Facebookopolis: Micropolis hits Facebook
Micropolis has taken another step online, courtesy of Don Hopkins: It is now available as a Facebook App. Now you can enjoy this fabulous cellular-automatized and open source version of SimCity...
View ArticleRed Hat sponsors RIT student work on XO activities for the Deaf
Red Hat is sponsoring summer POSSE bootcamps (Professors’ Open Source Summer Experience), a brainchild of Mel’s, to introduce students to open source development and projects. Most POSSE projects have...
View ArticleolpcMAP and Map-12.xo
The latest version of the Map activity was released this month, and works smoothly with the XO-1.5 and with openstreetmap or google map data. And olpcMAP has been updated to work with new features of...
View ArticleTuxPaint contest for kids, with Sugary prizes
The Tux Paint dev team last week announced a 2011 summer drawing contest, with prizes including three OLPC XO-1’s, Sugar-on-a-Stick drives, and TuxPaint shirts. Â All children 3-12 are encouraged to...
View ArticleGoGoNews kids’ news activity to ship with Sugar
GoGoNews, a site providing news summaries for kids, is developing an XO activity to showcase their news.  Like the older NewsReader activity, it will offer regular updates from its online feed. Â...
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