The GNOME Conference 2006 Booklet - GNOME Project Listing

The GNOME Conference
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Keynote:
The One Laptop Per Child Project
($100 Laptop)
The One Laptop Per Child project aspires to enable the
deployment of hundreds of millions of laptop computers for
children's learning, primarily in the developing world. Many
of these machines, by necessity, will be powered by
generators, car batteries, or whatever power source comes
to hand.
This presents challenges to the Gnome community. There is a direct correlation
between accessing memory, and performance and power consumption. Coming at
performance from the view of power is often a very productive way to understand
overall system performance. The OLPC system has a number of novel features to
minimize power use, but your help in the software you develop will make a major
impact in the usability of the OLPC system (and your own desktops).
Similarly, the OLPC machine has a screen which can be used in bright sunlight,
necessary for children in many parts of the world. In one mode, it is a 1200x900 grayscale
display, in the other, a lower resolution color display. This will present challenges
to our user interfaces, which will need to be able to adapt dynamically.
Finally, I argue most of the work needed in Gnome to support the OLPC will be of
benefit to everyone, not just in the OLPC machine.
Jim Gettys
Wed 28 12:00
1. Carpa
Keynote
Jim Gettys is interested in open-source systems for education on very
inexpensive computers. He was previously at HP's Cambridge Research
Lab working on the X Window System with Keith Packard, both on
desktops and embedded systems such as the HP iPAQ. He helped to
start the handhelds.org project and has also contributed to
freedesktop.org efforts. Gettys continues to serve on the X.org
Foundation board of directors and served until 2004 on the Gnome
Foundation board of directors. Gettys worked at W3C from 1995-1999;
he is the editor of the HTTP/1.1 specification (now an IETF Draft Standard). He is one of the
principle authors of the X Window System, edited the HTTP/1.1 specification for the IETF, and one
of the authors of AF, a network transparent audio server system.
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