204 Entries for “Recent Blogs”
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READ MOREMarch 19, 2013 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
Better and Faster OLPC laptops
We are excited about moving to the new XO-4 laptops for upcoming deployments. XO-4 uses power efficient processor based on ARM technology and has expanded storage space. It has the same sturdy design as its predecessors that have earned a reputation for durability and withstood heavy usage by students in rural schools in Nepal.
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READ MOREMarch 19, 2013 | Learning Games Development | OLE Nepal
Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in schools. (Source: Wikipedia) We also got hands on the much acclaimed Raspberry-Pi, thanks to OLE Inc in Cambridge, USA. We have tested to see if we could replace our traditional school server with Raspberry-Pi model B. However, Raspberry Pi couldn’t handle the the task when we loaded our digital library E-Pustakalaya on it. Though the page were browsable, the performance was very slow. We replaced Apache with Nginx and optimized Mysql, but still the CPU power was not powerful enough.
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READ MOREMarch 18, 2013 | Learning Applications Development | OLE Nepal
The New Face of E-Pustakalaya
The E-Pustakalaya development team has changed the overall layout and design of the E-Pustakalaya website to make it more user-friendly. The landing page is now more dynamic and displays featured books based on popularity and other variables that can be changed periodically. It also displays recently added books, which helps users stay updated regarding new additions. The book cover preview makes it easier for users to notice and identify books.
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READ MOREAug. 17, 2012 | Team Reflections | OLE Nepal
Bigger than Ourselves
We are the sleepily-arriving, tea-chugging, email-checking, report-writing, keyboard-pounding, XO-fixing, charger-taping, puzzle-solving, book-hunting-and-scanning, then-editing, now-uploading, hard-at-working, philosophy-phishing, pun-intending, joke-making, wildly-laughing, tummy-growling (guys! lunch?), human-be-ing, lunch-gobbling, second-help-ing, survey-checking, while-burping (eww, Kayo), field-visiting, wiki-updating, fund-hunting, E-Paath recording, NEXO-testing, NEXS-installing, tea-sipping, cable-crimping, router-flashing, Linux-not/liking, blog-writing, work-loving OLE Nepal Interns.
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READ MOREAug. 3, 2012 | Impact Stories | OLE Nepal
Something out of a science fiction
Imagine. A million bits of information hatching into life, fissioning into a billion more, flying across plains, hills and mountains. On arriving at destinations where sometimes no roads, boats or even aeroplanes can reach, every single one of the million bits manage to fall in just the right places to together make identical copies of the shell from which they initially hatched. This process of fission and subsequent fusion is happening even as we speak. These bits are spreading far and wide, creating shells of information that become knowledge for anyone fortunate enough to open them. An education epidemic growing viral far and wide, like something out of a science fiction.