On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Jakob Neergaard Hausted (jh1372333) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello grassroots. > > My name is Jakob Neergaard Hausted. I study educational anthropology at the > Danish Educational University (DPU). I'm planning to make an anthropological > fieldwork from September to November 2008 at one of the schools where the XO > is being launched. I'd like to go to Birmingham Alabama, but I don't know who > is in charge in the OLPC project Birmingham. I'm therefore searching for > contacts and co-workers in this area. Some of my objectives in my fieldwork > are to see how the XO influences the people's daily life - students, teachers > and parents as well. How does the XO affect the relations and interactions > between the different actors? How do they use the laptop, and what meaning > does it produce to them? Which learning strategies do the pupils make use of, > and is it possible to say something about the children's educational > strategies? How does the XO affect the teacher's authority and his > educational strategies? This is just some of my thoughts and new questions > will most likely appear in the OLPC project depending on the given context.
Thanks for your efforts and your support. > If there is anybody who's connected to the project I Birmingham I'd like to > hear from you. Looking forward to work with all of you. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Birmingham > Best regards, > > Jakob Neergaard Hausted > > DPU Aarhus, Denmark > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Skype: jakobnh1 > > > > > ________________________________ > > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] på vegne af [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: lø 23-02-2008 18:00 > Til: [email protected] > Emne: Grassroots Digest, Vol 7, Issue 14 > > > > Send Grassroots mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Grassroots digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. OLPC Europe News -- Issue 1 (Chris Hager) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:20:02 +0100 > From: Chris Hager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Grassroots-l] OLPC Europe News -- Issue 1 > To: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hey all, > > This is the first OLPC Europe newsletter, which is supposed to be a > regular (monthly) update on our activities and meetings, as well as > about plans, ideas, developments, and so forth :) You can find more > details on all points here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Europe. > > This issue covers the following topics: > > 1. What is OLPC Europe > 2. Communication > 3. Meetings & Events > 4. Grassroots Organisations > 5. Current Developments > 6. Ways to participate > 7. Software Projects > 8. Next Issue -- Please Contribute :) > > > 1. What is OLPC Europe > Nothing but than a communication layer and a networking platform. The > aim is to make commonication easier, basically between local grassroots, > but also with the MIT. > > This can result in less work for everyone, and in a stronger focus on > our common efforts and goals. We believe that communication has enormous > potential for collaboration on projects and general information > exchange, and also supports smaller grassroot organisations not to get > lost in the mess :) Our written vision can be found here: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Europe/Vision > > At the moment there are around 20 people volunteering for the basic > setup of this platform -- and can be found here: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Europe/Community#Volunteers > > > 2. Communication > Our primary communication channels are: > - Grassroots mailing list: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots > - IRC in #olpc-europe, #olpc-groups on chat.freenode.net > - As there are people involved from all the world, we have regular > IRC-meetings (all 2 weeks). The next takes place on 6. March 2008, 17:00 > UTC (18:00 CET) > - We archive summaries and logs of all the meetings > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Europe/Meetings > - In the last meeting, we agreed to set up [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a > contact point. Mails there are currently being forwarded to Holger, > Bastiaan, and Chris. > > > 3. Meetings & Events > We also try to meet in person, primarily at free software / open source > events across Europe. Events, where someone from OLPC Europe is > participating are listed here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Europe/Events > > The next event is FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developer European > Meeting) in Brussels, lasting from 23. to 24. February. The OLPC event > takes place on Saturday, 23. February, from 15:00 to 17:00 -- room H.3227 > > After that, plenty of people will be at the CeBIT 08 in Hannover, which > lasts from 4. to 9. of March. The OLPC event here is on Saturday, 8. > March, 11:15 a.m. @ LinuxForum > > > 4. Grassroots Organisations > (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Europe/Countries), which feel part of > OLPC Europe: (add yours :) > > * OLPC Austria > * OLPC Belgium > * OLPC Bulgaria > * OLPC Croatia > * OLPC Denmark > * OLPC France > * OLPC Germany > * OLPC Greece > * OLPC Netherlands > * OLPC Poland > * OLPC Russia > * OLPC Switzerland > * OLPC Slovenia > * OLPC Turkey > * OLPC UK > > > 5. Current Developments > > - OLPC France ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_France ) > Nico, Massoud and Florian have been at the Solutions Linux in Paris, > giving a presentation about OLPC and the XO Laptop. Current work include > trying to port sugar to openwrt, making a marvell driver, etc. One cool > project to mention might be USB2SVGA > (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adding_USB_SVGA). Laptops needed! :) > > - OLPC Denmark ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Denmark ) > People from Denmark are forming a local OLPC group at the moment. On > February 2nd 2008, they had a presentation at the education conference > in Copenhagen. Videos Available at the wiki page. > > - OLPC Catalonia ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/olpc-catalonia ) > Jaume Nualart from OLPC Austria (who is from Catalonia and currently > living in Vienna) is giving impulses for the kick-off of OLPC Catalonia. > Catalonia is a Spanish Autonomous Community in the north-east of Spain, > with Barcelona as capital. The first meetings will take place on > march-april 2008, currently collecting people and organizations, mainly > from Barcelona. Soon, there will be a mailing list and also a page in > moviments.net. People involved are: Jaume, Victor Guillam?n and others. > > - OLPC Bulgaria ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Bulgaria ) > Rationales to concentrate effort on Bulgarian education include > > 1. Unsatisfactory results from PISA (www.pisa.oecd.org) > 2. Lack of fruitful use if ICT in Bulgarian primary education > 3. Wide variance in performance by children of different ethnic, > social or economic status. > > Efforts also include translations into Bulgarian, presentations and > promoting the project in the country. > > - OLPC Netherlands ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Netherlands ) > Have currently received 2 XO B4 laptops which went this way: > MIT -> Customs Denmark -> Copenhagen (Jesper, Rut) -> Amsterdam > People from the Netherlands are at FOSDEM. > > - OLPC Russia ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Russia ) > The first OLPC Russia meeting took place on 3, Feb, 2008 in Pereslavl. > A short report in Russian is at > http://community.livejournal.com/ru_olpc/4923.html?mode=reply > > - OLPC Switzerland ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Switzerland ) > Finally received two XO B4 Laptops from Austria on February 14th. This > wiki edit is written with one of them... ;-) Next conference closeby > will be the OpenExpo in Bern (12. and 13. March 2007) > > - OLPC UK ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_UK ) > Currently, only a small number of developers have OLPC hardware in the > UK. The Telepathy system for activity sharing on the OLPC is being > developed in Cambridge, UK, by [Collabora]. The BBC has been covering > the launch of the OLPC laptop. > > > 6. Ways to participate > Feel welcome! The spirit of OLPC includes one core thing: the > community. This includes everyone, from the children and their families > to their teachers and everyone who is collaborating towards the success > of the project. > > Get in touch with local OLPC groups, join the mailing lists and the IRC > channels :) http://wiki.laptop.org <http://wiki.laptop.org/> is the central > web-page for the OLPC > Project and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Europe for the european > activities. > > About participation on software projects > Most projects need a lot more than only programmers. From ideas, > content, testing, translating and organizing, ways to participate > include helping with documentation, artwork, sound, mechanics, ... One > good approach is to first think about what you enjoy doing and what you > are good at -- and then on how to contribute with this to a project > you're interested in. > > Possible first steps: > # Get an overview of current projects > # Think about which project you'd like to support > # Get an overview of that specific project > #* visit the homepage > #* download and run the code > #* think about which part of the project you'd like to work on > # Get in contact > #* say hi in #olpc-europe on irc.freenode.net > #* drop a few lines to someone from the project -- expressing that you > are interested in spending some time to the project, and shortly > describe your field of interest and your experience. A mail-address > usually can be found somewhere on the homepage. > > Projects and ideas can, for example, be found here: [[Software_ideas]], > [[Developers/Projects]], [[Activities]] > > > 7. A few Software Projects from Europe > = bombski = > * About: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/bombski is a bomberman-like > multiplayer game. Fast paced fun, written with very effective pygame > code. Short loading times and minimal cpu load will make it a very good > experience on the xo laptop. The mesh and/or twisted is used for > multiplayer action. > * Status: Name not yet fixed :) . Multiplayer on one machine is working > quite well. Inputs: keyboard, mouse, joystick are working > * Todo: Get started on the multiplayer / networking side of things > * Help Wanted: Basically, from game design, mechanics and programming to > artwork and sound, any help is very welcome! > > = KeyBash = > * About: A game for very young kids -- they enjoy banging on the > keyboard so much -- give some visual (and audio?) feedback -- perhaps > with colors and splashes. Maybe using pygame? > * Status: Initial Brainstorm, and looking for a name :) > * Todo: Thinking about and creating the concept > > = OpenWRT = > * About: http://wiki.openwrt.org <http://wiki.openwrt.org/> is a > Linux-based firmware program for > embedded devices such as residential gateways. A few OpenWRT developers > ported it to the xo-laptop, and it boots from USB key into an X-Server > in something like 15 seconds. > * Status: Kernel 2.6.24 is running, but without graphic support -- > Preparing to work on geting sugar running on .23. > * Todo: Sugar, Kernel .24 graphic support > * Help Wanted: Developers experienced with X-Server, OpenWRT, and/or > other linux distributions. > > = Segregation = > * About: http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/segregation is a game from > the [[Nordic Game Jam]] 08, and won the community award for the best > game. It's written in pygame and a lot of fun. > * Status: Working stable and well on linux and windows; very slow on the > xo laptop. Display size is only 800x450 > * Todo: Speed up things on the xo, enlargen the background to the xo > display size: 1200x825 (900 - 75 from the Toolbar on the top = 825) > * Help Wanted: Optimizing, Improvements > > = xo-get = > * About: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xo-get is a very simple package > installer for the xo laptop. > * Status: Currently working very well > * Todo: there is a long list of improvements to make it perfect :) -- > especially at the PyGTK user interface side of things > * Help Wanted: Programming and design help would be very welcome > > > 8. Next Issue of the Newsletter > The next newsletter is planned to be ready between 10. and 20. of march > 08. There will be plenty of content from FOSDEM and CeBIT, and we > encourage all groups to add infos to the coming newsletters -- to inform > other people what is going on in your group :) > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Europe/Newsletter/Draft > > > > Thanks for all your efforts! > > Chris Hager > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Grassroots mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots > > > End of Grassroots Digest, Vol 7, Issue 14 > ***************************************** > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grassroots mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots > > -- 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 _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
