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On Feb 5, 2008 7:36 AM, Joshua Waitzkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Edward, Many thanks for following up. Jack Hidary told me about this > program over dinner a couple weeks ago. I think it is just wonderful and I > will be thrilled to help. Question--would you prefer to have an audio or > text version of my book? We'll make it happen either way. Both, in fact. See http://www.olpcnews.com/content/ebooks/effective_adult_literacy_program.html for one major reason. > Also, how much memory is on the computers? 256 MB RAM, 1G flash storage http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware > I can try to have Ubisoft donate versions of > Chessmaster so the children can play chess as well. Outstanding. > I greatly look forward > to combining forces. Yours, Josh > > > On Feb 5, 2008 5:53 AM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We spoke last week when you were on Forum with Michael Krasny. I asked > > about licensing The Art of Learning for use on the One Laptop Per > > Child XO computer in developing countries. We would want to work out a > > license for free distribution to poor students in developing > > countries, without disturbing your copyright and sales in richer > > countries. We would also want permission for people in developing > > countries to create their own translations, in the same way the XO > > laptop software is localized, and other content translated. See, for > > example, > > > > http://dev.laptop.org/translate/ for software > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Translators for books and other content > > > > The educational philosophy of the Laptop project, called > > Constructionism, emphasizes learning by doing and collaborative > > discovery. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Constructionism The XO software > > supports multiple users writing in the same document (with separate > > cursor for each), drawing together, playing music together, playing > > games, and so on. > > > > The countries where XO laptops are currently being deployed are > > Uruguay, Peru, Haiti, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, and > > Mongolia. Birmingham, Alabama has ordered 15,000 XOs for its public > > schools. Languages needed in addition to English thus include Spanish, > > French, Haitian Creole French, Kinyarwanda, Amharic, Tigrinya, Khmer, > > Dari, Pashto, Hazaragi, and Mongolian. See http://www.ethnologue.org/ > > if you want to know more about any of them. > > > > Please let me know what you think of these ideas, and how we can start > > the process. -- 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 _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel