This is a terrific video interview/blog [1] of OLPC's India pilot [2]. 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 [3] in the background.

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The video ends with two short quips by Jimmy Wales [5] of Wikipedia and Jon "maddog" Hall [6] of Linux International [7]. 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 [8].

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