{"id":166,"date":"2008-01-11T16:37:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T16:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/01\/olpc-this-week\/"},"modified":"2008-01-20T11:41:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T11:41:54","slug":"olpc-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/01\/olpc-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"OLPC this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been back in Boston this week, and I spent some time visiting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laptop.org\">OLPC<\/a> offices in Cambridge. People aren&#8217;t joking when they talk about laptops hanging from the ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>Formal testing is a big thing at the moment, so I spent some time helping out testing the upcoming release branches. I also sneaked in a few bug fixes here and there, and managed to solve some irritating interface quirks.<\/p>\n<p>This was my first interaction with the laptops, and I must say, those little XO machines are incredible. I&#8217;m overly impressed on all accounts, especially with the vast level of improvement of the currently-being-finished Update.1 software release over the current stable Ship2 release. There are a number of great people there, from an interesting variety of origins &#8211; mirroring the multicultural aims of the organisation, I suppose. Many thanks to those who helped me fit in and get started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been back in Boston this week, and I spent some time visiting the OLPC offices in Cambridge. People aren&#8217;t joking when they talk about laptops hanging from the ceiling. Formal testing is a big thing at the moment, so I spent some time helping out testing the upcoming release branches. I also sneaked in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo","category-misc","category-olpc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}