Comments on: Addis Ababa, week 1

By: BuzzMoo.com » Blog Archive » Update from Ethiopia

BuzzMoo.com » Blog Archive » Update from Ethiopia — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:37:37 +0000

[...] for the past half a month working on that country’s first OLPC XO deployment. He now has a great series of posts covering his (continuing) time there, full of impressions, insights and photos. Some interesting [...]

By: dsd’s weblog » Blog Archive » Ethiopia’s second OLPC deployment

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:14:53 +0000

[...] a school in Addis Ababa. The school itself is similar to another local school that I wrote about in my first week, although smaller (approximately 1000 students, rather than [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:32:58 +0000

If you’re honest you’d also realize that there are many things these people could do to improve said school themselves. Clean it would be a good start.

By the look of their clothes I seriously doubt their appartments lack a tv.

By: Daniel Drake

Daniel Drake — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:22:08 +0000

I’m using broadband, I think. At both the hotel and office I have an ethernet connection to the internet. so I don’t know about dialup.

Email me nearer the time and we’ll meet.

By: disa

disa — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:07:26 +0000

Hi,
I wanted to ask you how do you connect in ethiopia on the ETC’s dialup with linux, as my last attempt on may this year failed with some “loopback detected” error.
Anyway, it’s true that they start counting the time at 6am!! and that it’s 2001!so weird :-D
(I’ll be in Ethiopia next week (from mon 29 sep) to setup a gentoo server in our addis’ office, and I’d realy like to se the XO developement! or maybe just have a beer :-)