{"id":184,"date":"2008-06-12T02:06:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T02:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2008-06-12T02:27:51","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T02:27:51","slug":"summer-olpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/06\/summer-olpc\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer at OLPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I took my final exam for my BSc Computer Science degree at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.manchester.ac.uk\">The University of Manchester<\/a>, results pending. I was originally planning to graduate with a masters degree a year from now, but because of some political brain-damage at university, I ended up switching to the shorter degree so that I can take up a great opportunity this summer:<\/p>\n<p>Today was my first day of a 14 week internship at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laptop.org\">One Laptop per Child<\/a>, an exciting company producing cool laptops to distribute to children in developing nations with the aim of improving education. I&#8217;m going to be working on aspects of the XO software, starting by helping the efforts to upgrade to Fedora 9 for the v8.2.0 August release.<\/p>\n<p>OLPC is based in Cambridge, MA, USA, and this is my 2nd time in this area. I&#8217;m living in Brookline until September, and then will need to find somewhere else to live for a month.<\/p>\n<p>My plans for after the summer are uncertain. I&#8217;m thinking about hunting for some work in Europe somewhere, I might write more about that nearer the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I took my final exam for my BSc Computer Science degree at The University of Manchester, results pending. I was originally planning to graduate with a masters degree a year from now, but because of some political brain-damage at university, I ended up switching to the shorter degree so that I can take [&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-184","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\/184","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=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}