Long before the Peruvian Government officially announced it, many in the local free software communities were in touch with colaborators of the OLPC project (One Laptop Per Child).

A few days ago Antonio Ognio told me the founder of LinuxChile, Eduardo Silva, was visiting Lima to talk us about the project. Eduardo will offer his keynote this Monday, July 2, at 7pm in Jr. Junín 355, Miraflores.

I'd like to invite all my readers to go and publish their pictures and comments about the event and the project.

The OLPC's use Linux, actually a flavour of Fedora, and I'm sure it will be great to see and, if possible, touch, one.

Even if I don't trust much in the government to get the best of the OLPC's for Peruvian children, it's quite important knowing more about these laptops and their potential. Even more now that there are rumours of a commercial version for 2008, also manufactured by Taiwan's Quanta. I'm sure many of us would like one of these toys, if we can call them toys, for our kids.

To know more visit the the note at PLUG's site.

"We are a free and open source shop. We have no one from OLPC working with Microsoft on developing a Windows platform for the XO. MS doesn't get any special treatment from OLPC."

That's what Walter Bender, president of Software and Content at OLPC, told to Ken Fisher at Ars Technica.

They really scared us, uh?