arjs, Unfortunately, I'm not likely to be able to attend, but having found these, I did think that OLPC (SJ et. al.) should consider an "official presence". I also thought that some of the participants on some of the lists might find them sufficiently interesting to consider attending on their own, and so I pinged a note to SJ and a few lists at about the same time.
Didn't mean to create an echo, but I do think that these present very interesting opportunities to promote XO as platform/channel and possibly to recruit like-minded developers to port/adapt their projects. cjl On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Arjun Sarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
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