Give one. Get one.

As of today, the G1G1 program of OLPC has started. Unfortunately the program is only intended for USA and Canada but there are ways to get them to Europe (and elsewhere) so I may just have to order one (for Eowyn of course). $400 is only about 2500 SEK so it's definitely worth it even if the shipping will cost loads.

F/OSS Pentago?

As I've mentioned previously I'm interested in donating my pygame implementation of Pentago to OLPC. However, I want MindTwister (the company behind the game) to back it up, so most of last week (and this week) I've played the part of F/OSS Advocate.

I've suggested a dual-licensing scheme for them. Similar to what MySQL is using. And I've agreed to donate all of my Pentago related code to them provided that they also release it as GPL.

I really hope that they will decide in favor of it. I honestly believe that opening up is the best way forward. Of course, doing so will lead to lots and lots more work in building a community but that's the fun part...

One Laptop Per Child - OLPC

I think OLPC is a really, really cool project.

I've been following it from a safe distance for some time and I was quite pleased when they decided to build the software platform around Free and Open Source Software and especially that they decided to use Python as part of the foundation for Sugar (their Human Interface).

Yesterday I decided to download and install the Emulator and the bits and pieces missing on my computer to get a working SDK. There are lots of ideas for projects on the developer's wiki but I'm thinking that I'll try to port my Pentago game and AI player first. It was written using PyGame which is, among a lot of other projects, being ported at the moment. Hopefully it will work out of the box.