oIpcOne Laptop per Child

14 January 2007

Dr. MPS Bhatia

NSIT Training and Placement Officer

Dear Dr. Bhatia

For a second time, I am writing in regard to Manusheel Gupta. Tomorrow is the final day ofManu's second internship at One Laptop per Child (OLPC). I wanted to let you know that onceagain it was a pleasure it has been to have Manu as part of the team. Again, he has beenstudious and imaginative, respectful and thought-provoking, productive and creative-in short,everything I learned to expect from him since first working with him this summer.

Manu's principle task for the month was to project to help software developers upload bundlessoftware for OLPC webserver as part of the,software management process. He has based hiswork on Ramora, a tool used by Mozilla Foundation to manage community contributions.Manu also spent some time fine-tuning xBook, the eBook reader that he worked on lastsummer. It is an integral part of the software distribution for the laptop-quite an achievement.

Manu has begun a new project in the last week of his stay: creating a collection of educationalgames for the laptop. Some of these are ones he will "simply" port to the laptop user interfaceenvironment. One, Deducto, is going to be more challenging, in that Manu will attempt to notjust port the game, but also recraft it in such a way that children can extend it.

Manu has continued his efforts to reach out to the broader community to solicit ideas,feedback, and help in regard to encouraging others to add to our efforts to bring computing tochildren learning throughout the world. He has encouraged the authors of a number of open-source projects to port their projects to the laptop, with remarkable results: two importantprojects for children, Dr. Geo and MTPaint, are bring ported to the laptop thanks to Manu'sefforts and enthusiasm.

Manu will continue work on the game project when he returns to India. We have alreadydiscussed his returning next summer!

Sincerely,

t(h~~~Walter BenderPresident, Software and ContentOne Laptop per Child