The Ginkgo Biloba is the oldest living tree species. In the Plant Kingdom (scientific classification of all living things), the Ginkgo is classified in its own division, the Ginkgophyta, consisting of the single class Ginkgoopsida, order Ginkgoales, family Ginkgoaceae, genus Ginkgo and is the only surviving species within this group. A single tree can live as long as 1,000 years and grow to a height of 120 feet. We brought a seedling from France and planted it on the banks of the Allegheny River in northwestern Pennsylvania in 1996.

As of July 2008, our Ginkgo is doing well.

This past week we were able to open the Bounty System on power2people. We started with AROS bounties and are now adding a few GNU Linux projects.
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Can you recognize the track?

It was a fun moment to run around the track at Panathinaiko Stadium. We did it together. Since ancient times olympic events have been hosted on the site. The modern Olympics began there in 1896. More recently, the marathon ended there in the 2004 Games. The Stadium was featured on all of the 2004 Summer Olympic medals, and will be continued to be featured on the medals soon to be awarded in Beijing.
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AROS Support added at power2people

With the launch of the AROS bounty support on power2people we have raised the EFIKA port bounty to over $3000.

The Community is the Computer - a Super Computer.
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That is the title of the article in the New York Times. Just in case you missed it here is a link to the article:

Smaller PCs Cause Worry for Industry

The personal computer industry is poised to sell tens of millions of small, energy-efficient Internet-centric devices. Curiously, some of the biggest companies in the business consider this bad news...

We have been at this a long time. It is good to see all this coming together. Why not stick around? It is about to get fun.
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PowerDev Meeting #4 is now scheduled for 23-24 August in Prague. The Event has been included on the Freescale Training Event Schedule.

Lukáš Stehlík and the Czech Pegasos User Group are organizing the Event

The concept behind the logo is that each gear symbolizes an individual visitor or developer. If you put the gears together, that is people meeting people, a certain dynamic is achieved. There is energy and productivity - in short, you create Power.
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The average distance between the Earth and Moon

is about 248,000 miles or 400,000 km.

We took that picture through a telescope.

We wrote this blog just before the EFIKA launch (it is still valid!):

And Hello to YOU!

28 November 2006

HelloWorld\com\genesi\portlets\blog

HelloWorld\bbrv

HelloWorld\bbrv\lib

OK, then...
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Yes, it sounds like SceneCon was a big success. There was plenty of interest in MorphOS 2.0 and we demonstrated a beta of a Power Architecture native Flash plugin on MPC5200B, MPC5121e and MPC8610 based systems running SUSE 11.0 (SUSE/Genesi).

In the meanwhile, me.com and the iPhone 2 were launched

Photo by Engadget

Oh me, oh my, no one seems to mind the lack of Flash support on the iPhone.
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...and PowerDev Meeting #3

First, thanks for all of the positive responses to yesterday's post (Operation Crossroads Africa). It has been overwhelming. Thank you. The international Community of Developers and Users that are interested makes us feel very much part of a community.

With that in mind, please don't hesitate to stop by SceneCon if you are in Budapest this weekend.
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It has been nearly thirty years since we worked on building this school near Kitale, Kenya. The Project was organized by Operation Crossroads Africa.

Clearing the floor of the new school building

Behind the students, you can see the wall going up

We had to make the building blocks too

Last month, Operation Crossroads Africa celebrated its 50th Anniversary. It is a great organization. You learn as much about yourself as you do about the people you meet.

Menkaure, also known as Mycerinus, ruled from 2490 - 2472 B.C. Menkaure built the third and smallest of the three great Pyramids at Giza. The top of this Pyramid is just over 200 feet from the ground. Climbing to that height takes some effort.

The Queens' Pyramids (G 3a only partially shown)

Looking back toward Cairo

Did you know that almost all sand contains silica?

The contrast between the thriving metropolis of Cairo and the apparent emptiness of the desert is impossible to miss.
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