.  Leave a comment if you have a video you would like us to post.
At last we’ve posted something more popular than the video Shenki made eons ago of an 8- and 10- year old repairing an XO! I still remember tracking down the freely-licensed Jamendo soundtrack at 3am. (90percentofeverything’s original Sugar demo is still the reigning popularity champ.)
The video is being slammed by devoted Lennon fans in the comments and ratings (I can’t remember the last time I saw a front-page video with only two stars), though we are received many enthusiastic private messages. Please rate and comment, however you feel about it.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone!
This has been a long and amazing year. Thanks to support from Yoko Ono, a little digital magic, and some more beautiful animation from TAXI, we have a video message from John Lennon about the power of education to change the world. See for yourself.
And I feel obligated to remind you of these two great videos:
UPDATE: Lennon is now a top-2010 video on Youtube, and the top in many countries… with a lot of media interest in South America and Europe. It is quite a polarizing spot.
UPDATE: Lennon is now, after less than a week, the most popular OLPC video online, eclipsing the Sugar demo and TED clips in total viewership, with almost 1100 comments.
Postscript: I have the full cut of the final G1G1 thank-you video montage, now posted on Dailymotion. Simply beautiful. Thank you to Jason and Michelle for pulling that together.