On 10/18/07, Andrew Clunis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Meadan looks pretty interesting, but their website is pretty light on > information. Will their code be Free Software? What exactly will it > do?
I'm not sure the best way to answer it, so I created a google group and lodged the question there, and anyone is welcome to join, and I can send an email out when I have some answers. The short answer is they want to empower multilingual conversations, they are a non-profit, and I don't really know about the codebase. http://groups.google.com/group/meadan?hl=en (re: mt on xo) > That would rely on a singleton service provider, which might not be a > good approach in the long run. It would be better if the software in > question could be run directly on the XO laptop. Right -- I think there may be a way to do this if it is viewed as an ecosystem. I think there could be some patents and I'd rather try and patent and then develop and situate within a non-profit to protect this for the kids and then work with big fish if they want to play (this is what meadan is doing) -- I'm just concerned that a big fish could be reading the list -- I have no concern about the people themselves -- just the corporate framework, driven by profit -- I actually do love the idea of partnering with corps -- just concerned that if you don't have leverage they might end up forgetting about the kids and not paying attention while they monetize it, etc. -- having said this I could be swayed. I am working my way through wikinomics and trying to grasp the implications and how it could shift my paradigms. In the end I just care about the kids. So that developers don't get entirely annoyed with me perhaps I could trust your judgment and if you think it's cool to converse with reply all - cool -- but if etiquette serves -- perhaps you (or others who might be interested) could join google group and take the conversation off-list -- and if there was some justification then it could become a laptop mailing list. I'm pretty sure SJ is interested in the same underlying machine translation engine for a content management ecosystem and is talking with meadan -- but that's not out on the mesh necessarily -- i'm just particularly interested in the chat too -- because i want kids speaking arabic to be able to chat with kids who speak english
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