1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:19,080 Who are you? 2 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:23,440 So my name is Chris Blizzard, I am the lead for One Lap Copperchild inside of Red Hat 3 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:28,240 and we're here inside of One Cambridge Center which is located right in the middle of Kendall 4 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,600 Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 5 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,840 Really this is sort of the heart of One Lap Copperchild, this is where everybody comes 6 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:39,240 together to meet, this is where we have our country meetings, it's where a lot of the 7 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:45,040 software developers work and practically live, it's really the heartbeat of the organization 8 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:46,040 I think. 9 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:54,320 The goal of One Lap Copperchild is to use a laptop as a vehicle to transform education 10 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:55,320 in the developing world. 11 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:01,120 The vehicle is a $100 laptop because if you can get the price down to $100, all of a sudden 12 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:09,120 you hit the textbook budget of your average developing world country. 13 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:14,880 People said we couldn't do it and in record time we got these, we didn't just get prototypes 14 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:18,320 out the door, we got these things and machines and actually working. 15 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:22,440 My name is John Palmieri, people know me as J5 in Red Hat. 16 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:27,240 I work on the LPC team and I am the build master. 17 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:31,040 You know it's funny, I haven't seen anybody who doesn't gravitate towards this machine. 18 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:35,480 It takes a little bit of the pain out of travel because you always have such a fun time going 19 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:39,720 through security lines at the airport, taking out your laptop, so you take out a half a 20 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:44,840 dozen of these little green machines and people are saying, that's a $100 laptop, I mean they 21 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:46,480 pretty much recognize it now. 22 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:52,400 My name is still Walter Bender and I work at One Lap Copperchild. 23 00:01:52,400 --> 00:02:00,600 I guess my official title is President of Software and Content, whatever that means. 24 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:07,120 Can we transplant the culture of open source software development, which is all about collaboration, 25 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:14,240 critique, and the tools of collaboration and critique as well, and get the education industry 26 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,160 to adopt them. 27 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:22,800 The design of the laptops is a really interesting project because, well, it is geared towards 28 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:26,720 a lot of individuals who haven't had experience working with computers. 29 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:31,680 It's also designed in such a way that trying to do a lot of new things that haven't really 30 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:32,680 been done before. 31 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,680 Hi, I'm Eben Eliasson. 32 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:39,860 I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with theories in art and computer science. 33 00:02:39,860 --> 00:02:47,180 I began in New York working with the Pentagram design team, where I worked on UI design and 34 00:02:47,180 --> 00:02:49,500 some interaction design for the laptops. 35 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:54,140 So I'm trying to persuade my other half that they're like shoes, and I should be allowed 36 00:02:54,140 --> 00:02:59,380 as many computers in the house as she has pairs of shoes, but it's a tough sell. 37 00:02:59,380 --> 00:03:00,380 I'm Dave Woodhouse. 38 00:03:00,380 --> 00:03:05,060 I work for Red Hat on the RPC project. 39 00:03:05,060 --> 00:03:09,540 I was transferred on the project a year and a half, two years ago, I think. 40 00:03:09,540 --> 00:03:14,980 I spend a lot of time working directly with the hardware guys and making sure everything 41 00:03:14,980 --> 00:03:24,260 works, making sure the physical things work, the screen and the keyboard and the battery 42 00:03:24,260 --> 00:03:25,860 charging and everything like that. 43 00:03:25,860 --> 00:03:34,060 I remember one large computer manufacturer early on looked at my design, and he said, 44 00:03:34,060 --> 00:03:39,340 this requires 20 or 30 miracles, and our rule here is one miracle per product. 45 00:03:39,340 --> 00:03:43,820 And good luck, but we think you need to be more realistic. 46 00:03:43,820 --> 00:03:45,180 I'm Mary Lou Jepson. 47 00:03:45,180 --> 00:03:52,540 I've been working at One Laptop per Child for two years and a little longer, and I am 48 00:03:52,540 --> 00:03:54,940 the chief technology officer. 49 00:03:54,940 --> 00:03:55,940 They're absolutely right. 50 00:03:55,940 --> 00:03:57,500 One miracle per product. 51 00:03:57,500 --> 00:03:59,940 What's different is this isn't a product. 52 00:03:59,940 --> 00:04:01,060 It's not a product at all. 53 00:04:01,060 --> 00:04:06,220 It's a global humanitarian cause, and we're just able to mobilize people in a different 54 00:04:06,220 --> 00:04:07,220 way. 55 00:04:07,220 --> 00:04:09,820 One Laptop sort of represents a blank slate. 56 00:04:09,820 --> 00:04:14,540 You've got millions of users who don't have any backwards compatibility needs. 57 00:04:14,540 --> 00:04:18,420 They don't have any preexisting notions of how computers are supposed to work, and so 58 00:04:18,420 --> 00:04:19,900 you can start new. 59 00:04:19,900 --> 00:04:20,900 My name is Owen Williams. 60 00:04:20,900 --> 00:04:25,620 I'm a volunteer for the OLPC project. 61 00:04:25,620 --> 00:04:32,580 I work on Penguin TV, which is a news feed reader, and I also do some work on the user 62 00:04:32,580 --> 00:04:34,780 interface in general. 63 00:04:34,780 --> 00:04:41,140 I like to imagine poor children using it, and having a tool to get out of, to have more 64 00:04:41,140 --> 00:04:45,300 opportunities that they don't often have. 65 00:04:45,300 --> 00:04:53,500 And so it's a great, it's a wonderful thing to imagine, and I hope that it comes to truth. 66 00:04:53,940 --> 00:04:59,660 Hi, my name is Marcelo Tosachi, and I work for, I live in Brazil, and I work for Red 67 00:04:59,660 --> 00:05:00,660 Hat. 68 00:05:00,660 --> 00:05:09,700 I have been working in the project for six, seven months, and I am developing the driver 69 00:05:09,700 --> 00:05:13,900 for the wireless interface, and working on the mesh networking. 70 00:05:13,900 --> 00:05:17,820 You know, normally the concept of giving kids computers is sort of, you set up a computer 71 00:05:17,820 --> 00:05:23,300 lab with a bunch of Windows machines, and sort of leave it at that. 72 00:05:23,300 --> 00:05:28,380 You know, there's just so many really interesting problems, things like not having reliable 73 00:05:28,380 --> 00:05:35,500 sources of electricity, or not having reliable internet infrastructure, and you know, at 74 00:05:35,500 --> 00:05:40,020 the end of the day, it means that millions and millions of kids are going to get access 75 00:05:40,020 --> 00:05:45,220 to knowledge and tools that they never could have had before.