1. The Merlin Project and Important Aspects of Research Issues for Low Cost Computers 1 st Workshop on Low Cost Laptops and Devices in Brazil Digitalworldforum.eu WP2 Jecel Mattos de Assump ção Jr June 6, 2008
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3. Can there be only one? One Laptop Per Child http://www.laptop.org
4. communities 1970s AI Standard Platform PDP-10 LISP 1970s/80s Unix VAX / 68K C 1970s/80s PC Microsoft BASIC WINTEL Communication Channel ARPAnet Uunet / Internet magazines
5. A Healthy Community OX OX OX OX OX OX OX OX OX OX OX OX OX OX OX OX OX OX OX OX OX OX OX OX OX OX Users Power Users Application Developers System Developers
18. comparison testing Open source content In a few months Since 2005 Since March 2007 yes yes mostly Pay per use ? volunteers
19. comparison Multi cores sharing security groups HydraVM Linux SMP? Viewpoint sync Tea Time Telepathy / Tubes Object extensions Islands Bitfrost
20. Conclusion The children can ’t wait… to have a community we need a standard platform right now pieced together from what exists. Sugar can be that platform. But this approach won ’t take us very far into the future… we need to develop stuff we can control.