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This is a 45min Documentary film Directed by Chiara Sambuchi, produced by ZDF/Arte released by Lavafilm, just aired on the Arte TV channel in France and Germany. I have seen most of all the olpc related videos and documentary films that have been avaiable on the Internet during these past 4 years that I have been updating my video-blog at http://olpc.tv, this may be one of the best, most awesome and most beautiful Documentary films on the olpc project yet made.

French version titled: S’instuire pour 100 dollars:

Stream Flash version for 7 days at: http://plus7.arte.tv/fr/1697660,CmC=3107554.html

Deep-linking Download: WMV or MMS

German version titled: Ein Laptop gegen die Armut:

Stream Flash version for 7 days at: http://plus7.arte.tv/de/1697660,CmC=3107554.html

Deep-linking Download: WMV or MMS

If you are a TV Producer or a Documentary Film Festival organizer, you should contact the makers of the film at http://lavafilm.com/en/p_laptop.html to discuss the broadcast and distribution of this film.

If you understand French or German you should watch it now, before Arte.tv removes it from their website! I hope these links work for olpc fans worldwide. We have to wait for Lavafilm.com to communicate on the eventual availability of the English language version (and without the French or German dubbing on all the English language interviews).

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A l’occasion de l’Atelier BNP-Paribas ‘One Laptop Per Child : plus qu’un ordinateur, une véritable révolution pédagogique!’, Lionel Laské, Président OLPC France présente les ordinateurs XO. 3 Février 2010 (Paris).

This is a video-interview with Walter Bender of Sugar Labs at Netbook World Summit in Paris. Sugar is the Gnu/Linux based OS running in over 1.5 million OLPC XO-1 laptops used by Children around the world. It is the Linux distribution that popularized Linux on Laptop form factors. As I wrote in http://www.olpcnews.com/commentary/impact/olpc_netbook_impact_on_laptop.html the OLPC project has greatly influenced the whole PC/Laptop industry, and with more optimized and streamlined Linux implementations like this new Sugar Linux OS, the influence is only going to be even greater.

Chris Ball, OLPC Lead Software Engineer shows a fully working demonstration of the latest XO 1.5 motherboard fresh from the lab, runing a new faster Sugar Linux OS as well as multi-booting into a full Gnome desktop version of Fedora thanks to the increased storage, processing and RAM, the children will be able to boot a full Linux desktop as well running conventional desktop applications such as Open Office.

Mitch Bradley, OLPC Firmware Lead and President and CTO of FirmWorks and Richard Smith OLPC Director of Embedded Engineering talk about their work in bringing the One Laptop Per Child XO 1.5 motherboard up to fully working for Quanta to switch over the mass manufacturing of OLPC XO laptops to the version 1.5, until OLPC releases the XO 2 based on ARM sometime later when the correct components and software become available.

John Watlington, Vice President Hardware Engineering at One Laptop Per Child, shows us the latest status of the XO 1.5 project at a Hotel room in Taipei where team of hardware and software engineers from OLPC are working with Quanta and others to get the XO 1.5 version released in the next few months.