Exporting from the XO for printing and archiving

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once you have the document on the USB thumb drive, you can go anywhere with it, but it would be nice if you could reproduce it easily. I suggest you Take a Tour of AbiWord: if you don't already have it on your adult machine.

I found that the best way to handle documents exported from the XO for printing, archiving, etc. was to download AbiWord

The word processor on the XO (Write) is a version of AbiWord. The documents can be saved and exported to a USB drive from the Journal. On the first try I took a picture with the XO camera and inserted it into Write and saved it as rtf. Then exported to a USB thumb drive, loaded the rtf to AbiWord that was on my HP laptop and had a document the was full available for edit. AbiWord also can save in MSWord format. i loaded that document in another open source product, Open Office, and had a MSWord compatible document that was fully available for edit. Since I am not an owner of MSWord I cannot speak for those compatablility issues, but suffice it to say that the XO Linux presents no problems with the open source products that are free.

One Laptop per Child (OLPC), Getting Started

One Laptop per Child (OLPC), Getting Started

The fun things the Fredricks Kids will be doing over the next few years.

Activities they will be sharing with friends all over the globe.

How exciting is that?

OLPC News: Education is a Basic Need in the Developing World

OLPC News: Education is a Basic Need in the Developing World

OLPC is About Education

And somebody needs to focus on education in order to break the cycle of poverty. That's us. We need more of us, too. It isn't either/or, it's both/and. It would cost billions of dollars to feed every undernourished child as soon as possible, and the money is not forthcoming from governments or private donors. I wish it were.

For more on OLPC on my blog, Please click here

See what One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is all about - Run it in Windows

Here is the home screen Martin and Saela will see on their machines and 2 children in in as yet unknown developing country will be booting up their machines too.


This screen shot was taken from Grampa's HP Pavillion Laptop. For more information about
Emulating the XO/Quick Start/Windows - OLPC Information
download your own copy. It is Linux. It is free. That's how "open source" software
works. It is the sharing community.


Download the emulator and run it in a Windows window by clicking olpc_qemu_full.zip (210 MB)

More information about the OLPC Give One Get One (G1G1) project. Hurry offer ends Dec 31. While your there check how the OLPC is built around the education model not the commercial model.

OLPC Software and interface

Software and interface:


"GCompris"

First Day to Give one Get one

Go to One Laptop Per Child web site, Please click here to find out more about this charitable project to build a better future.

We are pretty excited about the applications and the child centered approach of the XO laptop.


We think this is a fine way to carry out the tenets Nathan Dungan, a financial educator and president of Share-Save-Spend, an organization that helps people develop healthy financial habits presented in an interview with Krista Tippett on Speaking of Faith, November 8 Click to Listen.

His simple formula - spend a third, save a third, share a third!

November 8, 2007 Speaking of Faith Summary

Many of us are gearing up to spend more money than we actually have for the upcoming holiday season, which has deep roots in religion. We explore the turmoil many of us experience with money in our day-to-day lives — and how we might work towards a moral and practical balance for ourselves and the next generation.

A nice intro to what the XO Sugur is all about