OLPC and Ubuntu at Software Freedom Day 2008 – NCC, Quezon City, Philippines
After Ubuntu Love Day Manila 2008, I thought it would be interesting to take the back seat and do something light as a follow-up and still get in touch with the community. It was also good timing on my part as I got sick for a week (after Ubuntu Love Day) and got swamped with work when I went back. I’ve gotten myself involved lately with grassroots efforts for One Laptop per Child (OLPC) in my community and it is at the early stages of being formalized so I thought this coming Software Freedom Day celebration in my city would be a good place to re-introduce OLPC project, the XO-1 laptop, and even show how we can run Ubuntu with the XO-1 to provide a different computing environment. I asked my friend Rowen Remis Iral of OLPCPH to join as well. There’s also a good chance I’ll be able to get some suggestions to be able to fix the B2-1 unit that I accidentally upgraded (not bricked) weeks ago.
I approached Magie Antonio of Bluepoint Foundation if this was feasible and approved of the idea the same day we chatted about it online. So far we got 4 XO-1 machines as demo units and I’ll also bring my HP Mininote 2133 running 8.04 LTS. Too bad the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 won’t be on sale till next month so I guess that will have to wait.
So if you’re in Quezon City and not doing anything on September 20 and want to check out the OLPC XO-1 with Ubuntu running and even learn some stuff about Free/Open Source Software, join us at the National Computing Center in Quezon City! You can read more about the event at http://bluepoint.com.ph/sfd08
There is also a celebration happening at the same day in Makati City at the University of Makati if Quezon City is too far from your place. Unfortunately, I’m not going there.
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