Arrived in Edinburgh on the 29th of July to visit my close friend Anand Kumria. Long 29 hour journey and three planes later, it was good to catch up and stay with Anand, finally catching up after not seeing him for 2months when last in Sydney. Anand Kumria is a fellow Linux / Open source architect, who is currently developing in Python as well as many other things. Anand had mentioned that the Tech Meet-up…
I was lucky enough to be allowed to take an Xo to the May Sydney Drupal meet-up. The Xo came to the May Sydney Drupal User Group meet-up at ABC in Ultimo. I presented a 10min talk on OLPC Australia, and also spoke about the Xo application stack. There was good reception from the crowd and people where keen to see and play with the Xo, and I was more then happy to hand it…
Early flight into Brisbane saw myself and @1and0 leave Sydney at 6:30am… Lisa the Xo was going on her first flight, well the first one since her birth flight from Quanta. The event has been very well organised by Marmalade Soul, held at the University of Queensland on 05/June. There were two tracks set-up, each track tried to aim at a different audience. There was a good number of people who attended and also a…
I was very pleased and humbled to be invited to the One Laptop Per Child Australia Gala night. Have really enjoyed working with the team and seeing behind the scenes and all the hard work that has gone into this event. The night was extra special as Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was able to make it to announce the changes to Tax benefits for OLPC sponsorship program. The night was amazing, a touch above the…
After discussions with Sydney Windows User Group informing them about my plans to test and trial Azure for a CMS solution i had running on Linux, I was informed about http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/ . I was pointed in the direction of Catherine Eibner who was able to answer any questions I had, and yes she also had me signed up. Basically you get Support from Microsoft and also exposure through Start-up promotion websites and access to Microsoft…
So to cut a long story short OLPC Australia project has gone through various formations. Its current formation is to assist 400,000 XO’s across Australia in five years specifically in rural and remote areas. Please see http://www.laptop.org.au/vision/overview I started doing work on this project with Pia and Jeff Waugh on OLPC Friends in 2008. So it was a pleasure for me to take on a role of Project Management and Development for the web solutions…