All April 1st pranks aside, the world today has forgotten that France was a leader in the pre-OLPC movement in 1981 when the *Centre Mondial Informatique* was brought together by Mitterand, Negroponte, Stallman, Papert, Kay, etc: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_mondial_informatique_et_ressource_humaine
This largely forgotten chapter of history (preceded by much similar work in the USA/UK, with the People's Computer Company's "ComputerTown USA!" centers specifically for children, originating in ~1972) is extensively documented by Harvard's Margo Boenig-Liptsin. She's currently researching the politics of play in the USSR too, for those that want to make contact with her on this important 40++ yearlong history of "OLPC" : http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-03-30-161500-2015-03-30-180000/sts-circle-harvard *OK, please join Lionel Laske for this very real Sugarizer presentation 10AM NYC Time Thursday, talking about the future too!* On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Adam Holt <[email protected]> wrote: > Please join our weekly Thursday public call (10AM NYC Time) with special > guest from Paris: > > Lionel Laske (https://twitter.com/lionellaske) > President of http://olpc-france.org > Founder of http://Sugarizer.org > > He'll explain the evolution of Sugarizer -- while he guides us integrating > this for offline schools using XSCE school servers (in Ghana, Fiji, Haiti, > India, Malaysia...the list is now growing faster that any other year). We > have not begun Sugarizer integration, but all agree now's the time, and > Lionel agrees to help us get this right. Particularly now that XSCE school > servers are being tested on CentOS 7, offering enterprise support/updates > into 2024. > > Please bring your probing questions for Lionel! > > - How compatible is Sugarizer with the wide diversity of legacy (very > old) Android devices we discover in the developing world? > - What specific steps should a volunteer take to improve the language > support of Sugarizer for their own country/region/diaspora? > - How is my Journal protected, by whom, and might a child safeguard > their own copy using something like > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Takeout ? > - What activities should Sugarizer most urgently embrace, to become an > MVP? (Minimal Viable Product aka Most Valuable Player!) > - Truly, how can we help? What would a "complete" Sugarizer ecosystem > look like, in the ideal world? > - Will Sugarzer be offered to actual Facebook users, as well as on > passenger jets seatbacks and in self-driving cars worldwide? > - Or is Sugarizer 100% organic, not interested in Silicon Valley's latest > drone/balloon idolatry > > <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/technology/drones-beaming-web-access-are-in-the-stars-for-facebook.html> > dreams to conquer the 3rd world? > - After MIT provided $100 Bitcoins to ALL students, who crazily spent > all the money flinging $100 laptops around the world, can we now use > Sugarizer to mine more Bitcoin directly (neurologically) from all global > children's brains? > - Rumors fly the President of OLPC France forced his own children to > sign IRB's, creating Sugarizer's untouchably beautiful UX -- hence refining > the slick marketing of child labor we've long-overlooked, to igniting a > movement of billions of Sugarized learneRs not just learneDs? > - Is there a risk kids'll expose Napoleon's latest plan for France > retake Africa-then-the-world (from China) using Sugarizer, in fact > beginning the very Day Before Our Call? > - Could the hidden salary + massive travel stipend of OLPC France's > President be published by Sugar users worldwide, that Very Same Day?? > > *Mark your calendar carefully: that day is coming fast, Wednesday the > first day of the month, the very day before our call, and please nobody > tell China what is coming.* The Truth is more important than the Facts, > and la Cinéma Véritée even more so, on this Je Suis Paristocratic day of > post-parody especially. It cannot be a coincidence that Napoleon rose back > to power exactly 200 years ago, late March 1815...preparing for this very > day? Already trembling in fear of OLPC France's Napoleonic President and > his fearrorist army of volunteers? Super Scary Stuff, but never fear > children: we'll help you write a N.ifty S.ugar A.ctivity that disguises > your voice, as you > *Speak Truth to Power directly, the very next day after.* > Yes that very next day (April 2) we'll recover, I promise (unless his Jacobin > lieutenant <https://twitter.com/bzg2> and Korean propagandist > <https://twitter.com/fleurpellerin> counterattack ;) so keep your powder > dry, *preparing your own very best Sugarizer questions* to add to our > weekly agenda/minutes here, asking the one+only Lionel Laske live during > Thursday's call: > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg > > Best of luck surviving that 1st day of April, to all :-) And thanks for > sending your Skype name or phone number in advance of Thursday's call!! Or > ping backchannel #schoolserver live at that time (10AM NYC Time) on > http://webchat.freenode.net (but stick with pre-Sugarized Freedom Fries > this week, just to be safe) > > -- > Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org ! >
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