SJ Chris also recently posted about such related events on the Health mailing list, and I believe he might be going to one/some of them...
best Arjun ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Leonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:54 PM Subject: [Health] Serious Gaming conferences (not what you think) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just came across these interesting conferences. Games for Health Fourth Annual Conference 2008 May 8-9, 2008, Baltimore MD (yes I know it's crazy short notice, but I just came across it) http://www.gamesforhealth.org/index3.html and Games for Change 2008 Fifth Annual Games for Change Festival Parsons the New School for Design in NYC June 3 http://www.gamesforchange.org/conference/2008/index.php and/or pre-festival workshop, June 2 http://www.gamesforchange.org/conference/2008/101.php An OLPC presence at one or both of the conferences below looks like too good an opportunity to pass up for meeting/recruiting other game developers with compatible goals and for showing off the XO as a really cool platform that they should consider porting. I posted the info for "Games for Change" to etoys, devel and games lists. It's still within a reasonable timeframe to organize an "official OLPC" presence for that one and SJ has expressed some interest in that idea. It's less realistic to expect that anyone will be going to Games for Health, but I passed notice along to OLPC Learning Club DC, just in case. In any event, the list of presenters makes for some excellent leads on identifying potential developers/projects with similar goals. There is a certain sad irony in the fact that a number of the games in development seem to be about getting over-nourished kids to put down the game controller and get active when malnutrition is such a great concern for the developing world. That's not to say that a little economic development won't bring all of the ills of the first world to others in time or that exercise messaging isn't suitable in any environment, but I think those particular materials would need substantial reworking for use by OLPC. To a great extent OLPC represents the first time there will be a channel/platform for reaching the developing world with such games, so it's perfectly pragmatic that there has been little work there to date. I very much want to think that some introduction to OLPC's efforts would bring the passion of these folks for electronic health message delivery to bear on a wider world audience. cjl _______________________________________________ Health mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/health On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the update, Ixo! There's a Games for Health event in Baltimore > May 8-9. Did you meet any people there who might like to go? > > http://www.gamesforhealth.org/index3.html > > SJ > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Alan Claver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/28/08 3:57 PM, "Ixo X oxI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > lol. :) > > > > Oh, sorry, you're the sorry looking one.. 8-) > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > support-gang mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Library mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > > -- Arjun Sarwal Intern, One Laptop per Child Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: arjs on irc.freenode.net in #olpc, #olpc-health, #sugar _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
