{"id":506,"date":"2010-04-19T23:46:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T23:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2010-04-19T23:46:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T23:46:25","slug":"one-laptop-per-child-la-rioja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2010\/04\/one-laptop-per-child-la-rioja\/","title":{"rendered":"One Laptop per Child, La Rioja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m spending a few weeks in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_Rioja_Province_(Argentina)\">La Rioja, Argentina<\/a>, again helping with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laptop.org\">One Laptop per Child<\/a> deployment.<\/p>\n<p>The La Rioja project is interesting for a number of reasons; firstly, it&#8217;s the first large-scale XO deployment in Argentina. Secondly, the scale itself is quite remarkable: each and every one of the 60,000 primary school children in the entire province will receive a laptop. Thirdly, it marks the worldwide debut of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\/go\/XO_1.5\">XO-1.5 laptop<\/a>, the brand new hardware offering from OLPC.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working exclusively with the technical and logistics team and it&#8217;s really impressive to see the work they&#8217;ve already completed. They already prepared an inventory system, selected teams for flashing, infrastructure, software customization, server rollout, and technical support. They produced manuals based on a handful of XOs they had available, and studied the OLPC\/XO\/Sugar documentation religiously. It&#8217;s great to see the project in good hands.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/reactivated.net\/weblog-content\/20100419-larioja.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The first laptops have already arrived, and I&#8217;ll be posting updates in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m spending a few weeks in La Rioja, Argentina, again helping with a One Laptop per Child deployment. The La Rioja project is interesting for a number of reasons; firstly, it&#8217;s the first large-scale XO deployment in Argentina. Secondly, the scale itself is quite remarkable: each and every one of the 60,000 primary school children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo","category-olpc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","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=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}