Upstate Carolina Linux Users Group brings Red Hat speaker and the One Laptop Per Child project to Greenville
Greenville, SC - The Upstate Carolina Linux Users Group (UCLUG) is bringing Red Hat community relations manager Greg DeKoenigsberg to its February 13th meeting at the downtown Greenville Public Library beginning at 6:30pm. Greg DeKoenigsberg will be discussing and showing off one of the units from the One Laptop Per Child Program. (OLPC) The program is free and open to the public, and the community is invited to come ask about this education initiative. More about the event can be found at the UCLUG website: http://uclug.org About Red Hat: Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the globe. Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making high-quality, low-cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides an operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, along with applications, management, and middleware solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. About: OLPC: One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organization created by Nicholas Negroponte and other faculty members from the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture and distribute laptop computers that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to acknowledge and modern forms of education. The laptops will be sold to governments and issued to children by schools on a basis of one laptop per child. These machines will be rugged, open source, and so energy efficient that they can be powered by a child manually. Mesh networking will give many machines Internet access from one connection. The pricing goal will start near $100 and then steadily decrease.
If you would like to arrange an interview with Greg DeKoenigsberg please make contact in advance with:
Media Contact:
David Nalley
864.343.0329
http://uclug.org
david at gnsa dot us