'Til All Are One

• moved to new flat, bought fur­niture and appli­ances, set up util­it­ies, got engaged, enrolled at uni, went to jury ser­vice… all in 2 weeks! #
• $11.7m for OLPC Aus­tralia in the fed­eral govt budget! Huzzah! http://t.co/zgmqAnMP #

• Music was bet­ter back when it was per­formed by tal­en­ted people who could write, play and sing. #
• Why raise some­thing in con­ver­sa­tion if you _don’t_ want to talk about it? #
• Bom­barded with pop/​urban/​rap music clips. I knew that the industry was myso­gyn­istic, but OMG there is some­thing ser­i­ously wrong with soci­ety #
• I don’t want to see your under­wear. Please for the love of god pull up your trousers. #
• We’re selling out our chil­dren
  http://t.co/tdyHVyzN #

• “Love is like a lost fart, if you have to force it. It’s prob­ably shit.” — Stephen K. Amos, Mel­bourne Inter­na­tional Com­edy Fest­ival #

Release Can­did­ate 2 of the 2012 OLPC Aus­tralia oper­at­ing sys­tem, XO-​​AU OS 12, has been released. We hope to make a final release in two weeks, in time for the start of term 2 of school in Queens­land and North­ern Territory.

To get star­ted, visit our release notes page.

Installing the Release Can­did­ate is no dif­fer­ent from installing the XO-​​AU USB 3 stable release: extract the zip file to a USB stick and you’re ready to go.

The “What’s New” sec­tion out­lines the changes in this release.

To provide feed­back, please join our tech­nical mail­ing list.

Fol­low­ing this, you can send your com­ments or ask ques­tions on the list. The OLPC Aus­tralia Engin­eer­ing team are act­ive par­ti­cipants on this list, and we will reply. Remem­ber, the bet­ter you can help us with qual­ity inform­a­tion, the bet­ter we can make the product for you

• Great work Chan­nel 11 for but­cher­ing Team Amer­ica to the point where it made no sense #

• A slash is not a back­slash! How dif­fi­cult can it be??? #

Edi­tion 9 of the OLPC Aus­tralia Edu­ca­tion News­let­ter is now available.

In this edi­tion, we provide a few classroom ideas for math­em­at­ics, pro­file the Jig­saw activ­ity, de-​​mystify the Home views in Sugar and hear about the OLPC jour­ney of Gir­raween Primary School.

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Under­pin­ning the OLPC Aus­tralia edu­ca­tion pro­gramme is a cache of train­ing resources. In addi­tion to our Online Course and Learner Manual, we have a set of help videos, hos­ted on our Vimeo chan­nel. I have updated the OLPC Dis­as­sembly instruc­tions for the top and bot­tom of the XO with links to the videos.

• Funny things kids say: http://t.co/bboiN5rd #
• Laptops improv­ing school attend­ance on Palm Island http://t.co/fqKniq54 #olp­cau #olpc #

Edi­tions 7 and 8 of the OLPC Aus­tralia Edu­ca­tion News­let­ter have come out in the past few weeks. In each edi­tion, we will provide news, tips and tricks and stor­ies from the field.

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