This is a terrific video interview/blog of OLPC's India pilot. The video is produced by an Indian venture called Tech 2.0 .The video covers the village (called Khairat) itself, the kids, their teacher, their parents and a few cows and chicken thrown in for good measure. The video blog also covers a quick run-through of the hardware and software. In this photo (freeze frame from the video) you can see a happy customer in the foreground and the "bovine" power generator in the background.

 

The video ends with two short quips by Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia and Jon "maddog" Hall of Linux International. Jimmy like the project, but thinks that kids should start with a real computer and real software. Newsflash, Jimmy. It is a real computer and it has real software. You want to see make-believe? Try this one.

Maddog likes the approach as well, but indicates that India needs to do more to improve Internet access. Cannot disagree with that one.