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Code for A Cause - OLPC Hackathon is a week long programming contest to develop sofware for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) platform.

Sponsored by USC ACM and USC Students for Free Culture, the event takes place at the University of Southern California between April 12 and April 20, 2008.

The OLPC is the famed "$100 laptop" that is being sent to the world's poorest children to give them a chance for education. In the OLPC Hackathon, teams of USC students will design open-source software that can be used on the OLPC laptops being distributed worldwide.

For more information, come to our information session on April 9. To keep on the news, please register.

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Second Code for a Cause Announced
Sunday, March 23, 2008

Inspired by the success of SS.12, USC ACM and USC Students for Free Culture are proud to announce the second installment of the Code for A Cause series.

"The Code For A Cause - OLPC Hackathon" takes place from April 12 to April 20 and allows students to develop software for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) platform.