I gave a talk on the OLPC XO and sugar. Main point is that sugar is now available on Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora after my talk William talked to the group about bidding for the open source developers conference (OSDC) to take place in Newcastle.

Sugar on Toshiba and XO

Useful links:

• Talk Slides
• OLPC Website
• OLPC Australia
• Getting Access to a XO in Australia
• Australian Deployment of the XO
• Sugar Labs

Stuff on OSDC

• OSDC website
• Newcastle Lug wiki

I did struggle at the end of the meeting to explain to a linux newbie that he doesn’t really want to install a program from source… as he told me linux isn’t as easy as they say it is… I also no nothing about Mandrivia. We also discussed the Linux.conf.au inner circle and that too many of the LCA talks are repeats!