olpc July 2008

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[Fedora-olpc-list] Hello from Mike Shaw!
by Mike Shaw 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

Hi Everyone, My name is Mike Shaw and I'm currently an "OLPC Support Gang" volunteer. I have an XO to test with and am interested in helping. l8r, Mike -- Ed: This is worse than when he was just stupid! - from "Sitting Ducks"

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[Fedora-olpc-list] introduction
by Tomeu Vizoso 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

Hi all, I'm an OLPC contractor working on Sugar since Oct 2006. I'm pretty excited by Greg's initiative and would love to answer any questions you may have it. Regards, Tomeu

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[Fedora-olpc-list] Introduction
by Edward Cherlin 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

One of the aims of OLPC is a billion children who know their way around Smalltalk and Python, and a smaller but still quite extensive group who understand Linux and Open FirmWare well enough to contribute. And then another billion in the decade following, and so on until there isn't anybody else left. When we get $75 laptops, as promised by OLPC and Pixel Qi, this plus electricity and Internet for all will cost the world about $25 billion annually. Peanuts compared with converting to renewable energy, or any given war, and capable of creating trillions of dollars in new economic activity. And breaking the Microsoft monopoly. In addition to software, I work on whatever management at OLPC and Sugar Labs has no process for. This includes * Creating Pootle projects for announced target countries (Haiti and Cambodia) * Recruiting localizers * Documentation * Reaching out to communities outside development * Language and writing system design and QA * Getting engineers to work on electricity and Internet for villages with microfinance support * Making contact with Obama's campaign advisers * Involving the community in the sales process * Creating a walled garden for schoolchildren to link up around the world * Teacher training * Curriculum redesign * Rethinking textbooks to use available software and knowledge about how children learn * Gathering information on Constructivism and Constructionism, and on successes or failures in OLPC programs * You tell me: What have you been wishing someone would do, but management isn't listening? Please let your friends know that we need help on all of these and more, from all of society worldwide. On development, we need help getting Sugar packages into stock Fedora and Red Hat, and in moving OLPC innovations upstream. We have much infrastructure (Glucose) and dozens of Activities (Fructose) with oodles of bugs. We need virtual machine images for those who run other Linuces, BSDs, and whatever. -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay

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[Fedora-olpc-list] Intro
by Paul W. Frields 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

My daughter has a OLPC XO, so I plan to lurk here and see if there's any low hanging fruit I can help with. I hope one day to pick up an XO of my own. ;-) -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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[Fedora-olpc-list] An introduction
by Harish Pillay 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

Hi. I am Harish Pillay, based in Singapore and working at Red Hat Asia Pacific HQ, also based in Singapore. I have been a user, participant and contributor in many areas within the FOSS space since about 1986 ("open source" was not coined until 1998). I helped set up the Linux Users' Group (Singapore) back in 1993 and have organized 3 conferences (Singapore Linux Conference) in 1999, 2000 and 2001. I have not acquired an XO myself (if I did, I would need atleast 2 - for my 2 sons), but I would like to make sure that educational opportunities and frameworks are expanded using the OLPC model and hence my signing up to this list. Let's make a difference! -- Harish Pillay 9v1hp hpillay(a)redhat.com +65.9636.9253 gpg id: 746809E3 gpg fingerprint: F7F5 5CCD 25B9 FC25 303E 3DA2 0F80 27DB 7468 09E3

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[Fedora-olpc-list] Introduction - David Farning
by David Farning 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

Greg, thanks for taking this project on. I am David Farning, most places known as dfarning. I originally became involved in OLPC when I got my niece, a fifth grader, an XO for Christmas last year. It has started her on a fascinating journey of discovery. She has become active on wikipedia. As she struggled to get flash working, she became familiar with the command line. Last week I saw her ping google.com when the network connection on her parent's computer went down:) My personal interest is developing a community around the Sugar Learning Environment. In the short term, I will be working on engaging the distributions and increasing Sugar's profile in Open Source Education groups. Thanks dfarning

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[Fedora-olpc-list] Introducing Rui
by Rui Miguel Silva Seabra 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

Hello, About a month ago my OLPC XO arrived. I've been slowly trying to get used to it in order to be more helpful in the future. I'd like to help as much as I can. Best, Rui -- Or not. Today is Boomtime, the 56th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?

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[Fedora-olpc-list] First message
by Greg DeKoenigsberg 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

Welcome to the mailing list for the Fedora OLPC SIG. May it have a long and productive life. Our home on the internet: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC --g

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