{"id":1746,"date":"2009-01-08T12:27:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T12:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2009-01-08T12:27:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T12:27:11","slug":"olpc-cutting-way-back-to-birth-the-xo2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1746","title":{"rendered":"OLPC cutting way back to birth the XO2."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"totq_illustration\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/images\/journal\/xo2.jpg\" alt=\"XO2\" width=\"150\" height=\"144\"><\/div>\n<p>Courtesy of my friend and coworker <a href=\"http:\/\/fungibleconvictions.com\/\">Andrew<\/a> comes the news that Nicholas Negroponte&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/laptop.org\/en\/\">One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) group<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20090107-olpc-downsizes-half-of-its-staff-cuts-sugar-development.html\">laying off half its staff, slashing salaries and ceasing its support of Sugar, the XO&#8217;s open-source OS<\/a> to focus on finishing development of its second-generation XO laptop, the (presumably-titled) XO2.<br \/>\nWhile I&#8217;m definitely troubled to see these steps being taken, I&#8217;m also secretly somewhat gladdened. This news is <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20080520-olpc-2-0-coming-will-project-survive-to-see-its-launch.html\">long time coming<\/a>, and to deploy a very geeky metaphor, it feels sort of like the scene in <i>The Dark Knight<\/i> when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wPnZbqr_kvM\">the Batpod is launched out of the ruined Batmobile<\/a> (although the idea of Negroponte as Bruce Wayne is a little disturbing).  With luck, the slimmer, nimbler OLPC group will be able to get the XO2 to market, which I&#8217;ve long maintained is the closest thing to a perfect e-book reader that I&#8217;ve seen yet.<br \/>\n<font color=\"#666666\"><i>(Update: yes, the XO2, not the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F-302#F-302\">X-302<\/a>.  Although that would be <strong>awesome.<\/strong>)<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of my friend and coworker Andrew comes the news that Nicholas Negroponte&#8217;s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) group is laying off half its staff, slashing salaries and ceasing its support of Sugar, the XO&#8217;s open-source OS to focus on finishing development of its second-generation XO laptop, the (presumably-titled) XO2. While I&#8217;m definitely troubled to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-publishing","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-sa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}