On 6/20/07, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
Message: 1 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:31:57 -0700 From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [909linux] FYI: the OCPL project / Peru To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <118501c7b358$857e9d70$0502a...@donnas> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I sent the following message out to the LUGIE list just now and Randall Whitman suggested I also post it here - Donna. Hi All, Some of you have expressed an interest in the "One Laptop Per Child" project being spearheaded by Nicholas Negroponte, fromerly the head of the Media Lab at MIT. As some of you know, I am the founder of the Hawthorne Center (located behind my house in the Fontana area) and am supporting several projects - such as building a robotics interface - being developed by Ben Cooper in Squeak, a free version of Smalltak - the pure OOP language first developed by Alan Kay in the 70s-80s. For the last 5(?) years Alan has been intimately involved with Negroponte in developing the OLPC project. Particularly, he has been working to have his baby - EToys - ported to this machine. Go to www.squeakland.org to read more about EToys. The following message was just sent to the Squeak Smalltalk Developers list by Alan Kay: Hi Folks -- Peru is starting to show a lot of interest in the OLPC project and (because Squeak and EToys run on the OLPC XO) Nicholas has asked me if we know of any Peruvian Squeakers (or South American Squeakers who might be interested in visiting Peru). ???? Cheers, Alan ==================== If anyone wants to get more info/ know more about Squeak, get back to me and I will take it from there. Thanks, Donna 909-350-0311 [email protected] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://909linux.org/pipermail/909linux/attachments/20070620/9d352841/attachment.html ------------------------------
I am not a "squeaker", but one of the (many) things in my agenda for my December visit to Peru is to get in touch with some local Linux groups in Lima and try to see what the landscape is like. I have been thinking about setting up a peruvian non-profit org to improve local schools... I tried sending many e-mail to the OPC ppl about2 years ago (when it was hot in the press) but I never received any response from them. - Ragi
