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Get involved at the first OLPC Techfest in Sydney

8:00AM Sarah Stokely | Back in February, we broke the news that the One Laptop Per Child charity was set to come down under – which was great news for people interested in helping with the development of its uber cool open source laptop, the XO. OLPC Australia has just announced it will host its first OLPC Techfest in Sydney on Sunday, 1 June. It will include demonstrations, workshops about the OLPC hardware and software, and developer tutorials. If you’re at all interested in the OLPC, I strongly recommend you attend this event, as a lot of its very cool features are best demonstrated when you can network a bunch of the machines together, as will no doubt happen at this event.For full details, check out the OLPC website. [via] More »

Coming up on Lifehacker: We review the OLPC XO laptop!

6:35PM Sarah Stokely | I’m pleased to say that while I was at the OLPC love-fest that was Linux.conf.au last week, I managed to snag one of their XO mini-laptops to review. We have two in the household so we’ll be able to test out some of their cool mesh networking capabilities. I’m also keen to see how it stacks up as a mini-laptop compared to the *other* geek toy du jour, the ASUS Eee PC.Watch this space for the full review plus pictures. :) More »